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I am using the image from the link that started the forum about ethercat. My raspberry has 8 gigabytes and a 64 gigabyte SD card... and I use the raspberry image to generate the boot. I downloaded this file from the link you sent me now and the error is the same. If I try to open the image, it says that the file is corrupted.

I love these pendants
 
But they take some wiring in.
 
I tried some complex hal trickery to get eveything working but gave up and wrote a custom  component
In addition to that, we are using my Lam stepboost component to get higher performance out of the Lam drivers.
And My Ohmic3 Hypersensing component that uses a THCAD which will be a bug upgrade for Steve.

It was pretty hard to wire up a plasma cutter without a table, so I made a couple of errors to make Steve's job a bit harder.
Shh don't tell anybody but I had to get some hellp to set up  my own ohmic3 component!

I forgot to mention the control box uses a safety relay for the estop circuit. Thats the red relay with the row of lights on it.I elected to utilise an external estop reset button,so we just use the QTplasmac estop as an indicator.

To the left of the safety relay are a couple of force guided relays which add some redundancy to the connection back to linuxcnc that tells us that we are awake! Thse have a plastic pin that forces the relays open to prevent any possibility of the contacts being welded shut. These are the only relays used in the build as the torch is turned on by the 7i76e's onboatd spindle SSR.

So that is a brief summary of the build. Next post will show the after.

Thanks snowgoer540 for leaving the rest of the post up so future people can at least see what should be
looked for ( in my opinion anyway ) when considering a PnP purchase or build

To get the gearboxes to mount up, we had to machine up some adapter plates because the gearbox 7mm long flange would not fit.
 

So the compination of near quadrupling the voltage and a significant gear reduction really gave the machine a lift in performance.

The plasma had a 24 volt motor driving the z axis lifter so we replaced that with a stepper driven torch lifter with 200 mm of travel
 
I was annoyed originally about this because despite being assured it would be stepper driven, it had a geared motor. All was not lost as they had spot drilled the mounting plate to take a NEMA23 motor. This has a break away mount and a float switch built in and a bit of tewiring was tequired.

To wire everything up, we used two little breakout boards I made a long time ago so we could use a couple of DB9 cables to wire it up.
 
Thes can be daisy chained together and support proximity sensors,  switched inputs and ooutputs (with flyback diodes built in)
If anybody is interested in these, please let me know, I was thinking of getting a batch made.
The only problem is the connectors are very hard to crimp on (for me) so I sourced some tails that I could join onto the prox sensors.

 

When I wanted to post the dmesg output, of course it worked. Will keep an eye on it and let you know if it stops working again.

unfortunately, i don't know any other kinematics for this, but i should also start working on this topic, maybe it can be extended by the parameters

I built a second plasma controller utilising what I learnt making the spaceship plasma a few years ago.
 
This still uses a Mesa 7i76e and a couple of Thcads for torch voltage and Ohmic sensing
Additionally it has a 433 Mhz Wireless pendant which has a wired in receiver. This is the second one of these I have used and I like them a lot
Steve in Melbourne saw some of my videos and asked me if I could help out with his plasma table which was  a bit tired and in need of a refresh.

 
So a deal was struck.
The table was using a 24 volt power supply to drive the motors which was well underpowered. My controller includes a 60 volt AC toroid I had custom made which powered 5 x Lam Technologies D1076 6 amp drivers.
We replaced the motors with industrial quality ones befitting the Lam drivers from Moon's Industries. I wanted to use NEMA34's but we could not fit them in. We also added 5:1 reduction planetary WUMA gearboxes. These needed some customisation to the output shaft. We had to use an 8mm shaft. The 14mm standard shaft just would not fit into the exisring pinion.

 

to continue

i checked this doc, i want to use dh parameter rather than using mathematical equations for simplicity

do you propose another model that supports dh parameter?

linuxcnc.org/docs/html/motion/5-axis-kinematics.html

'genserkins' does not support linear axes.

hello guys,
i am want to implement 5 axis milling cnc machine kinematics with my own DH parameters, i have XYZAB joints , 3 linear and 2 rotational, is genserkins suitable for my machine config or is there is another kinematics model for this kind of config.
 

Is there any free software to generate G code for plasma?

You can try this:
github.com/multigcs/viaconstructor

never tested with plasma , but if you tell me if there is something missing, i will add it.
 

Thanks I Watched the video but it looks Ilike it doesn’t create the correct size.

Length I put on Inkscape is 300 mm
Length on simulation of geode is 346mm

Is there something I did wrong?

   
i have added it to the postgui hal file, i just have to give it a name, thank you it works fine