Laser will not move in LB but will in Grbl

LightBurn Hardware Compatibility
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I just bought a Sculpfun S30 Pro Max with the extension kit. I’m brand new at this so bear with me. Trying to learn LightBurn I used the ‘move arrows’ to get the head to move around the space. I was using 1.2.04. All was fine. Then up popped 1.3 so I downloaded that. From then on the laser would not move with the arrows no the frame button.

I moved the laser manually and clicked ‘home’ and it went home so I know the PC and laser are communicating.

I downloaded GRBL and it moved just fine.

I uninstalled 1.3 and reinstalled 1.2.04 but no change. Also, the control panel still recognized the name I gave to my laser which tells me it was not a clean uninstall; that there are still some files somewhere.

Any suggestions or ideas will be gratefully welcomed.

Thanks in advance.

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Are you sure it’s not actually moving but instead just moving slowly or in small increments? Change speed in Move window and/or change move distance.

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Ahhhh, thank you very much. (Told you I was new! :grin:) It was set at .39mm distance and 39mm speed. I have changed it to 20 mm distance and 3,000 mm speed. What are “normal” or traditional settings for speed and distance?

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This is more about what your machine can bear and what’s practical for your needs. I believe normally this defaulted to 6000 mm/min but there is no correct speed.

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And what would you say the default position would be for distance?

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My preference would be for that to be a directly correlated to how you have your design setup. I generally work in millimeters. So I’d probably set that to 1mm. That would allow shift-button press to be 10mm and ctrl-button press to be .1mm so gives you a relatively good range of values.

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Thank you. I will try that. Appreciate all the help today. :+1:

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