Simulating test button on duet
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Hi, on my old 80w laser, test button on power supply not working any more. Probably due to having an old 80w tube.
I have written a sample script to handle test fire, it is moving the nozzle 1 mm away and meanwhile test fire is being shot.
But I wonder, is there any way to simulate test fire without moving the nozzle. Because if laser beam hitting the nozzle with my script you can not identify.
Thank you
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@aytact when you say you have written script to handle the test fire, what so you mean, a gcode macro or something else?
and by simulating the test fire, can you explain what the test fire actually is supposed to do?
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@T3P3Tony while saying script, I mean gcode marcro.
Test fire or with the other name sending pulse is used while adjusting the mirror alignments. With sending test fire, you are checking are you hitting dead centre on 1st mirror, 2nd mirror and 3rd mirror. And as a last step, to test nozzle exit - for detecting are you hitting any side walls of nozzle or not.
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@aytact ok, from a control system perspective, what is the test fire doing that you want to change. Why not have the gcode macro you wrote not move if you don't want it to move?
