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I have designed and built a large 80w laser that uses the Ruida RDC644XG controller. I have been commisioning it and now have the wiring generally checked through and so far so good. I have addressed issues with bubbles in the laser tube water and sorted many other little niggles. It now sits there humming away nicely, but inert. I designed the machine from scratch but as a professional mechanical designer that was arguably the easy part for me.

I now have the task that I have dreaded as it is outside my comfort zone. I have to get the stepper motors moving and conduct other setups for table limits etc. Unfortunately I have swamped my brain and can't now think straight. I'm hoping there is someone out there that can list, in outline only, the steps I need to take. E.g. do I need to connect the machine to my pc to conduct that initial setup or is it done simply using the limited display on the controller itself? Is that by an ethernet connection or can it be by USB? I have really stalled here and need your help.

A few simple steps outlining the basics that I can follow up on is all I ask.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Can't see how to edit my post. I meant USB not Bluetooth.

Les Brown wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2019 Can't see how to edit my post. I meant USB not Bluetooth.

I amended your post

I think you are going to need someone with the same hardware configuration to download to you their las r system config files....so you will have list your hardware configuration

Connect the PC to the Ruida via USB. Ensure that the PC and the Ruida can communicate with each other.
Then you can go about changing settings, etc. One easy thing to test is to see that you can read and reset the "laser on time". See section 3.2 and 4.11.04 in The Manual.

You'll need to set up the Vendor Parameters, because YOU are the Vendor See The Manual, section 4.11.

Thanks guys.

My post was prompted by severe frustration and overload of other events yesterday. Today is a whole new day and I'll be trying again. I haven't tried a USB connection but will do that now.

Thanks again.