How to invert 0-10V output/

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06 Feb 2023 16:23 #263843 by Jur4S
Hi Im new to linuxcnc and have no idea about .ini and .hal yet. I'm using my CNC for laser engraving. And it was working fine on wood but when I switch to granite it seems powerless so I start measurements and noticed by using a PWM pin laser working only on 600mA(should be 1.8A) on 100% PWM. I can't figure out how to get full power from PWM so I change to 0-10V pins and it's working well now but my problem is when I use M68 E0 Q1 it's 0V and M68 E0 Q0 is 10V. How to invert it?
I will try to attach my config files because I was using "Marco Reps" youtube tutorial because setting laser power by S* was to slow.
 
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06 Feb 2023 16:30 #263845 by tommylight
In your custom.hal add
setp parport.0.pin-01-out-invert TRUE
so
net analogout motion.analog-out-00 => pwmgen.0.value
net laserpwm pwmgen.0.pwm => parport.0.pin-01-out
looks like
net analogout motion.analog-out-00 => pwmgen.0.value
setp parport.0.pin-01-out-invert 1
net laserpwm pwmgen.0.pwm => parport.0.pin-01-out
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06 Feb 2023 16:43 #263847 by Jur4S
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It's working perfectly now. I saw this phrase before but without any idea where to put it and which pin number.
Do you know if the 0-10V output is any "slower" than PWM if I need it to rapidly change the power of my laser? I want to know if I should start figuring out why PWM not giving full power or if I can just forget.
Thanks again.

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06 Feb 2023 16:48 #263848 by tommylight
Check at what rate of the PWM your laser can reliably work first.
I would venture a guess that 1-5KHz should work in most cases, but i have seen ones that require lower and/or higher rates.
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06 Feb 2023 17:13 #263852 by Jur4S
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Could I ask you where I can manipulate my PWM freq? When I'm looking for a solution on google I see people have command in .ini but i don't see same command in my .ini

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06 Feb 2023 17:52 #263854 by tommylight
linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/pwmgen.9.html
Near the end, pwmgen.N.pwm-freq
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06 Feb 2023 17:52 #263855 by chris@cnc
This is set in hal file example like this :
setp    hm2_7i76e.0.pwmgen.pwm_frequency 15000
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