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General Mach Discussion / Re: Turn laser on and off for reference.

« on: December 31, 2019, 07:02:12 AM »

Thanks tweakie.
I was reading over post #3 which led me to the other original posts Because I signal active low and down the rabbit hole I went. I am completely new to this so I have to go out and research just to comprehend some of the things you where referencing. Moving to Mach4 sounds much easier. I may just manually zero the laser in the meantime in Mach3 until I get the Mach4 trial setup and learn it. Seems like it’s for the best that I make the switch.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Turn laser on and off for reference.

« on: December 29, 2019, 09:29:47 PM »

Ok Scratch the previous post. I Walked through all my Settings one more time and managed to find that I had a step pin wrong in the Mach3 set up. M3 and M5 commands are now working however my new issue is regardless ofMDI entry:
M3 S001 or S100 I get full power every time.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Turn laser on and off for reference.

« on: December 29, 2019, 08:20:46 PM »

Ok still not working. I’m wondering if it’s something in the way I have my Mach3 set up.
I use a warp9 ESS and a G540 for control.
I have the two TTL wires from my laser running to port3 pin 17 and a ground pin on port3. The rest of the machine is controlled through port1 on the ESS and sent through to the G540.
M3/M4/M5 do not activate the laser I think because I have M10/M11 checked in my ESS plugin settings which to my understanding disables Mach3 settings.
Is this the case?
Would it make a difference if I connected the laser direct to the G540 port#1 output #2 instead of using port #3 on the ESS for just the laser?

Any ideas?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Turn laser on and off for reference.

« on: December 23, 2019, 05:43:10 PM »

Thanks guys I’m going to look into putting it in a script now. Need to read all about that. I guess I didn’t realize I had to run it as a G code. I was thinking it may be something native to Mach3 that I could use as a command directly in MDI. Thanks again now I got some reading to do..

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Turn laser on and off for reference.

« on: December 22, 2019, 07:39:58 PM »

Is there anyway to assign G code to a on/off button in Mach3?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Turn laser on and off for reference.

« on: December 22, 2019, 02:11:57 PM »

Thanks. I looked at that but I think it’s above my comprehension level right now. Just starting to learn laser side of things. And admittedly not really well-versed in Mach3 either. Been doing lots of reading so I’m learning quite a bit but I haven’t figured anything out yet with regards to simple on and off through Mach3 control. Is this a downside of using the M 10/11 commands? Seems like it should be very simple to call for the laser to turn on at a certain percentage of power.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Turn laser on and off for reference.

« on: December 21, 2019, 10:12:38 PM »

if my m11/10 only works at first movement how do I trigger my output 1"laser" at 2% PWM until I call for trigger off again? hmm...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Turn laser on and off for reference.

« on: December 21, 2019, 09:20:20 PM »

I should follow up by saying I have tried M3 S2 in MDI no luck.

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General Mach Discussion / Turn laser on and off for reference.

« on: December 21, 2019, 09:06:18 PM »

Hey guys I feel like this should be an easy fix but it’s not working for some reason for me. So I am using a ethernet smooth stepper with Mach3
And my laser is working great using M10/M11. All I am looking to do is turn the laser on at say 2% percent to jog it to my zero position for reference and then shut it off after I find my home zero position. My screen set  already has a button for laser on I just need to figure out how to trigger the laser on at 2% power and keep it on until I click the button again. I can use screen4 to edit the existing button but I’m not sure what commands to call to turn on the laser.
Any ideas?