Laser was working in Lightburn, but not EZCad. I had to change the driver so I could adjust settings in EZCad. Now the laser works in EZCad, but Lightburn can no longer find it. In the Device Manager, the Laser is in Port_#0003.Hub_#0002. But I can only select PORT #:2 in Lightburn. Find My Laser isn’t finding my laser. I’ve uninstalled and re-installed Lightburn several times. I’ve restarted the computer countless times. Tried manually creating my laser in Lightburn several times. All cables are good, and plugged directly into the computer, not a hub. EZCad and Device Manager recognizes the laser. There’s an audible tone when plugging in or turning the laser on. But the software cannot locate the laser.
Hello, I think you may need to perform a driver swap as described in our documentation:
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Lightburn will not find my laser, I have a Wainlux L8. I am on my trial and have not been able to use it because it will not find it. I am using Windows 11. Any help would be great. I have installed all drivers for my laser
Is this your laser? Wainlux L8 20W Enclosed Laser Engraver
I don’t understand how you would ezcad with this machine.
It’s unfortunate that Wainlux only provides a manual for the X1 on their website:
I suspect you will need to create a device profile using GRBL, not the fiber option.
Did your laser come with a flash drive that has an .lbdev file on it? You should import it into the Devices window when creating the device profile.
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Perhaps yoink the Wainlux into the parallel thread:
That worked, but here’s my next problem. I had to use a different driver to get the laser to work in EZCad. Doing a driver swap made the laser usable in Lightburn, but now it doesn’t work in EZCad. The reason I needed to get the laser to work in EZCad in the first place is because it wasnt’ (and still isn’t) working correctly in Lightburn. I don’t know why, but when using the laser in Lightburn, it doesn’t output anywhere close to what the laser is capable of. 100% power in Lightburn looks like about 10% power in EZCad. EZCad is where I can change the hardware settings of the laser, so I do need that. Basically, doing the driver swap in Lightburn makes my very powerful, very expensive laser almost unusable. I can’t figure out why that is. It seems that in Lightburn, I can’t use the driver that works in EZCad. And that’s a very big problem for me.
Maybe start over… If your laser came with easy cad it normally has an usb with easycad including the right settings. These settings you import in Lightburn so it knows the right settings too. So find the config file and import it and you should be set. Normally when you install the device in lightburn it asks for the file too.
Did that several times. Even did it on a new computer, so it was completely fresh. Still having the same issues. Either one EZCad or Lightburn will work, but not at the same time, with the same driver. I used the same config file as well. I can’t figure this out.
I believe that is correct operation. I’ve seen other threads saying this. LightBurn even has a video in docs describing how to swap drivers back and forth.
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