Another plasma component...

Just thinking I might try a new scribe, I like to look of this one on the site Rod posted,
www.gettoolsdirect.com.au/geiger-pneumat...ng-stylus-gp110.html

I can get a wide stylus for it for a resonable price, www.gettoolsdirect.com.au/geiger-wide-po...stylus-gp110-18.html

Problem with American products here in Aus is you pay a premium for them and have to wait weeks for parts.At least if something breaks I could get parts easily.

Thanks Phill,

I think ill try a new scribe first and it that does not work Ill annoy you to show me how I can do what you suggested.

Stefan, I think those parts are for this one
www.gettoolsdirect.com.au/geiger-pneumat...ng-stylus-gp110.html

I left my upgrade a long time, I was maybe 3 months behind and there had been a lot of changes including directory structure and the configurator. Even the base Linuxcnc version changed. Because I use run in place I was able to set up the latest version alongside the existing, although I find once I upgrade something I always seem to persevere with the new version rather than go back.

I did have a few problems along the way that that Phill sorted out for me and I am back to a working machine, dropping my thc gain from 25 to 10 as suggested by Phill stopped the torch bouncing up and down. I think having some starter settings is a great idea to get people somewhere close to begin tuning from. Hearing that a lot of you are using the auto volts now, I will be giving that a try.

I do still have some issues with cut quality on the latest version, it’s hard to explain but it almost feels as though my table is more sensitive now, curves in files that I used to cut that were smooth, now seem to show every small segment that makes the curve up. Even some straight cuts seem to have have wiggles in them that they previously didn’t.

I am going to go through the table this weekend and make sure everything is adjusted properly, run some code with a pen and paper rather than cutting steel to see if the issue is in trajectory or the actual plasma cut process, re-measure all the height and float travel settings, and put in some new consumables before doing the line tests again.
That should hopefully get me back to the quality of cut I had previously.

I think without PlasmaC I would have given up and moved to some other controller and software long ago. PlasmaC and the help from this forum enabled me to get a working CNC table with more functionality than I ever hoped for. I will however make sure I keep a little more up to date in the future as such a big jump introduces way too many variables.

Hi Phil,

Can I put in a small request as regards documentation.

Add date when last edited in top at first page. Makes life a bit easier.

Cheers
Bengt

rodw wrote:

Stefan, I think those parts are for this one
www.gettoolsdirect.com.au/geiger-pneumat...ng-stylus-gp110.html

Yeah I brought that scribe and a wide stylus tip.