Mesa THCAD

chimeno wrote:

Hi thefabricator03,
I'm looking for options to connect THC300 to my ethercat system, do you have any proven option ?, thanks.
Regards
Chimeno

We are considering producing a ethercat module specifically for plasma which included THCAD like functionality for both voltage sensing and ohmic sensing, a RS485 state machine to talk to Hypertherm plasma machines and sufficient general I/O to run a plasma table. So basically you would only need one module and your drive controllers.. We were not sure if there would be sufficient demand for such a module. Please let me know if you were thinking of multiple units as it is a cool idea and we have the ethercat sorted already.

Hi thefabricator03,
That module seems very interesting, although I would like to try the beckhoff modules I think the EL5101 can be a good option, I hope to see your progress, thanks.

Hi Rodw,
That seems very interesting, a module with all these functions would be fine, for now I am just looking for tests and how THC works, thanks for the contribution.
Regards
Chimeno