My 4060 laser has a Lunyee B1 controller. This controller doesn’t appear to work with K40 whisperer in rotary mode. I need help to find a alternative controller to replace the B1 controller. I am happy to continue using K40 whisperer. The laser hardware is not compatible to RUIDA. Any help would be appreciated.
If it’s this controller it should work with the basic core version of Lightburn as it’s a grbl controller.
Sorry I don’t think I can use Lightburn on my machine, I believe it needs a major overhaul of all the electric circuits from what I have read. To do a major wiring job is beyond my skill set. Will this controller work with K40 whisperer and allow me to use the rotary mode?
If the posted controller is the one you have, it’s grbl, so it should work with Lightburn.
Have you tried it?
No, K40 Whisperer works only with the Lihuiyu controllers:
Supported Controller Boards
Only boards that work with LaserDRW will work with K40 Whisperer. The boards that work with K40 Whisperer are made by Lihuiyu. (Moshi boards will not work)
To see which board you have you can go to “Properties” from the LaserDRW (or CorelDraw) Engraving Manager window and look at which board is selected for the “Mainboard” option. You can also look at the markings on the controller board. (The controller board is the circuit board the USB cable plugs into)Controller Boards Known to Work with K40 Whisperer:
6C6879-LASER-M3 (M3 Nano: For M3 Nano use the LASER-M3 board setting)
6C6879-LASER-M2 (M2 Nano: This is the default board setting))
6C6879-LASER-B1
6C6879-LASER-M1
6C6879-LASER-M
6C6879-LASER-B
6C6879-LASER-B2
6C6879-LASER-A
HT Master5 (use LASER-M2 setting)
HT Master6 (use LASER-M2 setting)
HT-XEON5 (use LASER-M2 setting)
HT-XEON-DRV (use LASER-M2 setting)
There are other options for boards running grbl or otherwise supporting gcode.
Lightburn is commercial. LaserWeb is open source. MeerK40t supports almost everything except ruida DSP controllers. And there are others.
But K40 Whisperer in particular supports only the Lihuiyu controllers.
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Just out of curiosity, why?
Because they use a different protocol that K40 Whisperer doesn’t support.
I don’t know whether anything other than MeerK40t has third-party support for Moshi boards.
There also aren’t that many still out there as far as I can tell. My recollection is that @Tatarize (RIP) had to ask around a bit to find one to use to develop that support.
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My main concern is which Lihuiyu boards if any supports the rotary laser mode. When using K40 Whisperer. Are there other controllers that have the same electrical connections as the Lihuiyu boards. I dont want to use LaserDrw.
Most people who have posted here about the rotary mode just swap out the connection to the Y stepper for the stepper on the rotary, when they are using the rotary.
You said “doesn’t appear to work” but no details about what doesn’t work, so those who have a similar laser probably can’t help much. I don’t have a laser supported by K40 Whisperer, so I obviously can’t help with direct knowledge; what I know is from reading what has been posted on this site.
Thanks for trying to help me. My laser works fine in X Y and Z axis. But following the rules to hook up the rotary roller system doesn’t work in a rotary motion.
Disconnect the Y axis, plug in external rotary attachment. Change to rotary mode in K40 whisperer and adjust steps per minute for stepper rotation. Stepper rotates, and I stop rotation onset up by operating left rear stop switch. Activate the program to engrave my engraving. Laser fires up and completes engraving but the Y axis rotates at full step speed not the reduced speed. What ever I try y axis rotates at full stepper speed when it should be rotating at half speed. Basically the K40 Whisperer is not talking to the controller to reduce speed on the Y axis when rotary function is operating. Sorry long winded
@Scorch — does this sound like it’s just a bug?
@sundowner
K40 Whisperer scales the image data sent to the laser controller in rotary mode. However, it does so at the expense of an error in the speed. If the rotary scaling is small the effect is not noticable. With large scaling factors you will get y-axis (rotary) speeds that are actually vastly higher or lower than what is commanded. This is true for all of the boards supported by K40 Whisperer. Using only “raster engraving” in rotary mode works well because the laser is never firing when the y-axis is moving.
(There is not a way to set the steps per unit length on the Lihuiyu controller boards.)
Scorch
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I decided to go with Lightburn wired up the 4 axis controller (want to add a router at some time in the future). I am stuck finding the correct pins on my new Lunyee controller for the laser control wires from the transformer 24V to the the controller and the return wires from controller to the PSU