I purchased the ACR Full kit from all-tek systems about a month ago.(http://www.all-teksystems.com/product-page/162fea05-fb48-56a7-8ec1-38a6200b7fe3). I can tell you that Scott Marshall makes a great product! Super nice guy… great support…he helped me do some rewiring over the phone to get my board powered. I had purchased one of the newer K40 machines with the upgraded control board so the power supply was a little different than he was use to.
I am new to all this so please bear with me. When I plug the motor connector into the “Y motor” on the board (See photo) as stated in the directions the motors acted strange. From within laserweb3 when I jogged I could only click the X axis button and the movement was diagonal instead of left and right. So yesterday I plugged the motor connector into the “X motor” connector and now the motors work fine!
The only problem I have now if the laser will not fire in laserweb. When I press the test fire button on the K40 the laser fires. When I run a job in laserweb I see the head move around correctly buy no laser fire.
There are the settings the directions say to put into laserweb. I wonder if moving the connector to X Motor caused an issue:
Gcode Setup Page
Start G-Code
G28
Laser ON Command
M3
Laser OFF Command
M5
PWM Max S Value
255
Homing Sequence
G28
End G-Code
M5
G28
Travel Moves (mm/s)
30
Anyone have any ideas until I can get ahold of Scott?
Also if you are starting LaserWeb as node server-smoothie then you don’t need laser On and Laser Off but for reference in smoothie is G1 (on) G0 (off). Unless @Scott_Marshall has some other magic in his ACR
I had read that PWM Max Value should be set to 1 with Smoothieboards today. Might be a mistake in the documentation… I will try it when I get home. Would PWM set wrong stop the laser from firing?
No I have never got the laser to for from the controller+Don Kleinschnitz. The laser does fire from the test laser button on the front panel so at least I know the laser works.
@Scott_Marshall Tagging you here so you can see if there is anything you know of that will be causing @Carle_Bounds ’ issue.
@Carle_Bounds A thought, since you mention the issue is that when you click X jog buttons it moves diagonally & when you click Y jog it does nothing (?) I wonder is your ribbon cable plugged in the correct way? I believe the ribbon controls the X-axis stepper whilst the plug controls the Y-axis stepper (if I recall correct).
If pwm set to 1 does not work I can try changing the orientation of the ribbon cable. Can changing the direction of the ribbon cable burn anything up? :\
@Carle_Bounds I can’t guarantee changing ribbon cable direction won’t kill something, so might be best to wait for someone more knowledgeable in that sort of thing to weigh in on it.
