Anything welding

I have a ton of shit in my storage in another city...but I'm pretty sure I have one of my dad's old flashlights in my battery and flashlight bin here at home

Gimme a few

 

An old Winchester





About to go raw in this bitch once my leads arrive

 

Could you talk the service manual out of them??

 

No need, nothing is wrong with the plasma cutter itself

It was the VIM box I posted earlier; it receives power from the plasma cutter and communicates with the control box on the cnc table for torch height control reasons

I'm wiring it up as we speak since I found my CAT III plugs

 

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She's done



Time to shower, mix a drink, and relax the rest of the day

 

I am really surprised at that job you did .

It is just a quick temporary patch?

Showing that Plasma machine in such dirty condition just does not seem like you.

Bad day in the Salt mine.

 

Whatchu talkin bout Willis



Cleaned her up before I left the garage

This is an "alternative" method...or shall I say "preferred" method for tapping for a signal to control torch height

The method I was using is divided voltage 50:1 with the use of pins 4 and 6 via CPC port in the back

Pins 1 and 2 are used for torch on and off



I chose that route as the plasma cutter is supplied with a plug in which you solder your own wires; I wanted a "professional installation"

Having solder experience, I made a nice clean cable to utilize the divided voltage output not to mention the torch on off switch



Here's an old picture of last year when I first put the cable together



Anyway now I'm raw so I will be utilizing the other part of the VIM module in hopes that it doesn't burn out again

If I were to guess, I'd say there was a voltage spike and that caused the resistor to burn out

Also if you look closely at R9, there's a cold solder joint as there's an opening there on the left leg

 

Much better . Clean is better for pictures.

I thought you were using the 2 Meter leads through the side of the case.

 

I'm gonna go out on a limb.

I'm betting I can count on one hand the number of peeps who understood this post.

 

Yes, the leads will remain poking through the side as you have to manually tap into your plasma cutter for voltage

Here I circled the areas (one is hidden behind the front bezel) depicting where in the board I tapped



The new VIM box will be taped to the side of the panel with double sided tape and the leads will plug in there

The CPC plug in the back will be used only for torch on and off

Other plasma cutters aren't even CNC-friendly and you have to tap in for torch on and off as well as voltage

 

I thought my post was already the dumbed down version

 

@koditten or was it because I explained it in a dumb manner that was confusing

I can take criticism!

 

I would drill a hole in the case and use a insulated grommet when you receive your new VIM box.

I used to install machine torches where they were not an option and make the internal connections on many different machines.

All part of getting tables set up in the field so much better then oxy- fuel cutting radiographs I don`t miss that

 

That is an excellent suggestion; I've done that shit for car stereo installs through the firewall but didn't even think about it here

Mainly cause the vents I poked the wires through have smooth rounded edges

 

I think we were having our on conversation I under stood what you were saying.

 

As long as you were able to what else matters!

 

Gotcha

Yeah if you come back to this thread on the wrong page, things are way out of context

Have to go back to the beginning!

 

The thing is I always do then read through all the threads starting with the last one last time I logged on.

On all the threads I follow!

 

Fuck that's a lot of reading