Wasn’t what I thought it was, just a burned RF jack. Cleaned up and put back together.
Did a few basic tests and everything was fine, but I didn’t have time for a full battery of testing. So, please message if you have any problems. Please be as specific as possible.
The problem I was on the lookout for was uncommanded firing, noisily, whether running or not. The interlocks- opening the lid- will still guarantee the tube turns off. This could be explained by the burned jack and no prob occurred after it was cleaned up for as long as I tested it, but I’d like to be watching it carefully for the next few days. If the tube fires like that again, we need to shut down the machine and unplug it from the wall, but I don’t think it will.
I did change out a component. I’m not sure if it was the prob. I did some test cutting and it was performing fine, I’m wondering if it’s just not going to show up when I’m looking or what.
Is the red laser still down? I signed up to use it today at 12pm but I am getting an “out of range” when turning it on. I tried turning it off, resetting the breakers, and unplugging it but the issue persists.
Not sure what’s going on. I made sure to turn off for 20 minutes and then pressed on the silver button again but it’s still giving me out of range. I tried rebooting the computer again without any luck.
Yes I tried the immediate cycle and am still getting an “out of range” error. If the issue can be fixed by tomorrow that would be great because I am making a part due Wednesday, but if not I might switch to the Blue laser. Thanks!
Hi all, I finally got it working – the stroke thickness should’ve been set to 0.001". I apologize for the hassle, but thank you @EricP for your help!
-Matt
“out of range” on the display is not a hard drive prob. It’s the “no signal” message that always shows up initially but sometimes stays after booting if the display didn’t sync. The system is actually running underneath and responds to button presses, but no video.
Rebooting will fix that prob
Right, I got a message earlier from Eric. I need to see for sure what it’s doing here, it’s specific to one of the tubes and not the other. It can always be used with one tube, but setting it to use one tube from the user panel will not actually accomplish this.
I wasn’t able to reproduce it before, so I’ll investigate asap
OK I can reproduce this problem- not sure what this prob is, I will get back to this soon
I have that tube disabled for the time being, so it’s cutting with half the normal power for Red (same power as Blue is normally). It will definitely work ok this config.
Because the red dot pointer normally sources from that tube, the red dot may not be visible. Please do not go into the config menu and set “Red Dot Pointer” to “ON”. That means “red dot only, no cutting laser”. It will not cut, and that config setting is persistent, it will still be left in red dot-only if powered down and back up.
Hey I was doing some cutting on the red laser at half speed and it quit cutting the vectors and was firing randomly. I was testing it for my class tonight, but it is not working properly so I do not know what we should do. I have always said that since the classes are every 2 weeks and we never know when the laser will work we should just go ahead and show them how it is supposed to work, but the red laser has been down so much lately that I am not coming here that often and dont rely on it for any of my needs. I included a photo the little dots are not in the original.
