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Hi all
here is the scenario:
if I have the laser working engraving or cutting, sometimes I need to adjust speed or power,
I pause the machine select enter then select what I wana adjust , make the adjustment , press enter and start.
now sometimes it takes a while till the machine goes with the new settings but sometimes it doesn't take it at all then I start again with adjustment and if I am lucky it works , mostly not.
the only solution then is to make the adjustments in lasercad and reload but then the machine starts from the beginning and
the previous already done area gets a second work out and this could get expensive.
now the question is did someone has the same experience and found a solution or maybe marco could ask the programmer how to solve it.
I use the lasercad version 6.77, I try this with 6.46 and all accepted OS updates, still the same
greetings
waltfl

Walt:

If you Pause a job and resume, the chance is that it will not match start right on the same sport it stopped. I've discussed this issue long time ago with the programmer. He said that due to the limitation of the hardware, it was not prevenable. I was suggesting him to add "FPGA" microprocessor to assist the controller for multi-tasking input/output but he seems not considered it in the mean time. It is common issue to most DSP per Li.

I'm curious if it happen the same to other brand controller like the Epilog or Universe. Those controller card cost over thousand and more so they should perform better to some extend, I guess

Marco

I ran Universal and LaserPro lasers at my previous job and neither one could do adjustments on the fly like that. If you needed to change the speed or power you had to start over.

Maybe newer versions do but I haven't ever seen it.

Hi toasty
ok it worked in the past nor always but mostly at least at the second try with the power, now power does not do it at all.
I figured out with the speed I have to wait a few seconds after making speed adjustments then it works.
greetings
waltfl

Toasty wrote:I ran Universal and LaserPro lasers at my previous job and neither one could do adjustments on the fly like that. If you needed to change the speed or power you had to start over.

Maybe newer versions do but I haven't ever seen it.

waltfl wrote:ok it worked in the past nor always but mostly at least at the second try with the power, now power does not do it at all.
I figured out with the speed I have to wait a few seconds after making speed adjustments then it works.

I'll have to try it on my machine. It would be a nice feature to have available.

I can't think of too many circumstances when I would need it since a change in power or speed would ruin anything I'm engraving but I suppose it could be handy while cutting, especially if you realize you're using more power than you need or running too slow.

Hi
one more thing if I format the memory before downloading the file to the machine the speed adjustment works up to 200mm/s perfect,
the power adjustment the power 1 and power 1 minimal need to be adjusted right after another before starting again.
greetings
waltfl

Toasty wrote:

waltfl wrote:ok it worked in the past nor always but mostly at least at the second try with the power, now power does not do it at all.
I figured out with the speed I have to wait a few seconds after making speed adjustments then it works.

I'll have to try it on my machine. It would be a nice feature to have available.

I can't think of too many circumstances when I would need it since a change in power or speed would ruin anything I'm engraving but I suppose it could be handy while cutting, especially if you realize you're using more power than you need or running too slow.