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General Mach Discussion / Re: Physical buttons for plasma

« on: January 20, 2016, 01:38:47 PM »

The one thing about teh CSlabs version that I do not care for is it requires you to adjust the Set volts via a Manual pot.   THAT should be an adjustment you make via software not not manually via hardware.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Physical buttons for plasma

« on: January 20, 2016, 01:23:12 PM »

An outside controller MUST do all the THC functions internally.  IF you are to do teh analog monitoring as well it must sample at a rate to provide usable data at the max feedrate you will be cutting at.
One of the nice things about teh Controller doing ALL teh functions is it is easy to update teh variables for the THC function on the fly( set volts, Antidive,Cornerlockout, THCdelay,etc). You already have a Com link to the controller so no other outside com link is needed. Also easy for the controller to update teh User Displayed values such as Arc Volts.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Physical buttons for plasma

« on: January 19, 2016, 04:04:50 PM »

HIya Hood did you realize that that controller has a real analog THC function built in and you don't need an outside THC controller (;-) You just input teh divided voltage under 10V and it can do all the THC work realtime.

There are a ton of really cool things you could do with it for plasma. I have been wanting to test one but am too cheap to buy one to test(;-) They could capture a HUGE share of the CNC plasma market with that controller IF it actually works well.

Are you going to run it with Mach3 or Mach4 ??  (;-)  

(;-)TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Physical buttons for plasma

« on: January 19, 2016, 02:42:35 PM »

Submerged cutting is a whole different animal . (;-)

(;-)TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Tool change macro help needed.

« on: January 19, 2016, 02:25:32 PM »

OK here you go The  Y offset positions have been swapped to X . BE very careful testing.

(;-)TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Physical buttons for plasma

« on: January 19, 2016, 11:54:32 AM »

For occasional cutting a water table is a pain in the rear end . Being it would be in an unheated shed in Scotland it would be a double pain in the rear end.

Use a slide in pan to catch teh slag/drops and a good exhaust fan to evacuate the fumes.

NOW if it was to be used in continuous productions cutting that would be a different story AND it would NOT be out in a shed.

Just a thought, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Physical buttons for plasma

« on: January 19, 2016, 10:57:57 AM »

HIYA Hood What controller will you be using with the plasma table ??

(;-) TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Tool change macro help needed.

« on: January 18, 2016, 04:41:17 PM »

It may not be as simple as just flipping teh X/Y. IF you have changed teh orintation of XY from the way the OEM built it then ALL of the positional values of  the tool change macro may be wrong for the way you want to run the machine. You may have to start from scratch and find all teh new values as well as change the directions of motion.

Normally all tool change values are in machine Corrds and are based on the relation to the Machine's  0,0 point when Referenced Home.

You also may find the Toolpath display will be wrong as well as where Home is located.

(;-) TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Tool change macro help needed.

« on: January 18, 2016, 03:19:57 PM »

Helping you with the macro is not a problem BUT i don't have a clue as to what you are actually  needing .  Also you need to NAME the dealer so others will KNOW to steer clear of them in the future as it IS their responsibility to help you get up and running.  A lot of the shady ones rely on this forum to do their support work for them FOR FREE without recourse. 

(;-) TP

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CS-Lab / Re: ENC threading module setup for ridgid tapping

« on: January 17, 2016, 10:55:15 PM »

IF the motor to spindle ratio is 2:1 then gear the encoder off the motor shaft at 2:1  Then the encoder will turn at Spindle RPM , 1:1

(;-) TP