I recently bought the Monport revo 45 and am still trying to figure the settings out. I am cutting 1/8 inch Baltic Birch plywood and with one file the setting for cutting something is different from the one I am trying to do now, I can cut the first one in one cycle and the second one I can’t cut through even with 2 passes and the speed is slower and the power is much higher. If anyone can tell me what I am doing wrong it would be greatly appreciated
Greetings and welcome to the forum. If I am understanding you correctly, you cut one piece of 1/8" birch ply with some settings and then a different piece of birch ply with the same settings and it is not cutting?
I think it’s got a Ruida controller in it, which makes me question how fast you are attempting to cut and what your minimum/maximum power is set. Does it have an analog mA meter?
Is this new? Has it always done this?
Can you post a photo or something, such as the results.
Lightburn has a very good troubleshooting list.
It is 2 different files, same thickness of plywood. I turned it down to 10mm/sec with 80% power, 10% min. power. For the second file and I have to run it twice and it still doesn’t cut all the pieces out fully. The first file I can run the cut once at 20mm/sec and 60% power 4% minimum and it cuts it out fully. I am using Lightburn pro. Will try to attach photos tonight
You are running at slow speeds, I’d suggest you check the start speed set in the controller or set it to a lower value. Mine is set to 5mm/s.
If the head speed is at or below the start speed, it will only produce minimum power.
I just looked at the mfg web site and then the user manual and from that it says it’s a GRBL based controller.
Yeah, I’m seeing GRBL as well for the controller. Screenshots of the cut layer setting for each file would be helpful.
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kinda a ‘shotgun’ method of testing would be to open the file which works, importing the design from the previous file and paste it in while then removing the original design and then saving this file as a testfile.lbrn2 name. See if it cuts as you expect since it shouldn’t have changed any of the original cut parameters.
Another option would be to first open the design which does not work, select all and copy then open the file which works, paste the design you’d copied, delete the original design and then save this design as testfile.lbrn2 and see if it works. Again, you are using the ‘working’ file configurations with the design which seems to be having problems.
This eliminates something in the file being misconfigured.
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Ok will give it a try and post my results, got home late yesterday and didn’t have a chance to do anything and had to clear some space in the garage for the cat because of the incoming snow and ice
For some reason I thought it was the pro version.. Sorry about that.