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    Hi Everyone.
    I've had my plasma CNC table working for a few months, however today it has stopped playing ball.

    I have a driver which is the PM542 model.
    The BOB is the ZP5A-INT Breakout board from Zapp Automation

    I can boot the system fine and manually home the 3 axis, I then start the code running and notice when the plasma pierces there is a lot of interference on the CRT tube screen I'm currently using. Once the pierce has finished the screen is fine.
    However during a pierce, one axis will stop.
    The screen shows everything all fine and dandy, but the cut is a straight line.

    If I disconnect power to the power supply and therefore the drivers\BOB it seems to "reset" and be fine.... until another pierce, not all pierces, but enough to ruin the job.

    I suspect there is some sort if interference when the pierce takes place, the BOB\drivers are mounted to a board that is above the PC, but below the table and directly next to the plasma cutter.

    Does this sound plausible?
    Should move\shield the drivers\BOB from the plasma cutter\PC ?

    Any ideas how to stop this from happening?

    All advice greatly received.

    ---More info---

    I have plugged the plasma cutter into a scocket on a differnt wiring ring to the PC and things *seem* to be better. I'm loosing a few steps now instead of the whole thing crashing, which is certainly better but still not perfect.
    The losses definately happen when the arc is being struck.
    Any ideas?

    Dan


    Last edited by gr8fun; 07-10-2014 at 06:43 PM. Reason: More info

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