Hi, folks. I’ve been scouring forums and the net today and have not found a satisfactory solution to this problem. I went to pains to replace the Monport Reno Pro’s TL-A1 controller with the aforementioned Ruida and in general things are working well with Lightburn. The major exception is I am unable to get my roller rotary to work properly.
I have it plugged in to the Y-axis as prescribed and I can enable the rotary in Lightburns and get it to turn when the test button is pressed. Hooray. Here’s where it goes to hell. Regardless of what number I enter for “Steps per rotation” in the rotary dialog or “Pulses per rotation“ in Machine Settings, the amount of rotation is always the same. These numbers share the same value, by the way. I’ve checked it by writing and reading them back and forth from the controller. I’ve tried resetting and powercycling the controller between changes. Still no difference in rotary behavior whether the number is 100 (apparently the minimum) or 5000.
Thanks for any suggestions. I’m a little concerned that this controller swapping journey has been for nothing.
I am hoping someone responds to your post, I have same situation basically. I have switched everything in LB to inches and when I tested mine with rotary is same as picture, (they use for roller type shown in setup). Since I am using Inches when I change my steps does not make any difference if I use 100” to 174”. I have like you checked all my settings again and again but when I run a rectangle test it leaves a gap of about 1.125” . If I try and go higher than 174” and run test it does not rotate at all. I have done several engraving/burns on a couple of tumblers and they look great but know they have to be slightly off since test will not close the gap. My Ruida controller is RDC6445G9 EC.
Well, this is sort of funny. I’ve gone to great lengths to replace my Topwisdom controller with a Ruida 64432G only to have the problem described above. So I decided to try another Ruida controller. I found that even with the 8445S, when I hit the test button, no amount of changes to the steps-per-rotation setting make any difference. I sure was disappointed!
So, I exited the rotary settings dialog and tried the framing function on a rectangle I knew to be the circumference of my tumbler. It worked. I think we assume the test button will pay attention to those settings, but it appears not to. So now I wonder if there was ever a problem with the Topwisdom controller after all.
@tjcoy747 Might want to just ignore the test button altogether.
