Please help a newbie, i'm going crazy

[rebosprj (Robert Girard)]

I have a titoe cnc 3018. w/5050 power laser, i have grbllaser which i can burn with perfectly. light burn runs, lights up but just not bright enough to burn. Please help, Thank you in advance

$0=10 $1=25 $2=0 $3=2 $4=0 $5=0 $6=0 $10=1 $11=0.010 $12=0.002 $13=0 $20=0 $21=0 $22=0 $23=0 $24=25.000 $25=500.000 $26=250 $27=1.000 $30=1000 $31=25 $32=1 $100=1200.000 $101=800.000 $102=800.000 $110=1000.000 $111=1000.000 $112=600.000 $120=500.000 $121=500.000 $122=500.000 $130=500.000 $131=400.000 $132=200.000 ok

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

This is worth review. Check to ensure the ‘S-value max’ (‘Device Settings’) value and you $30 match, and check here in the document below. “if you ask the controller to go faster than it’s allowed to, it will reduce the output power to compensate”.

Configuring a 3018 CNC (or other CNC-based laser) for use with LightBurn

The summary: Turn on Laser Mode to get rid of the travel lines You’re trying to move too fast, which is why you don’t get enough power You need to zero the machine 3018’s are pre-configured for use as CNC machines, not lasers, so their settings and speeds will likely need to be changed to give you acceptable results with LightBurn. To see the existing settings, you can type $$ into the console in LightBurn and press enter, or go to Edit > Machine Settings. Both are showing the same values, b…

[LightBurn (Oz)]

Your maximum machine speed is set to 500 mm/minute, which is about 8.3 mm/sec. If you attempt to go faster, it won’t, but it will lower the power for you to give you the exact amount of burn you requested.

LaserGRBL by default uses ‘constant power’ mode, which is the same as LightBurn’s ‘GRBL-M3’ device. If you use that, it will give you full power even when you ask for impossible speeds, but it will cause different problems, so you are much better off working within the range of settings your machine allows.