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7 years 9 months ago #125492 by Grotius
Rod,

Sorry my mistake. I used the dynamic externall offset as a template. Today i programmed a oxyfuel machine with 2 oxyfuel floating head's with separate carrier's. So i had to take a look at the orginal externall offset files.

How is your progress with the THC?

I saw also the gain is important, it was issued before in this thread.
But multiple floating head's is no problem. In windows you cannot do this.... :laugh:

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7 years 9 months ago #125498 by rodw
Grotius, I have not done any more other than to do some programming to revise my component that reads the MESA THCAD torch voltage. I hope to have a play over the weekend as I have some prototype parts I want to cut for a product that has been really hard work designing in CAD. I thought it might be a good idea to roll up all of the voltage processing into one component so added a moving average feature to it. I posted the averaging code on Phill's thread, but here it is again
Warning: Spoiler!


Andy says there is an easier way to approximate the result but this was fun to program. Once you understand how pointers are being used in this example you shall be the top of your C class! Hint, we are using a circular buffer so the oldest sample will be the one in front of the position we are at now.

I want to use this moving average to set a base line for kerf crossing sensing. I will try using it as the torch voltage signal as well.

I still have to migrate my experiments back into my main plasma config so I can use my sheetcam postprocessor which is quite different to the axis experiments. I was hoping I could get that done this weekend, but I have a lot of other stuff to get done.

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7 years 9 months ago #125502 by Grotius
Rod,

I want to give you a reminder.
When i added a secondairy floating head today. It was connected in 3 lines of hal code. B)

Maybe you must try my config. It's mesa pre configured.

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7 years 9 months ago #125503 by rodw
Yes, I would be interested in trying your config now we are using the same plasma hardware. Feel free to email me.

I'm really at the stage the experiments need to stop for a while so I can cut some parts. It won't take long to copy my eoffset settings across to my config but it predates the latest eoffset example that includes a LIB hal file to make all of the connections and simplifies configuration. It would be good to revise my config to use the current standard as it will be easier to maintain long term.

This one is holding me up. A bash plate for a 4WD that makes more room for a relocated swaybar

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I've already made the swaybar relocators and had the aluminium anodised. This was cut on a CNC mill by my neighbour.


I'm not very good with sheetmetal designs.

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7 years 9 months ago - 7 years 9 months ago #125507 by Grotius
I contact you by mail. Source coding is still on github, but out of sight. It includes eo and reverse feed. You need to connect your mesa yourself.

Are that automotive parts for your company?
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7 years 9 months ago #125524 by rodw

Grotius wrote: I contact you by mail. Source coding is still on github, but out of sight. It includes eo and reverse feed. You need to connect your mesa yourself.

Are that automotive parts for your company?


Mesa should be OK.Yes the parts are for my business. I have an unregistered brand new Toyota Hilux Revo in my work shop that is a Second Stage of Manufacture compliance project to get around the ludicrous compliance rules we have in this country. I keep finding problems that need a plasma cutter to solve. I've even designed some rubber parts which are cut out with a waterjet for it!

I did not have a very good day today. I've been revising my gmoccappy config and have a limit switch problem in that config but not elsewhere. Then I had a brutal lesson about water in the air supply. I do have a dessicant drier and 3 filters on the plasma cutter but it isn't enough.

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