midnight
Kevin,
thanks for the feedback.
Currently we're thinking about implementation of a generic laser controller
plug-in where you can set these commands manually. When no reaction on the
lasers response is necessary this would work without problems.
Just for my personal interest: what laser are you using? May be it worth to have
a laser type specific plug-in too...
Kind regards
Jim
On 29 January 2013 at 04:56 Kevin Criqui <kcriqui(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Jim,
That would be great. Right now I open a terminal emulator and type the
commands by hand. There are a few commands needed to get the laser
ready after being powered on and then one command before and after each
mark. I can imagine it being useful to have the ability to read and act
on the response from the laser, but that is not a requirement.
Here are the commands needed at power on to turn on the laser in standby
mode
c1:2560 [set diode current to 25.6A]
m3 [set system to standby mode]
d1 [turn on diode]
before each mark, I send the command
m0 [set system to run mode]
and after each mark
m3 [set system to standby]
Commands that produce a response which could be useful include
?c1 [returns diode current]
?t1 [returns diode actual temperature]
?x31 [returns diode set temperature]
?x61 [returns diode hours]
?p [returns laser power (on some systems)]
I'm not much of a coder, but I am more than happy to test and report my
findings.
Kevin
On 1/27/2013 10:24 PM, Jim Hart wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> there is an interface available that gives the possibility to link a laser
> controller to the project which can be used to send commands to a laser.
> Currently only the interface exists but no related plug-in that could handle
> commands to be sent. That's simply because nobody requested it until now ;-)
>
> So we would add a generic serial interface plug-in for controlling the laser
> for
> you. So what would you need exactly:
>
> - a possibility to choose and configure the serial port
> - a possibility to send a freely configurable ASCII (?) command to the laser
> at
> the beginning and end of a marking cycle
> - what additional commands could be useful/imaginable here?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>> On 28 January 2013 at 10:48 Kevin Criqui <kcriqui(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm working with a marking machine that has a Spectra Physics
>> T20-BL10-106Q laser and a Scanlab RTC4 controlling a Scanlab scanhead.
>> Everything is working pretty well, though I still have lots to learn.
>> One thing I'd like to do that I haven't figured out yet is to issue a
>> command to the laser over the PC's serial port at the beginning and end
>> of each marking job. Specifically, I want to send the command to put
>> the laser in run mode at the beginning and standby mode at the end. Is
>> there any way to do this?
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