Does Smoothieware even support “power levels” so to speak? Smoothie only has a laser_module_pin – and that’s the fire pin. I’m sitting here thinking I need to hook up another PWM to the power input, and I can’t even find the relevant setting. Am I missing something?
Smoothieware uses power settings from 0 to 1, and this is generated in this case by LW. So G0 will only move and G1 will move and fire at the generated power level. Is this what you mean @ThantiK
Sorry. My Klingon dictionary has not arrived yet
+Peter van der Walt, thanks! Looks like this doesn’t come in the config.txt by default (or didn’t in mine)
I’m having a hard time figuring out which modules are available though. Or how to determine what modules are loaded, etc… It’s simply because I’m new to the smoothieware way of things.
+Peter van der Walt rofl, that page is virtually blank.
Ok, I get what’s going on now. I was using the PWM pin as a fire pin. “switch” can be…anything. You just define your own G/M codes and a pin for those codes. So the switch you added is the “fire” pin, and what I’ve been using as the fire pin is now the PWM pin. That’s what got me.
+ThantiK sorry if I was the origin of the confusion (blue box guide)
Honestly, I still haven’t gotten this to work. I did the switch addition, and for some reason LaserWeb (original) added an M3 after pausing and clearing the queue and unpausing – causing my laser to constantly fire. I haven’t been able to really work it out yet; I have a new level shifter that I’m hoping will solve things, and I’m going to unwire the endstops from the level shifter since I found out the LPC was 5v tolerant on those lines.