24w jtech learning curve

[Stefan-H (Stefan Hampden)]

I’ve not used v-carve’s laser plug in, but in getting my j-tech - 44w setup in light burn I was surprised that things were not burning as fast as I thought they would. after a couple of weeks I learned that default "S-value max " setting in Lightburn was 255. While the “S-value max” for the laser is 1000. So when I would say burn at 100% power it was only turning on to about 25%. I would check to see how v-carve handles this as presumably there must be a similar setting - maybe the 24 watt also has a different than default “S-value max”? Something to look into…a little bit of googling and it looks that folks have had a similar issue with v-carve.

S value in Vcarve

I have used lightburn for lasers in the past, but am trying to utilize Vcarve. I’m using the non-module version of the post-processor given on the Jtech website, and using a jtech 14 watt. Should the spindle speed be altered in Vcarve to 1000 as well? The older walkthrough that Jtech had showed 255 as the max at the time, but it was an older pictorial. I had been using 255 and a bit stumped at why my cutting attempts were going so poorly until I remembered that the S value in Lightburn was 1000…