OK... yes I know about off topic and this is about half way there but I see so many discussions on standard deviation during tip qualification, they so often dive down a rabbit hole of how many hits on how many levels and touch speeds... the discussion will often not be complete until somebody brings in prime numbers.
I'm chiming in to say before you do any of that check your hardware... this adapter at first gave me all the symptoms that people blame on a module that is going bad. First couple days I could not get good SD then I watched it and calibration offsets floated around a few thou at first and my results correlating to other probes was an issue.
First I rebuilt the star probe thinking it was moving around...nothing.
Cleaned everything and re-calibrated... still no change.
Started to blame a bad module but then the error grew beyond what I could believe for that.
Closer examination finds the adapter coming apart... apparently these are only glued in from the factory. It is an older Tesa but Hexagon bought this stuff and it crosses over to some HA- number now.
Anyway yeah sorry if you say this is off topic but enough people run these things with pcdmis that it is worth knowing how poorly these are built from new, and watch for this along with loose tips etc... this had me chasing my tail for a while until it came apart enough to detect... last thing I expected
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I'm chiming in to say before you do any of that check your hardware... this adapter at first gave me all the symptoms that people blame on a module that is going bad. First couple days I could not get good SD then I watched it and calibration offsets floated around a few thou at first and my results correlating to other probes was an issue.
First I rebuilt the star probe thinking it was moving around...nothing.
Cleaned everything and re-calibrated... still no change.
Started to blame a bad module but then the error grew beyond what I could believe for that.
Closer examination finds the adapter coming apart... apparently these are only glued in from the factory. It is an older Tesa but Hexagon bought this stuff and it crosses over to some HA- number now.
Anyway yeah sorry if you say this is off topic but enough people run these things with pcdmis that it is worth knowing how poorly these are built from new, and watch for this along with loose tips etc... this had me chasing my tail for a while until it came apart enough to detect... last thing I expected
adapter.jpg
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