Chinese wireless probe

Mill
1

Has anyone purchased and installed one of these cheap wireless probes

https://tinyurl.com/bdhv7md7

Paul

2

But what will you measure your frustration with?
I mean for $8 you know it’s just going to work 1 time. I am thinking you will need at least 3 touches to calibrate it.
Now if your buying it to take all the guys out and just use the shell for your own internal parts you can’t beat the price.
Wow I just looked at this again. The first time I saw the price as $7. Lol.

I have a hard enough Time trusting my tormach probe. I guess it depends what you are making. If you just want to find a corner and machine from there. You will probably be ok but if you are trying to flip parts and touch off from reference points it’s probably going to be rough. If you do get one you should definitely double check it with a dial gauge the first few times.

3

I see wires on there wireless probe? I use a wired China probe and really like it. Repeatability better than < 0.001 inch. I’ve used it for quite a while with no problems. The probe didn’t directly work with Tormach and required some modifications. I found another replacement on sale for $40, I have a backup! A 3D probe is a must have with a mill.

4

I had looked at this exact one at some point to be able to do automated Fusion360 probing as opposed to building a PCB and to setup TX/RX for the existing Tormach probe.

USB charger for the probe, which is expected. The receiver has a ton of wires for all the combinations of PNP, NPN, NO, and NC…so, it should work on just about any machine…

5

Ashraf
The wire
Do you intend to buy one

paul

6

I have the wired Tormach probe.

In the grand scheme of things, I am not sure I want to invest more time and funds into these upgrades making this mill try to operate like an MX series when the more I try to push the limits, I am realizing that I probably need to go up to a larger mill.

  1. I also am not sure I want to deal with China support on this item. I’ve got and kept 0.001” repeatability on the Tormach probe and have not had to recalibrate it in a while and rely on it (I chose probe and didn’t buy a Haimer).

  2. I had a reliable ATC until I realized my PDB was loose when I ran into some tool holder pull out. I have been working on readjusting everything again after tightening it back up to spec and then maybe I will trust the ATC at full velocity tool changes to feel confident enough to have it change out a probe stored in the ATC…

I recently ran a two op job right at the Y-axis limits. Not fun having to position the vise and work exactly in the center of work envelope to mill a 5.9” diameter circle. Yes, it is doable but not fun compared to having a larger work envelope…