New Monport K40 Lightburn Control Board

Monport sent us the new board to install into our K40 and compare to the others. This board went in much easier than the last and aside from a couple mistakes from me, worked like a charm. This is a major upgrade from the first one.
Monport 40W CO2
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[@user-wn2fk3jm8k]

Thank you KLRform team!

[@KLRform]

Very happy with this new board!

[@cpace123]

I have not used my k40 for a while now. I have other lasers, but this looks like a fun upgrade. I used to use the k40 whisperer. I wanted to try the meerk40t software but my nano board stopped working.

[@carlsmith3817]

the Omtech K40+ board is Plug and play for the Monport Laser. all controls work with the board with no changes to the wiring! There is a setting in Lightburn to change , instructions are in the book for this correction.

[@KLRform]

That looks very similar to the cohesion board. This new monport one really surprised me and the price is right.

[@whiteflyingmonkey]

"black and red, I don't know which one goes where, will see"?! oh man, I could not do that...:)

[@dwightstebner2345]

any chance anyone here would be able to help connect the Monport control board,

[@iwantyousmile]

Thank for video. I got the same board and work as well but engraving too slow.(50% from M2 board) My setting for engraving is 300m/s but machine do like 100-150m/s. I don't know why?

[@similac95]

Ran into the same speed issues. I’ve upped I all so it’s working closer to k40. Not super happy with the board as of right now. Waiting for monport to get back to me.

[@leadf00t]

Thanks for this! I'm running a new Monport K40+ system, I'm going to double check that mine matches what you have. Big question - I'm looking to add the air assist, and I'd really like automatic control of the pump via the board, so lightburn can turn the compressor on/off automatically. Do you know if this new board allows this? It looks like there was some extra I/O on the board, so maybe?

[@leadf00t]

Ha! I just saw the reference to it in your video around 4:15. Now to verify it actually controls it. Thanks again for the video!

[@KLRform]

Yeah it has the terminal block. I have not looked into setting it up yet.

[@JaimeOrtix]

Hi, I have the board connected and it works fine, but I can't figure out how to connect the air assist, the output to air assist, it doesn't make any changes when working with lightburn. Greetings

[@michaelsemenchuk3056]

I already purchased Lightburn for my diode laser. I wanted to be able to use lightburn with my K40 so I ordered this board and will swap out the M2 Nano once it arrives. I am assuming that the Lightburn license for the diode version (grbl) will work with this Monport board? Wished all the buttons on the K40 laser lid still worked after this upgrade.

[@KLRform]

Correct the lightburn version that works for diode works for the k40. The different versions are based on the controller being used and you would only need the other one if you went to a DSP controller.

[@ashfox2012]

Is there a link to get this board in the uk ?

[@KLRform]

I do not know but I can reach out to my monport contact and ask.

[@Appleguru]

Thanks for there great video, the discount code does't appear to work on the for international users (I'm based in the UK)

[@KLRform]

I will ask them about that. Thanks for the info.

[@samirsingh9613]

you deliver the board to India

[@hadigherbal3392]

How to make aliment mirrors test using lightburn software?

[@dwightstebner2345]

there is no alignment mirror test...set laser power fairly low. then manually fire the laser with the fire button

[@similac95]

I purchased the board after watching this video. The default settings on the board for x and y speeds are insanely low compared to even the stock k40 nano board. Upping all the speeds results in in accurate cuts and engraving. Lowering the speed helps but then the engraving power is too high. Can’t get the power lower than 5 mw regardless of what it’s set to in light burn so you need to go fast for fine engraving but you can’t cause the lines start to get wonky. Not sure if you are experiencing any of these issues. Monport has not responded yet.