has somebody a exemple how to connect external offset to real machine?

@Rod,

For your machine i think this would be practical the best setup :

088106 inverter 230vac with cpc port or (088107 inverter 230vac with cpc port and serial interface port)
223595 work lead 7.6m
228350 cpc interface cable to pc (with serial, you need separate serial connect cable)
059478 duramax machine torch 10.7m

And you need a retaining cap, deflector, swirl ring, electrode and nozzle.

Thank you Grotius, much appreciated.

Hi Rod,

I think i can order/send to your country.

If the local dealer will do this for 2200 euro. Its perfect for you !!
Pay no more then 2500 euro's with 3 years warranty included because you only need the box.
You do install yourself.

Grotius,

Thank you. I've asked my local dealer for a quote based on your list. 2500 EUR is about what the 088139 kit with torch, CPC and RS485 was quoted at.

The local dealer came back at AUD $4009 excluding our GST (VAT) for the full Grotius lIst. Google currency converter makes that about 2538 Euro. I think imports from Europe would require about AUD 100 customs fees plus 5% duty plus Customs broker fee (plus out 10% GST).

Hi rodw,

Okey that is a nice price. Dealer has i think 10% on 2200 euro if they are gold supplier.
So for 3 years warranty i would not complain about 2500 euro's.
Remember for your consumables, go to borte. They are really cheap. They even sell the patended hypertherm electrode.
They don't give a shit about that. This cost's my all my consumable clients. But Hypertherm know's about that.

For info :

github.com/michelwijnja/external_offsets

I have cloned the orginal linuxcnc github to my privat channel and merged the external offsets with master.
Feel free to try it.

Second goal is to merge the adaptive feed into the master with git. But this is really a problem.
5 files can not automaticly merge. So you can do that by hand. But this is not so easy. My oirginal version is local and
uploading multiple files to git gives problems. Also not easy.
So plan now is to compare my orginal adaptive feed verstion with github.com/michelwijnja/external_offsets by hand.

Grotius, thank you for the feedback and the link to your git repository.
There will be tools that allow you to view both files size by side. Have a look at www.mergely.com/ but perhaps there is a better tool. So before you dive in, ask on the developers mail list or the IRC chat for guidance.

@Hi Rodw,

Now i merged the external offset branche and the reverse run master branche in this reprository :
github.com/michelwijnja/external_offsets.git

The reverse run master branche was difficult to merge, but after a few trial's and error it works with latest master version.

When installing this you dont have to check out a branche, both branches are already merged.
To enable the reverse run in axis or other user interface program, just open a test ngc file and type in mdi line : M52 P1
This enables the adaptive feed. A proper way can be to use this command in the startup ngc code, i think in the ini file.
To test the negative adaptive feed :

open halmeter, type in command line : setp motion.adaptive−feed -1
Do this when your program is running for a while, on program line 1 nothing wil go backwards. Also it will stop backwards
at a m3 command.
And it will run your plasma program at 100% speed backwards. Also the external offsets are working good. So now i am happy !!