Error Recovery

snowgoer540 wrote:

phillc54 wrote:

Maybe when it is in CPA mode PlasmaC needs to disable THC.

I have no clue whether the machine keeps Arc OK on or not while in CPA mode..

My machine only uses CPA mode but it doesn't have Arc OK so I cannot test it out.

No worries. Perhaps a new feature is “ignore arc ok” check box for cutting mesh?

I was thinking to keep it automatic because I would imagine that you only selected CPA mode to cut mesh plus having that as a separate check box would be redundant for all? other machines.

Do other manufacturers have CPA mode?

At any rate, it got a bit buried but did you see my cut recovery feedback?

I did, do you think it is a worthwhile feature to keep working on?

OK, I am out and about at the moment, when I get back I'll go through you earlier post.

Maybe there should be a setting called "Mesh cutting" which ignores ArcOK and also disables Kerf Crossing. Its a bit hard for the guys who have it to test it the way Plasmac is designed. You could test it by cutting over some slots if you don't have some mesh. It might be able to resume THC when ArcOK is present.

Maybe Snowgoer in his capacity as official tester could unlinkp the ArcOK input and setp the pin to true. He's just about up to that task now

Done right you should still be able to keep the GUI led operational so observing that on a cut would tell you what goes on..
Maybe Phill could provide the test hal settings...

I might add that a good Kerf crossing feature should almost support this feature with THC on all the time...

I think the first thing we need to do is find out if Arc OK does or does not stay on during CPA cutting and whether this feature is common to manufacturers or is it HT only.

I might add that a good Kerf crossing feature should almost support this feature with THC on all the time...

Yeah, that's how it worked for me when I last tested kerf crossing.

snowgoer540 wrote:

The pause stuff no longer works the way I used to remember, I could sometimes execute the next line (which was to turn the velocity back to 100%), but I could never get it to execute line to start the rapid motion to go to the next hole. This would be when it would arc-out at the end of the cut. I was unable to get it to keep going through the code to go to the next feature and start cutting again.

I don't quite follow what you mean here.