Center Spot Sheetcam Post

Do you have a replacement relay, i think some solid state relays only indicate that they have an input.

thefabricator03 wrote: Must be something with my plasma then. Is all you changed was the torch on time?

Yes, thats all I played with. the 45XP manual says to dimple at 50 ms so we are on the right track I think but the time delay between firing the torch and the arc starting is likely quite variable between cuts so I think the count down needs to happen after the THCAD voltage confirms we are > 0 volts. Then the plasma won't know we tricked it!.

rodw wrote:

thefabricator03 wrote: I have my setting in plasmac set at 400 milliseconds.

What happens at 999?

Ok tried 999 and G4 P10, works

999 G4 P3 works but the P10 created a better mark.

phillc54 wrote: Do you have a replacement relay, i think some solid state relays only indicate that they have an input.

Stefan will have a few spare when a THCAD-5 turns up for him. I will say I had to rethink my Ohmic power supply sensing trigger. I moved it from the ohmic enable to spindle.0.on so it was on all the time just for fun but when we started using spindle.2.on, it was a problem! It now turns on with the machine.

And yes changing the connections.hal file was the final thing I needed to do.

thefabricator03 wrote:

rodw wrote:

thefabricator03 wrote: I have my setting in plasmac set at 400 milliseconds.

What happens at 999?

Ok tried 999 and G4 P10, works

999 G4 P3 works but the P10 created a better mark.

Strange you need to wait so long. You could back off slowly from 999 until it does not fire and then go up a bit. I did do a bit of trial and error.

eg. go to 500 and if its not a goer, go to 750, then keep bracketing until its as short as you can get away with.

Yeah Ill give it a try in the morning. Its funny I tried 999 with my gcode file I created and had no luck,

Phill, what exactly did you do to the file I posted?