Low power for zeroing

[JVL (Jan VanderLinden)]

How do I set my laser to low power so I can jog the machine to my cross hair for zeroing the X and Y axis?

[JaredH (Jared Hooper)]

What kind of laser you have would help get an answer.

[JVL (Jan VanderLinden)]

Thanks for the reply.
I have the JTech 7 watt

[LightBurn (Oz)]

How do I turn on my diode at low power to focus it or frame a job?

Diode lasers often don’t have a red-dot pointer like CO2 lasers do, so it is often useful to enable them at low power for focusing or framing. (Please do NOT do this if you have a CO2 laser, as the beam is invisible and this could blind you or start a fire) In LightBurn, go to Edit > Device Settings, or click here: [image] Turn on the ‘Enable Laser Fire Button’ switch (make it green): [image] Quit LightBurn and re-run it. You will now have two new controls in the Move window. A …

[JVL (Jan VanderLinden)]

WOW.
I think that’s what I’ve been looking for.
Thank you very much

[LightBurn (Oz)]

If you can’t find something that you think should be there, please do ask - sometimes it will already exist and we can help you find it, but if it doesn’t I’m always interested in ideas for new features.

[JVL (Jan VanderLinden)]

Thank you for the response.
I am currently in the shop and trying it out.
No matter what % of power I set it on, it will not fire.

[LightBurn (Oz)]

• Which version of LightBurn are you running?
• What firmware are you running in your laser?
• What is the value of $30 in your firmware settings? (type $$ in the console and press enter)

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

I provided you a link in a different thread, to which your reply was polite but inconclusive.

Newbie here with lots of questions

There is a specific section of the JTech Documentation covering installation and firmware updating for the X Carve. Scroll mid-way down until you see a section that starts, Set Up Your Machine – X Carve Ok, now that you have downloaded Lightburn software, we can get started with the rest of the setup. When you install the Lightburn software, you might see Windows trying to protect you. Click on the bottom “Run Anyway” button to install it. The X Carve has some things you need to change t…

Did you successfully go through the entire process provided by JTech? All of the questions you are asking are covered in that document. What was the result when doing the things explained in that document?

[JVL (Jan VanderLinden)]

@LightBurn
Just got back to my shop.
It looks like i have GRBL 1.0c
Lightburn 0.9.11
$30=1000

[JVL (Jan VanderLinden)]

@Rick
I started to go through the instructions.
It looks like I have to upgrade my X controller to GRBL 1.1g or better
I’m very nervous in messing around with doing that.
I don’t want top screw something up.

[JVL (Jan VanderLinden)]

So im following the instructions line by line.
Trying to upgrade GRBL
This is the message I get.

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

This is a process that JTech designed, tested and released as their publication. I suggest you reach out to them as they are most familiar with their own process. Once you have been able to correctly assemble and configure the hardware and firmware as designed by the manufacture, we can then help you set up and utilize LightBurn.

[JVL (Jan VanderLinden)]

A big shout out and thank you to Jay Johnson from JTech.
He actually called me up and we walked through the set up process.
It came out perfectly.
Now I feel that I can finally move forward and explore what lightburn has to offer.
To be sure, there will be many more newbie questions to follow.