1. If you’re able to disassemble the laser so that you can see the board, it may very well label the port to determine how it’s supposed to be addressed.
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here is a link to some photos of the board, the lettering on the connectors is gb2,ga2, ga1,gb1 and the port identifier is g1. which of course makes a great load of sense! /s
- You could try these commands in Console to determine what triggers the rotary:
G91
G0 Y+5
G0 Z+5
G0 A+5
I thought that I should test that the roller is actually working so this morning i flashed back the stock firmware and tested in the app Wainlux provided and was able to connect and burn a test on an aluminium can i had laying around, so the rollers do actually work. Having said that flashing back to the GRBL firmware and testing roller functionality was a bust, none of the commands resulted in anything happening apart from the laser moving left to right and back and forth.
The program that Wainlux provided is completely written in Java, I unfortunately don’t know the first thing about cracking it open and seeing how the program works, if you have any pointers for me I would love to hear them, I think the best option moving forward now is finding out how this java app works and the calls it makes to communicate with the roller, then I can possibley reverse engineer something that will get us up and running in LB