Another plasma component...

Is there a way for me to add or inlarge the THC Enable disable/button. I find i'm controlling the thc manually for small holes and with the touch screen it would be nice to have a large ON/OFF button. Maybe even right under the Torch on/Torch off button.

phillc54 wrote: Sorry but I'm not sure what is missing, you may be better off starting a thread for that here

Cheers, Phill,

Sorry, I loaded debian 9 and was missing some python gtk stuff. IT loads now.

Thanks

JTknives wrote: Is there a way for me to add or inlarge the THC Enable disable/button. I find i'm controlling the thc manually for small holes and with the touch screen it would be nice to have a large ON/OFF button. Maybe even right under the Torch on/Torch off button.

It would be possible but a fair bit of work.
The automatic way to do it would be to have two materials defined, one with thc enabled and one with it disabled then change between materials in your gcode.

Cheers, Phill.

Guys

That is how I do it and it works very reliably.

John

Hi Guys, sorry for my english. I have been following the development of Plasmac since the beginning.
And now I decided to try it on my machine with a parallel port and with PromaTHC.
I set up the configuration pretty quickly, and started testing
and found a few errors:
the first is when the program is stoped and Z axis is trying to go up I get error "joint2 following error", I decided to increase MIN_FERROR to 1 and it helped.

The second error is that the float switch catches interference from HF ignition and the program pauses.
I decided increase debounce.0.delay to 100, I don't know if this is right, but it helped.
I really like the work of this component, and I want to say thank you for your work.
I will continue to test plasmac.

Franklin, great to see another convert and its exciting to see someone using plasmac with a Proma. Tommy will be happy!
Here is an idea for you. In my earlier config, I had problems with the probe triggering while cutting. So what I did is use a M64 P1 before probing and a M65 P1 after probing. Then I and2'ed the motion.digital-output.01 with the float switch input and connected the and2 output to the probe input. That way, the float switch was disabled while cutting and never faulted again.

In fact, Phill may have an idea on how to use the plasmac ohmic enable output to achieve the same thing.