Laser was firing but won't any more

LightBurn Software Questions
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I’ve been using my 60 watt laser with Lightburn just fine for months now but starting the with last job the laser won’t fire. I can fire a pulse from the ruida controller though so seems software related. I’ve rebooted the computer and the laser but the problem still persists. I’ve checked the device settings and Laser 1 is True. If anyone has some suggestions I’d appreciate them. I’m using version 1.0.0.4 of lightburn Thanks

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When you say the laser doesn’t fire, do you mean that if you send a job from LightBurn the laser head moves around but doesn’t turn on the laser or something else?

A few other questions:

  1. are you using start button or send button from LightBurn?
  2. have you tried running a job from the controller?
  3. have you tried with RDWorks? Any difference? Trying to determine if this is indeed a software issue.
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I’ve tried using both the start and send buttons. The head goes through the motions but doesn’t fire the laser. If I hit the pulse button on my controller it fires. I have not tried RDWorks but I will do that now.
EDIT:
Tried the RD file and the same thing happens. Head goes through the motions but the laser doesn’t fire. The weirdest thing is that I’ve been using without issues for a long time. My settings are 50 mm/s and 15% power, so it’s not because I set those too low. I’m stumped.

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Based on this result likely something on the laser side or configuration side.

Have you tried at a higher power setting? Maybe the tube is getting fatigued or a power issue. But curious why the pulse button works. Maybe check the wiring to make sure something hasn’t worked its way loose or frayed.

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It turned out to be something Lightburn didn’t like about the jpg I was using. Tried a different one and everything works fine now. Thanks for trying to help

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