Trouble with rotary attachment

[LasermanSI (Tim Maselj)]

Greetings fellow laser enthusiasts!

I’ve bought a chinese laser last year, and in this time, I’ve gotten the basics down pretty well. I decided it is time to try out the rotary axis that I got with the machine, but I just cannot seem to get it to work.

At the moment, I am using an USB to get my files to my machine, in order to cut them (making a file, saving as RD file, then transferring with an USB to my machine). I am planning on getting a dedicated workstation PC for the machine, but I can’t tell when that’s going to be, and I would really like to use the rotary now, if it’s at all possible. Does anyone know how I could go around to doing this?

I’ve tried setting up the rotary setup in Lightburn, but when I click on it a second time, I see that it doesn’t remember the settings I’ve put into it, and if I try to run it anyways, the rotary doesn’t turn.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

[LasermanSI (Tim Maselj)]

Right, I’ve gotten down to the root of the problem, and fixed it. For all my boasting about mastering the basics, I found the problem was in a loose connector. Works like a charm now.

If the moderators wish to remove this post, go ahead, I figured I’d let it up as a lesson for others, to always go troubleshoot the most basic of things.