Ok, well, upon much research, I bought a used plasmacam dhc-1 that was just sitting around in a friends shop. I NEED THE DHC2 UPGRADE, because the
And, honestly, its made a few parts, I learned the software in about 2 mins, and was up and cutting.. But, I seem to have only two choices right now, and both suck pretty badly:
1) Set the torch to manual on the sheet metal and get some cuts that are not so good and consumables go quick and tram and shim the sheet metal every time to ensure that its perfectly flat in relationship to the table during the cut OR
2) Mess around for 30mins trying to set the DHC parameters, get them working ok, and the thing STILL crashes the material at some point OR it sits too high, or it just freaks out and does whatever the hell, I reset it and use the same parameters, and then its happy?!?
My question is, can I use a proper ohmic height control module and just hook it to the current DHC motor? Or is there another trick possibly to retrofit to some DHC that is more reliable?
Anyone use a standalone THC controller/servo setup and retrofit it onto a plasmacam? This is the route that currently seems the most reliable.. Like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/CNC-Plasma-T...item417525fa36
Or THIS:http://www.cnc4pc.com/Store/osc/prod...008362ce2eebda
$800 for rock solid torch height control? May need to get this... Its would probably cost me 1k or more to upgrade to DHC2 anyway, and then I have to send parts back?! Pfft..