Morning
When I went out to the welder, the gun had already been pulled and inspected. There was nothing wrong with it. Rich ran it for a little while and came to the conclusion that it needs feedback from the main beam current for sure. The cathode will become too hot from the beam at higher powers and the beam will run away from you. He called Tim down to talk about the changes. We got an operator to weld on those boxes. Tim went over all the controls and discussion with Rich. Then Jim came down to get the wiring changes we will need including a new pot for the spot focus. I talked with him about the welder project, then I continued to work on the work bench Compact Logix.
Afternoon
The work bench wasn't working. After I got the firmware to update, I attempted to put something on the output to read with the oscilloscope. It kept giving me some I/O communication faults. I think they stem from not having and end cap to terminate the internal bus. Regardless, I can't get it working for right now. I asked Lyon, and also went to the stock room. I'll try again in the mean time. I started writing the documentation on the beam patterns because if nothing else I can provide a document to show how to get this stuff to work.
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