First, let me say, this 64w is an absolute animal. 40 ipm on 3mm Baltic Birch is legitimately 5x faster than my Creality 24w at 8 imp. I’ve always heard other companies kind of overinflate their power numbers and I heard J Tech say they advertise actual values. They’re not kidding. ~3x the power but 5x the speed is no joke.
Anyway, I made an IoT outlet for my Makita router using the breakout connector and a logic controlled relay. Per standard practice, it’s running off pin 15 and an M3 command I put in the GCode “On program start” settings tab in the Onefinity interface. Works great. I just added the 64w laser to the mix and it also works great except it’s triggering the outlet when the laser fires. I understand why it’s happening; M3 turns the laser on the same way it turns the router’s outlet on (with the added S value for laser power) but is there any way I can change or stop this? I’d like to use IoT to control the air assist pump but I’d prefer it just stays on and doesn’t shut off with the laser when it’s moving over white space… I’m no electrical engineer but the way the relay was flickering while the laser was rastering small text didn’t seem like a great way to keep my local fire department from paying me a visit.
Is pin 15 the only way to control a tool or do I remember reading somewhere there was another GPIO pin available? Is the two pin “laser” connection on the back of the BB controller that connects it to the SIM just connected to pin 15?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.