Another plasma component...

Yep, that's what I meant by 10mm above the surface.

I agree, less than 10mm may be OK.

I could leave the spinbox from Probe Height and make it Probe Backoff then users could pick a value to suit their machine

Page 9 of the User's guide

PID P Gain is listed as used by mode 0. Shouldn't this be modes 0,1?

Guys

I am most likely in the minority here. I have not had any probing problems since the middle of May. I find the current probing with rapid to a clearance height and then probe speed to material to work well. I can easily see that results of rapid down coupled with an ohmic or float switch malfunction to cause damage to your torch or the mounting. I am having a hard time seeing how two moves to the material surface will be faster.

I will have to wait until after 8/7 before I can try using PlasmaC from the new master branch.

John

mkardasi wrote: Page 9 of the User's guide

PID P Gain is listed as used by mode 0. Shouldn't this be modes 0,1?

Yes, it should.

islander261 wrote: Guys

I am most likely in the minority here. I have not had any probing problems since the middle of May. I find the current probing with rapid to a clearance height and then probe speed to material to work well. I can easily see that results of rapid down coupled with an ohmic or float switch malfunction to cause damage to your torch or the mounting. I am having a hard time seeing how two moves to the material surface will be faster.

I will have to wait until after 8/7 before I can try using PlasmaC from the new master branch.

John

That was my thought originally as well, but seeing the probing issues have made me rethink (maybe overthink) the way to do it.

I think in the user guide the following line appears three times:

phillc54 wrote: That was my thought originally as well, but seeing the probing issues have made me rethink (maybe overthink) the way to do it.

I think in the user guide the following line appears three times:

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WARNING: Probe Height is the height above the minimum Z axis limit.

Phill, I don't see thats an issue as its fixed by user training/documentation.
To me, the real issue is when the material warps above the probe height and Plasmac can't recover.

It needs to be smarter and say, "Oops, that was unexpected, let me try again from a higher start position." Otherwise you have to set the probe height way up off the sheets so it adds enormously to cutting times. According to Plasac's stats, I think my machine has spent more time probing than cutting.