PlasmaC using two P. Ports

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Clive S
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18 May 2020 15:09 #168156 by Clive S

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Ok I have set up a machine on the bench with an old 3d printer and as gantry machine it all running fine with gantry homing and home switches on PP 0 - on PP1 is the plasma stuff breakaway, float, etc.

I did the base files first then ran the configurator the only error I got was ;-

If I comment the line out PlamaC opens fine.

I don't have a THC connected (Can you use a THC with PPorts)

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18 May 2020 15:54 #168159 by PCW

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You can use a standard (Proma type) THC with parallel ports
you can also use a THCAD though the voltage resolution will
depend on the base thread rate (the lower latency the better)

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18 May 2020 23:22 #168205 by phillc54

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Clive, there is a bit in the docs about that, I hope I got it right linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/plasma/plasma...uide.html#mesa-thcad

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19 May 2020 06:55 #168229 by tommylight

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I have a THCAD working with parallel port at 1/32, base thread set at 20000, it works perfectly.
If you can not get that low of latency, it can still be used by setting the divider to 1/64.
And there is no need for 2 parallel ports, if you do not need separate homing and limits.
THC 1 input,
Float 1 input
3 inputs remain for homing/limits, so plenty of options.
And please do use small relays on all inputs, saves a lot of headache with interferences.

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25 May 2020 05:58 #168847 by CFE

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Hi Clive,

We had the same problem and the gents here helped us out. What you need to do is create an encoder input to feed into the parport. I have attached our plasma-connections hal file, it shows the encoder input.

Cheers, Peter

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25 May 2020 07:25 - 25 May 2020 07:26 #168848 by Clive S

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CFE wrote:
Hi Clive,

We had the same problem and the gents here helped us out. What you need to do is create an encoder input to feed into the parport. I have attached our plasma-connections hal file, it shows the encoder input.

Cheers, Peter

Thanks, But on this occasion I have decided to go with a Mesa 7i96 + THC-10

Last edit: 25 May 2020 07:26 by Clive S. Reason: spelling

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