 How to configure your new laser with light burn my name's Jim and this is the edge of tech So you got a new laser and all over the forums and all over discord you keep hearing about a program called light burn Well, I'm here to tell you that light burn is simply awesome It can do the function of many different applications all in one But how do you connect your laser to it? Well, that's what we're gonna go through today This is gonna be a very quick video in this video. I'm gonna assume a couple things number one You know how to download and install light burn. The link will be in the description below number two You have your laser built you know how to turn it on and you know how to plug the USB cable from the laser Into your computer assuming all of those things which are very simple. We're gonna move on from there. Let's do it Okay, so you installed light burn from the link in the description below you turned on your laser You plug the USB cable into it and then into your computer and now this is where we're at Go on over and find your light burn icon, which will look like this Double-click it and that will open light burn It'll go full screen and the first thing it's gonna ask you to do is find that laser So the first thing I like to do is hit the find my laser button It says be sure your device is connected via USB and click the next button So we're gonna click next there and if your laser is connected and plugged in You're gonna find that it should find it if it doesn't I'm gonna show you how to set it up manually in one second But if it does this is what it's gonna do. We know it's a gerbil controller. That's 400 by 430 millimeters I'm using the or two or laser master 2 and this shows that it's on calm 3 and it's running at this Baud rate. It's gonna use gcode to send to the laser as well. That's perfect. So I want to hit add device It says where is the origin of your laser? Well on my laser on the or two or laser master 2 It's in the front left and you can find this out on your laser by powering the laser on and finding out Where it goes to start when you first power your laser on it's gonna go to the home position in my case front left And I wanted to auto home on laser start up every time so it finds that home position So I'm gonna hit next It says that's it. You're done. We're connected We have about a 16 by 17 inch build area. The origin that's is at the front left We're using gerbil over USB. So hit finish and Hit okay It's gonna wait and connect it and when it does it's actually gonna home the laser So close that box that pops up and the first thing you want to do is close light burn after this So once you install your laser I prefer to close light burn down just like that and then Fire light burn back up that will turn it on it'll look for your device and if it doesn't come to the bottom right side here and Click com 3 because we know that's where it said it found it Now we wait for connection. It says it's okay. It honed and it says it's okay So we hit the little X there and that's it now your laser is officially connected To light burn and you can do whatever you want. It shows the build surface here and you're ready to go. So that's it It was super easy. We connected automatically using the or two or laser master two But I tell you what what if you have a different model or what if light burn doesn't find it automatically? Well, let's go through that real quick now. So you open up light burn and Your device lets comes up and you run find my laser, but you can't find it Now what we need to do is actually create it manually. So you're gonna click create manual We know that it's a grbl or gerbil. So I'm gonna click on that I know that I'm using usb and this is for the or two or laser master two yours could be a little bit different, but Uh, for the most part, it should be the same as long as you choose the right size and if you have a gerbil controller Um, I know I want to keep it just called gerbil. It doesn't matter I could call it lm two if I want to and then I know this is a 400 by 430 so i'm gonna type in 400 by 430. I'm gonna hit next Uh, I know that it homes in the front left just like we talked about before and I wanted to auto home on startup Hit next and finish and that is it So it's gonna try to find it. It's not gonna ride away I always like to close light burn down and then reopen it Once it's reopened in the bottom right side We know that we found the laser on calm 3. So i'm gonna click calm 3 It'll go through the homing procedure It'll say it's homing you can hear the laser home and then we are good to go Now I know we have a 400 by 430 build area. We're using gerbil I know that it's connecting to the laser because it auto homed if I go up here to edit And I go down here to device settings and I go to additional settings These are some settings that might not be correct. So what I like to do is click the read from controller button Once you do that, it'll actually find all the settings from the controller I hit okay and now we're ready to rock and roll And that's it now you have your new laser connected to light burn and light burn is a very very powerful software You can do everything right inside light burn for the most part And I really like to use it. Don't forget there's a link in the description below if you want to download it It's not an affiliate link. All you have to do is click that link It'll go to light burn and if you've not used it before you get a 30 day free trial So check it out I suggest you try it because I tell you you're gonna love it Well, I know this video is short and sweet, but I hope you guys learned something today Keep burning Hey everybody, I hope you guys like today's video Give me that thumbs up if you did hit that subscribe button right here and click the bell If you want to be notified anytime we go live on monday nights for hot makes or anytime a great new video like this drops You guys rock. Have you seen this one?