FB3 Quickshow and X-Laser RGY setup question - WARNING Noob alert

[KGB]

If its 90 out of sync I would think that your x,y cables from drivers to scanners are backwards....

and sry, Im not the seller...just something I found on ebay

-Brooks

[jtnichol]

Whitelight and KGB thanks so much for your replies.

I will test with the second unit tomorrow to verify whether or not the laser is to blame. I don't think it is....but WTH do I know? lol

I figured out the menu to adjust global settings for rotation so at least I have a work around ready....a very good work around at that.

[White-Light]

If you get the same result, try using a different ILDA cable.

If that fails, then it might be time to contact Pangolin as maybe the FB3 has a fault although usually it self diagnoses its self with lights if faulty.

[jtnichol]

OK,

Got the other laser in. SAME result X is off by 90 degrees....so It must be the cable or something. Both lasers work perfectly in stand alone mode. They should obviously because they have been serviced and repaired by X-Laser. Either way I'm compensating by adjusting global settings. I have ordered another shorter cable and a "Y" cable from the ebay link above. On the "Y" cable the one half of it has X reversed. We'll see if it works or not....It should. I'll post results when I get it.

My next purchase will be an RGB of some kind for a center laser. I still want to use these as satellites so I don't want anything too powerful....That'll be for another year. But for now these are 300mW RG. Do you guys think I should stick to something like a 500mW RGB? Or just get a 1W and turn it down so I'll have something decent later on? I'm only interested in Marc at CT Lasers and X-Laser products at this point but open to any legal suggestions.

Thanks all

[norty303]

I suspect the X and Y connections from the ILDA port to the standalone/DMX board are the wrong way around.
So under ILDA control the X and Y are reversed, but on standalone it's fine because the board is connected to the correct scanner driver input.

All that the Y split cable will do is flip the sideways image so it's still on it's side, but the other way around.

So if you were projecting a letter F:

It looks like this at the moment (or the other way around...)

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it will simply do this with the Y cable

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[jtnichol]

OK so I got the "Y" cable in. It's NOT reversed on the X axis. I bought it from the link above in KGB's post. I emailed them and they apologized. I can still use it so I'm not worried but I'd like a link to a simple Y splitter with the X reverse if anyone knows of one.

Also on the RGY laser I noticed if I push the scanrate too high on a really "busy" graphic the laser just forms a sing bright dot....just like a quick target at full intensity. So...not to be a moron here but I'm assuming that maybe pushing the scanrate to say 150% is a no-no. The other RGY I have doesn't have this problem.

Either way for what I do I'm not going to worry about graphics much anyway so I'll leave the scanrate alone at 100%...but I just found it odd that it did that.

[jtnichol]

Oh another thing....could the one laser being on a "y" cable cause that weird scanrate issue? I didn't think to try and replicate the problem without the "Y" cable in the chain.