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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cambell designs THC -=- Table Ground ??

« on: March 20, 2008, 02:53:08 PM »

Depends which plasma power supply you are using. If it is a Hypertherm Powermax then you don't need the earth spike. Only plasma machines with HF start needs to clamp the RF to ground. But it is essential that you ground the table and machine to common ground. Reason.. If you have a short circuit to machine from the plasma neg it will seek an alternative ground and you can see some smoke on control wiring and PC, with collateral damage.

Whacko

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Well Blow my bugle.

« on: March 13, 2008, 07:14:52 PM »

I have a 19" widescreen, think I'll port it to the 32" plasma!
Say, how did you know I have a 32"?
Whacko

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General Mach Discussion / Re: What are the limitations of Mach 3?

« on: March 13, 2008, 07:12:19 PM »

Mach3 kicks ass! Better than most if not all generic controllers. That includes Burny phantom! Yep, Chris Desmond might want to sue me for saying it!
And then we get to the price, that makes it even better. The limitations of Mach3 ussually lies with the system integrator.......

Whacko

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Well Blow my bugle.

« on: March 13, 2008, 07:06:23 PM »

That's serious! Is he compensating for something?

Whacko

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Well Blow my bugle.

« on: March 13, 2008, 06:56:30 PM »

I seem to keep on going to this avatar! Can you enlarge it Brett??

Whacko

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Any one know how to build a cheap linear encoder?

« on: March 13, 2008, 06:53:12 PM »

If you are in the states, check out www.usdigital.com , they have cheap encoders and you can buy online. They used to call themselves the 10$ encoder company. If you mount a rack with a small pitch and have a small pinion on the encoder you should get better than 0.1 mm resolution. The encoders are good and is used by a well known Canadian CNC controller manufacturer (Linatrol) on the Lynx controllers. I have sold quite a few (Then Mach3 came along) of these controllers with the said encoders, and they have been working for years without a problem.

Whacko encoded

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 "cuts corners" toolpath not respected

« on: March 13, 2008, 06:47:25 PM »

Hi Bruno, is the filename the same? But anyways, the link RC posted is even better reading. Thanks RC!

Whacko

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 "cuts corners" toolpath not respected

« on: March 13, 2008, 03:34:07 PM »

Check page 5.24 of the M3M1_84.pdf. It has a good explanation of what you need to check.

Whacko

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Confused about registration

« on: March 13, 2008, 03:26:18 PM »

Oh, they do things differently 'down under'?   

Frank

They are just different full stop (period to you guys in North America )

So what hav u got agains mountees then??? <];-o

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Well Blow my bugle.

« on: March 11, 2008, 12:36:05 AM »

Yeah, it's the aspect ratio! Hehe!

Whacko