Well well well, wifey wants a PLASMA cutter

[turbomacncheese (Tony)]

Useful links/reference post: These have TONS of information, and form the basis of my assumptions and current understanding.

http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/plasma/plasma-cnc-primer.html
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxCNC_Supported_Hardware

SOMD - Lowrider Plasma CNC

[attachment file=100812] Here’s the build log for my Lowrider CNC Plasma/Router combo. Specs Update: There is now a 48"x48"x3" water pan installed while plasma cutting to keep the smoke down. After a few tries of sealing leaks, it is now operational and much much better than cutting on open slats. The garage no longer hazes up with conductive metal dust which can damage other electronics, and I am no longer inhaling all of it! I would highly suggest adding a water table if you are doing any s…

Lowrider2 Plasma Build

Buildin a lowrider. Gunna strap a plasma torch on it. Hopefully it’ll work. Hopefully it’ll be awesome. The table is finally starting to look like something. I think it needs racing stripes. [IMG_20200103_144042634] 4’x4’+ cutting area. I’ll be running linuxcnc with the plasmac configuration, a mesa 7i96 ethernet breakout board and a mesa thcad-10 for torch height control. I’m closely mirroring @uthayne’s build. I’ve been picking his brain for months now.

Plasma cutter.

Hypertherm is a great company and they have excellent support. The trade off is that you pay for it. We use ESAB at work, and they are also top notch. Square wave A/C is the real deal. Also not available on most budget machines like what we usually discuss here

Plasma - Lowrider v2 (questions about both)

Hi All, I’m planning to build a plasma Lowrider V2 and have a few questions regarding picking the parts and the design of both. The end goal is to keep to a very strict budget without cutting corners, so I’m trying to research the crap out of my design to ensure I get the best possible value out of everything (I’m a bit of a scrooge). Firstly to get it out of the way, the question regarding plasma. Plasma HF - RF Emissions I’ve seen a couple of plasma builds on here and researched other pla…

Plasma tech discussion

I figured that I’d start this discussion so that we can all hammer out some technical points when/ if/ before one of us actually gets a plasma torch attached to an MPCNC. To start, there really isn’t a standard feedrate- amperage setting table that we can go off of because it’s highly dependent on your make and model of plasma cutter. There was a discussion about this very issue a while back on an off-road 4x4 forum that I frequent and for our purposes, it’ll get us started and give us some ta…