Hypersensing with THCAD - better way to do ohmic sensing

rodw wrote: So then when probing the voltage must exceed 23.8 volts and be trending upwards for 3 servo cycles before turning on.
And then when it fell below that threshold and was trending down for 3 consecutive servo cycles we turn it off.

Yeh I know. Accuracy is determined when we turn off the signal.hence the idea to track the trend. I still have to think it through a bit but if it is trending down, we might be more responsive than say a config that turns on at 22 volts and off at 1 volt which is what I had at one stage. (eg. The hysteresis consumes servo cycles anyway.)

Well 6 servo cycles (maybe more depending on how many cycles the voltage remains static) increases the overrun 6 times and without knowing how many servo cycles the second config consumes to cover the hysteresis it seems to be a bit of guesswork to determine which way is more responsive.

I was just doing some googling and saw this way around the issue:

I don't like the look of that. There is still a lot of dust in the air compared with a water table so it does not seem to be a downdraft table. The bigger thermal dynamics machines do a water mist cut mode.To be clear, this is purely an issue for water tables and its not THCAD specific. Building a downdraft table would also solve it but I found that the water table gives less dross since I added it.

On a dry table it takes about 0.04mm of movement on contact to gain a full 24 volt signal on my testing so any lag from proposed overtravel is not significant at all. How many servo cycles does it take plasmac to back up say .03mm? (say from 24 volt back to 5 volt to turn off a relay?)

Oops forgot a link www.plasmaspider.com/viewtopic.php?t=29460

rodw wrote: I don't like the look of that. There is still a lot of dust in the air compared with a water table so it does not seem to be a downdraft table. The bigger thermal dynamics machines do a water mist cut mode.To be clear, this is purely an issue for water tables and its not THCAD specific. Building a downdraft table would also solve it but I found that the water table gives less dross since I added it.

It wasn't a suggestion, I think it is cute, cnc drag cutting.

On a dry table it takes about 0.04mm of movement on contact to gain a full 24 volt signal on my testing so any lag from proposed overtravel is not significant at all. How many servo cycles does it take plasmac to back up say .03mm? (say from 24 volt back to 5 volt to turn off a relay?)

PlasmaC probe up is 0.001mm per servo cycle, so that would be 30 cycles.

On the test component I posted for you it is 0.01 per cycle for Probe Up if sensed before Probe Height then 0.001 per cycle for the second Probe Up.

Would it be worthwhile to add something like:

If Ohmic is enabled in the Run Panel then before the first cut in a job pulse the torch before probing commences to get the air flowing.

This may need to be an ini file option as I am not sure that it would be applicable for all machines.

phillc54 wrote:

rodw wrote: PlasmaC probe up is 0.001mm per servo cycle, so that would be 30 cycles.

On the test component I posted for you it is 0.01 per cycle for Probe Up if sensed before Probe Height then 0.001 per cycle for the second Probe Up.

SO we are going to get more efficient at this. Those 30 cycles are currently inherent in most relay configs used by Plasmac that are in use.

When I'm ready to tackle that test, I'll let you know as I'm sure I've lost the link..