Feature Request

Actually, I’m curious. What keys are you pressing to jog the table with the torch on? Because I’m pressing the arrow keys and it won’t move. It just cycles between the axis’ to touch off.

Ok, I had some time to do some testing tonight before the lady gets home from work and we head to dinner. Have a few findings to report:

1. Arc-OK does not stay on in CPA mode, at least not with FineCut tips, I will try regular tips tomorrow or Saturday. As soon as it loses the arc-ok signal, it pauses.

2. I met Rod's Kangaroo. Circumstances: I forgot to enable the torch. Pressed F9, it ohmic sensed until infinity. Video Evidence . My stupidity, but maybe the software should let us know when we're trying to do something stupid?

3. I got my first lock-up of LinuxCNC tonight. Which, how do I kill it when that happens? I was trying to use the straight cut feature, clicked start cut, it tried 3 times for a valid arc, then paused, and locked up. I could still change the items in the run panel though, communication with the hypertherm worked. Eventually it crashed. Not sure if this is cut-recovery test related?

4. I had some issues where it wouldnt let me jog the table after the program was stopped for a few seconds afterward. This always was surrounding a paused condition (sometimes I was using F9, sometimes I was using the single cut from the Run panel) due to lack of valid arc, and hitting the max number of attempts. Again, not sure if this is cut-recovery related?

5. I also met a fire-breathing kangaroo. Not sure what happened here, but it tried to light off until infinity. Way past the 3 attempts, just kept trying and trying. More Video Evidence

(Edit)6. I cant jog after pressing F9.

Anyways, I posted this stuff here, because it was all found during the testing I was doing for the Arc-OK features I'm requesting. I'm beginning to fear being ousted for causing too much ruckus :laugh:

snowgoer540 wrote: Actually, I’m curious. What keys are you pressing to jog the table with the torch on? Because I’m pressing the arrow keys and it won’t move. It just cycles between the axis’ to touch off.

Just the arrow keys. I press F9 then it touches off then goes to cut height then I can jog the machine as normal. I have not updated my machine since the beginning of the year so maybe a update has changed this?

When you are cutting in manual mode (no cnc) the machine won't care about the ArcOK. Its provided to tell the CNC controller what is going on. But if the controller (Plasmac) does not account for how the machine functions correctly then the ball is in the controller's court. I would not expect AcOK to be forced on for expanded metal mode when there is no arc. It will probably turn on when it is traversing material. It would be interesting to know that after your weekend adventure.

snowgoer540 wrote: Arc-OK does not stay on in CPA mode, at least not with FineCut tips, I will try regular tips tomorrow or Saturday. As soon as it loses the arc-ok signal, it pauses.

OK, so it seems all machines are different...

2. I met Rod's Kangaroo. Circumstances: I forgot to enable the torch. Pressed F9, it ohmic sensed until infinity. Video Evidence . My stupidity, but maybe the software should let us know when we're trying to do something stupid?

I can emulate that in a sim so it should be fixable.

3. I got my first lock-up of LinuxCNC tonight. Which, how do I kill it when that happens? I was trying to use the straight cut feature, clicked start cut, it tried 3 times for a valid arc, then paused, and locked up. I could still change the items in the run panel though, communication with the hypertherm worked. Eventually it crashed. Not sure if this is cut-recovery test related?

When you say straight cut was it Single Cut from the run panel or a "manual" cut.?

4. I had some issues where it wouldnt let me jog the table after the program was stopped for a few seconds afterward. This always was surrounding a paused condition (sometimes I was using F9, sometimes I was using the single cut from the Run panel) due to lack of valid arc, and hitting the max number of attempts. Again, not sure if this is cut-recovery related?

So the system errored then paused and you couldn't jog?

5. I also met a fire-breathing kangaroo. Not sure what happened here, but it tried to light off until infinity. Way past the 3 attempts, just kept trying and trying.

That was a freeby, didn't you want it?

(Edit)6. I cant jog after pressing F9.

Me either

Anyways, I posted this stuff here, because it was all found during the testing I was doing for the Arc-OK features I'm requesting. I'm beginning to fear being ousted for causing too much ruckus :laugh:

I know you are just doing your job but I thought I told you that I wasn't bored.


From what I can see all these issues are related.

I think that I have witnessed 3,4,5