Torch height control

[2x4]

Is gSender suitabe for plasma controlling? Can it be made to do THC and trigger the torch?

[Spamming_Eddie]

Hey 2x4,

Welcome to the forum where everything that can happen has happened, and if it did not, it will. To answer your question.. I don’t know.. geezs, that sounds dangerous and interfery and breaky electronicsy. I go with no.. nonono you cannot do plasmacutting with my hobby pile, no way uhuh.

And then you start digging and you learn.. you can.. using gsender and all.

Longmill CNC Plasma Cutter First Cut

This is the first cut with the Longmill CNC plasma cutter. I used Inkscape to design the file, and Vetcric Vcarve Desktop to create the tool path. Then I used G-Sender to send the g-code to the Longmill CNC plasma. [Longmill CNC Plasma cutter First Cut]

No waaaaay!

*if thc can be done is not clear, the topic does not go that deep.

[jmaree]

Gsender will run a plasma system just fine. The only thing is, the control software, what ever you plan to use, is not what runs the THC. The THC does that on its own. The THC is the device that measures the voltage of the ARC from the plasma and adjusts the “Z” height directly.

I still have not got a THC to put on my system yet. They are around $400.00. So that said. I do use Gsender to control my plasma table.

[2x4]

Thanks for clarifying that the THC is completely independent. I had assumed that it was just a sensor that send a Z-axis signal via the control software.