prepman
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Have not got my full speach back yet.
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prepman
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And,,,though this good?
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I know.
Are they only for these motorised cutters or can they be used with any cnc cutter?
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Runs my machine very well. has 50 standard shapes pre-loaded, Sheetcam has Post's for it.
Has better features than Torchmate by far, and more reliable
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Mine came with rails, first pix shows them, second pic not installed yet.
The yellow frame underneath is my construction.
Instead of selling & shipping the whole table, a large crate arrived with just the bridge (all electronics on it) and the rails.
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Easy to do, I make parts like that all the time.
it came with an oxy torch, and connections ready to hook up to your plasma.
so I attached my plasma to it, and we are running.
I made the oxy torch QC and have cut 1" plate with it so far.
I might be able to dig up the PDF drawing I made of the sides & water table I made for it.
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So are rail and just stepper drive ?
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Looks very similar to my starfire 2100 controller, with a slightly different layout of function buttons.
I'm not a great fan of the starfire controller, it "does the job" I suppose, but it's not particularly user friendly.
I'm not a great fan of the starfire controller, it "does the job" I suppose, but it's not particularly user friendly.
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Yes, "just stepper" drives.
They work well.
Erie Fred
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Mine does everything I've asked of it. What is yours not doing ?
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It works, its just awkward and feels like it was designed in the 90s.
Eg. Setting XY zero. You set zero, then move it for some reason, then it sets a new zero when you press start.
Or importing gcode from sheetCAM. Its far from intuitive, and has 3 extra steps that it shouldn't need.
Settings, corner acceleration, thc on/off, that sort of thing - very clunky and not well thought out.
The built in shape library works fairly well.
It doesn't have any torch height control integrated, but that's not the end of the world.
I suppose for a low cost standalone control it does the job.
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Mine doesn't act up when setting zero, and while the THC is a separate control, the 2 boxes play well together.
Is it walk upt to it and make parts ?
NO
But none I have operated are this way.
If you need "anyone can run it" , you will have too much automated, to where you can't do things you want that aren't "normal".
Steppers versus Servos.
It cut's parts.....
It's easy to troubleshoot, it doesn't need "tuned".
So it may not rapid just as fast nor cut very thin steel fast enough.
It works. Period.
It's NOT a laser, never will be.
But for the OP's parts, looks just fine to me.
FWIW I would not go with the cantilevered system, they take up twice as much room.
IIRC Brad has some time on one.
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If I've only got space....
It's interesting, I'd love to have one
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I'd be interested in photo's of what arrives, unless it's just the control panel as i'm looking for a control system unit for my build project.
Erie Fred, do you have a web link to the instruction manual for the panel???
