Plasmac Gcode documentation

rodw
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02 Jun 2020 10:39 #169794 by rodw

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nah its more than that because you would not want to just take over the pin you want to share it with Plasmac, so you have to unlinkp, then or 2 your pin when you find the right one. I just found it a fairly complex exercise easy to stuff up (which I did!)

Mind you, my config is probably the most complex plasma table around and getting my hal files to play with plasmac was not trivial to start with..

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02 Jun 2020 12:05 #169797 by phillc54

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I guess it is a couple more but not too difficult and could all be in the postgui HAL file.

loadrt or2 names=thc-disable-or2
addf thc-disable-or2 servo-thread
unlinkp plasmac.thc-disable
net plasmac:thc-disable-0 thc-disable-or2.in0
net plasmac:thc-disable-1 your-thc-disable-pin thc-disable-or2.in1
net thc-enable-out thc-disable-or2.out plasmac.thc-disable

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02 Jun 2020 12:31 #169798 by tommylight

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Hmm, me again, i still do not understand why would someone want to disable the THC for any reasonable reason, yet PlasmaC has 3 different ways of disabling it, and this is the fourth !!!
Icelander did try to explain why one would need it disabled, but i never got it as reasonable.
The most important feature on any plasma machine is the THC, so why on earth would someone disable it.
Consider me baffled!

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02 Jun 2020 17:53 #169841 by rodw

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tommylight wrote:
Hmm, me again, i still do not understand why would someone want to disable the THC for any reasonable reason, yet PlasmaC has 3 different ways of disabling it, and this is the fourth !!!

Well the most obvious is for kerf/void crossing which is what I'm working on..
One day, I will know the arc radius from within hal which might be another use case. (When I know how to get to the state tags data)

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02 Jun 2020 17:56 #169842 by tommylight

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rodw wrote:

tommylight wrote:
Hmm, me again, i still do not understand why would someone want to disable the THC for any reasonable reason, yet PlasmaC has 3 different ways of disabling it, and this is the fourth !!!

Well the most obvious is for kerf/void crossing which is what I'm working on..
One day, I will know the arc radius from within hal which might be another use case. (When I know how to get to the state tags data)

Yes, that is a reasonable reason.
:blush:

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