Rods "Spaceship" Scratch built Plasma Cutter build

Thanks Tommy. I just had dinner and remembered I left a soldering iron on up at the shop so no red wine for me tonight. I better go and turn it off!

so i think i need to replace regulary the cable
the tables 4 Plasmas in shop are running almost the whole workday
so it is a matter of time to get them broken

rodw wrote: ........ and remembered I left a soldering iron on up at the shop so no red wine for me tonight. I better go and turn it off!

Done that many, many times !

Well it too a while but I've finally added ohmic sensing and the plasmac config to my tale and I'm really excited how well plasmac works. It really is quite simple to install if you already have a working config as I described in this thread. forum.linuxcnc.org/plasma-laser/36410-in...her-plasma-component

I was doing it hand in hand with wiring in an ohmic sensing circuit which took a lot more effort than the new config.



So with plasmac all you need is a M3 S1 command and all of the touch off, torch voltage sampling ant THC just happens automatically. Anyway here is a video

Rod,
It's nice to see it doing some cutting.
I know you will like me less now but I am actually in Canberra.

Cheers, Phill.

Sorry mate for getting the geography wrong. I was just checking you were watching it!

Funny that one of my best customers called to see me today on his way past which was nice. Dare I say it but he's from Canberra too!

Time is non existent for me. It took 2 months to finish the upgrades and I bought everything and made the drag chain support back then too! I really wanted the ohmic sensing working. I'll order some steel now and set up to cut 200 or so small parts similar to what I ws cutting which will save me a fairly expensive laser cutting job.