Rods "Spaceship" Scratch built Plasma Cutter build

Well, it's xnarnon's fault. He wanted to see a version of my new plasma accessory so here it is. I'm sure he'lll be horified by the state of the control panel.



So this is whats been cutting into my plasma development time for the last couple of weeks and its going to be a while longer. It was a pretty big job to get the 3 phase circuit wired to it and then there were a few odd errors being reported.

I had the Ikon technician call today and sort it out and show me how its meant to work. But before that on Friday I fired it up to find the hydraulic pump was not turning on when the switch was flicked so I borrowed a spare unused switch on the control panel so it was up and running for the technician's visit. Then I tried to clean the touch screen becasue somebody complained about fingerprints! And I had problems with that afterwards. Its not a particularly robust PC so after talking to the tech, I marked it down for an upgrade. Finally, I managed to buy a copy of Windows 10 and install it onto an odroid H2+ and order an Asus touch screen the correct size..

The tech showed me what to copy over to the machine so by the end of the day, I had the Ikon controller running on an Odroid!

I had just enough time to review the faulty hydraulics switch. We had decided this was a safety issue as the fail safe key switch was bypassed. I need to double check, but I think I found the issue. When the electrician tidied up, he put a couple of plastic covered screw terminals over some loose wires to keep them safe in case they were connected to mains power. Sure enough when I traced the wires from the switch back, one of them had a shiny new terminal on the end! Well that's tomorrows phone call! I'll get the sparky back to sort that out!

So the touch screen has shipped, so it will be interesting to see how well I can put it all back together.

So hopefully, we'll get it sorted in the next week or so.

Hi, Rodw.
Do you have the maintenance manual for your Amada to adjust the punch and die to compensate for difference in penetration?
I have here if you wantand can share it!
Where i work we have 2press breake from Amada, one i put one VFD to control the backgauge.

Himarc3D wrote: Hi, Rodw.
Do you have the maintenance manual for your Amada to adjust the punch and die to compensate for difference in penetration?
I have here if you wantand can share it!
Where i work we have 2press breake from Amada, one i put one VFD to control the backgauge.

No we don't. Its no longer relevant as the top punch and the bottom die are programmed into the Presstek NC controller via a touch screen. Then Presstek is calibrated to the top of the die. See icontrol.net.au/ for the software
Watch the videos on that site. The software runs on any windows PC. I think using it as a retrofit would transform your presses. it seems very powerful and highly productive, designed for a production workflow...

I think you misunderstood me because my english isnt good...
The machine you have i think just control the bottom pressure (patented by amada here in japan and worldwide, simple mechanism very, very efficient because its simple) new machine models you can control individual punchs pressure and open/close too individually. In Japan Amada ITS is called RG series.

drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEcO4WWsUvNtX2P...f4c/view?usp=sharing

check the technical manual at 18-3 section its about what im talking, but for small bend like the one you made in the video its indifferent but if you pretend to use the entire length maybe you need the proper calibration, if you check using the dial gauge and after that you cant make all punchs 0 (maybe its already 0 all) you can align the bottom center or just use the warraty and let who sold do it, its time consuming the calibration of bottom maybe who sold it can do it.

Sorry, that was my misunderstanding. Yes I found that document, printed out and saved a copy. I did see that calibration diagram. I have not really used the machine to know if that calibration is out. And yes, what I folded was just some scrap material from a plasma job. Until I get that part recut and need to fold it, I won't really know. I think it will be rare for us to want to fold a part more than a single die block (835 mm) long.

No sorry. im very gratefull for you guys, really.
I think its nice to know if you can use all, who knows the future...if you get some customer that need some kind of ducts, heater or anything...just after you accept the job you find you cant make it after you give your word isnt nice, right.
we had this problem here using ITS 103 but we figured out, Amada support avoid touch old type machines...the technical staff come 2 times and didn't solved the problem, after we did it. They tried to sell new machine to us using the government subsidy...