Cover both dose models explicitly now that density is the default

grblHAL-glowforge 03d70e0, pinned here, makes density the shipped model
and $35 the density floor at 10. Every analog session in the stream
harness now selects its model rather than inheriting it: without that the
flip would have quietly turned them into density runs and taken the
analog fallback's coverage with them. laser.power-floor carries the new
floor and its PWMSAR minimum, and its description no longer describes
$35 as a duty floor.

All ten stream sessions pass on the new defaults, with the analog duties
shifting exactly as the floor predicts - min_value 12, gradient 0.115 -
along with both C harnesses and the lifecycle harness.

Recorded in BRINGUP and the campaign log, including what the defaults
rest on and what they do not: the seven ladders ran at F300 and F100 at
constant power, so production feeds, M4 into corners and the raster path
remain unproven on hardware.
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ScottW514
2026-08-17 22:03:56 -04:00
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@@ -203,9 +203,9 @@ spindle PWM is precomputed to a period of exactly 127, so computed values ARE
power bytes (`$30` default 1000 → S1000 = 127).
**Dose model.** `laser_power_model` in the shared machine config selects how
the shipper renders the per-segment value the core computes: `analog` (the
default) ships it as a power byte, `density` pins the duty at full and
modulates the FIRE bit instead - a base period of `laser_pulse_ticks`
the shipper renders the per-segment value the core computes: `density` (the
default) pins the duty at full and modulates the FIRE bit, `analog` ships the
value as a power byte instead - a base period of `laser_pulse_ticks`
(default 20 = 710 us at 28160 Hz, the factory's ~1.43 kHz) whose on-count is
dithered between adjacent integers with the remainder carried, so densities
finer than one tick per period average out. The model is selected per arm
@@ -221,7 +221,10 @@ ticks. The debt is conserved, so the average density is unchanged: at level
2 the stream goes from 444 one-tick bursts to 147 three-tick bursts, same
density to four decimals. Under this model `$35` stops being a duty floor
and becomes a density floor - the control that maps S onto the band that
does useful work, which is what the factory does with its own scale. Structurally the model is a
does useful work, which is what the factory does with its own scale. It
ships at 10, putting a commanded 1 % at 10.2 % density; **selecting `analog`
means raising it to ~16**, the duty this tube lases at, and the arm warns on
either mismatch (a zero floor under density, a sub-lasing one under analog). Structurally the model is a
mask on the core's fire state and never a source of one, so emission stays
exactly where the core commanded it.
@@ -1138,14 +1141,20 @@ Open items only. Anything closed is in `CAMPAIGN-LOG.md`.
onto that band, which is what the factory does and what `$35` is under
this model.
Owed: the shipping defaults. The model, the minimum pulse and the
scale are all proven on hardware, but `laser_power_model` still
defaults to `analog`, so nothing of this reaches a machine until the
key is set. Flipping the default means `$35` must move with it - 16 is
the analog duty floor, 10 is the density floor, and the wrong pairing
is a dead band either way - and it wants one real job at a production
feed first: every ladder here ran at F300 or F100, where dose per
millimeter is generous, and no raster has run at all.
**The defaults are flipped:** `laser_power_model` defaults to `density`
and `$35` to 10, the density floor, so a stock machine runs the model
and a commanded 1 % marks. The analog path remains as `laser_power_model
= analog`, and a machine switched to it must raise `$35` to ~16 or low
S lands in the duty dead band; the arm warns on either mismatch.
Owed: validation at production feeds. Every ladder behind these
defaults ran at F300 or F100, where dose per millimeter is generous and
the power is constant - none of them exercised M4's velocity scaling
into corners, a real sender's level changes, or the raster path, which
has not run at all. The arithmetic says dotting will not be the
problem (at 10 % density the pulse interval is 1.07 ms, which at
2000 mm/min is 35 um against a ~200 um spot), but that is reasoning,
not a cut.
For reference, the factory maps its whole 1-100 power
scale onto density 18.9-79.5 % (fit from the three captures; Full Power