wrong scale thc of the z axis during cutting on qtplasmac

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26 Jul 2021 00:54 #215916 by phillc54

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billykid wrote:
today i got busy done a fresh install without touching anything left us, then installed master 2.9 copied my configuration and now plasmac.thc-feed-rate is 1500 without line in hal. everything seems to work, we need to let Tom know

I setup my machine with the IT locale and I get the same error, plasmac.thc-feed-rate is zero.

It is good that I can see the error, now I just have to find out why...

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26 Jul 2021 01:39 #215922 by phillc54

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billykid wrote:
today i got busy done a fresh install without touching anything left us, then installed master 2.9 copied my configuration and now plasmac.thc-feed-rate is 1500 without line in hal. everything seems to work, we need to let Tom know

I have pushed a fix for this. It seems it was a timing issue, the pin is now set later in the initialization sequence.
Why it didn't affect English language locales I have no idea...

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26 Jul 2021 06:48 #215932 by billykid

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just tried it now okay Thank you very much

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26 Jul 2021 11:50 - 26 Jul 2021 11:51 #215952 by sibista

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Hello

I added " setp plasmac.thc-feed-rate 10 " to .hal and now everything is ok. It looks like gui is not reading values.
Regards and thanks.

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26 Jul 2021 12:05 #215955 by phillc54

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sibista wrote:
Hello

I added " setp plasmac.thc-feed-rate 10 " to .hal and now everything is ok. It looks like gui is not reading values.
Regards and thanks.

Are you using version 1.0.56?

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26 Jul 2021 13:46 #215956 by sibista

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I just installed 1.0.56 and it works without this command. Thc is now responsive to speed change. Problem has been solved. thanks a lot

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26 Jul 2021 16:40 #215965 by billykid

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today I made a few cuts it seems everything is fine. I have the 50: 1 ratio divider, with 90 volts of arc they arrive 1.6 on the thc, it will be better to put a 20: 1 or it doesn't matter?

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26 Jul 2021 16:55 #215966 by snowgoer540

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billykid wrote:
today I made a few cuts it seems everything is fine. I have the 50: 1 ratio divider, with 90 volts of arc they arrive 1.6 on the thc, it will be better to put a 20: 1 or it doesn't matter?

Which THCAD do you have? It really comes down to "resolution". For example, if you have a THCAD-10, and your cut voltage is measured to be 100v, then at 50:1, the THCAD would read 2.0 volts. This is only 20% of the available range for the THCAD. By the same logic, if you are cutting at 100v at 20:1 then your voltage at the THCAD would be 5.0 volts. Now you are using 50% of the range for the THCAD. This gives you higher resolution.

So, I would use the combination that uses the greatest voltage range of the THCAD without maxing it out constantly. For Hypertherm, the max cutting voltage is somewhere around 150v.

Here is a long-winded post I've made in the past on the same subject: forum.linuxcnc.org/plasmac/39999-thcad-1...powermax45-xp#181612

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26 Jul 2021 17:11 #215967 by billykid

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sorry for not specifying it, i have thcad 10. I had built the divider together with an analog thc many years ago now I modify it. my plasma cut to 94 volts but more than 25 amps i can't push i only have 3 kw ... but it's a good inverter with pfc not chinese, pneumatic torch s45.

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26 Jul 2021 20:26 #215984 by billykid

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Since it is a small generator the arc voltage is 92-94 from 20 to 35 amps and about 250 volts at no load, I change the divider to make 20: 1 should be okay.

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