Need better hardware and config instructions

[cuishuang413]

First of all, thanks for providing this amazing tool. I'm relatively new to Arduino and hoping to get some help.
I need some help on hardware wiring and config instructions. How do I config it to a regular laser instead of the Synrad laser? I hooked a scope to pin 6 (the laser PWM pin?) and got some periodic pulses coming out, which doesn't make any sense to me. Isn't that going to trigger the laser? I also see pulses and waveforms on the other 4 pins; I tried to send command to the Teensy and got "ok" coming back to not seeing any meaningful changes on the 4 pins. Am I missing something?

Thank you!

[Bx3mE]

The Synrad laser requires a "trickle current" to keep the gas inside the laser ionized..... Thats why there is a small ammount of action on the laser pin (It also keeps trickeling until you shut off the machine as well as prevent any lasing for the first 5 seconds). Until i get time to continiue work check out the PR. Also there are gcode files included for initial testing...
If you check Line 52 and 54 in main.cpp No PWM Support yet, should be easy to fix if you copy synrad and make it behave... (as synrad is PWM + trickle). If you analyse the data on the data pins you must fit all of then into one view, trigger on sync. If i remember correctly clk is 2Mhz pulses and synk is 1/20 roughly 100khz. Also check: http://www.newson.be/doc.php?id=XY2-100

[cuishuang413]

that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for the prompt reply. really nice work.