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Global S Green - New machine !

Smasherofprobes
Hey guys!

The company I work for has decided to upgrade our machine after watching me pull all my hair out and bought me a brand new Global S (Green). Not bad moving from a Ph9 up to a HP-S-X1. This new technology is amazing!

I'm like a kid in a candy store looking at all the accessories. ( I even have a probe rack now Sunglasses )

I'm assuming that some of you have this same machine, how good of a job has it done for you ? or what have you heard about these Global S Green machines ? They are not cheap !

Thanks
  • in reply to bfire85
    The company will be sending me for scanning training Slight smile Super exciting !
  • Just got one of these last month. So far it's worked great! We don't do any scanning, but everything else works flawlessly.

    My only gripe is that the workstation that came with it is poorly designed. I have to remove the controller from the back of it just to access the back panel of the computer! Angry
  • Just got one of these last month. So far it's worked great! We don't do any scanning, but everything else works flawlessly.

    My only gripe is that the workstation that came with it is poorly designed. I have to remove the controller from the back of it just to access the back panel of the computer! Angry

    Yeah, for the most part I like the desk, but we have a big tower PC that doesn't fit in the cabinet. So, the computer sits on the floor next to the controller. It's nice because we don't have the issue you have, but it would be ideal if the desk were designed to accomadate a big performance PC.
  • Hey guys!
    The company I work for has decided to upgrade our machine after watching me pull all my hair out and bought me a brand new Global S (Green). Not bad moving from a Ph9 up to a HP-S-X1. This new technology is amazing!


    I'm not sure what you are upgrading from, but it sounds like quite a step up if it had a PH9 and no probe rack. It is always fun to have new toys!

    We have had a Global S for about a year and a half now. It moves and scans so much faster than our old Brown and Sharp Globals. It's a little on the noisy side when rapiding around at full speed - like a sports car flooring it from one stop light to another. It can be quite startling at times Slight smile.

    Ours has been awesome when it runs, but there have been soooo many problems with it. Several cards in the controller have been replaced and eventually the whole controller, cabinet and all, was replaced. Then a few boards were replaced in that. I think they finally got it all sorted out and we have been running good for a few months now. The most recent theory was that the firmware was having issues with the SP25 probe we are using, it has been updated now to hopefully address the problem. It probably wasn't as thoroughly tested as with the Hexagon probes. Your experience will likely be much better with all Hexagon branded components.

    Enjoy the new toy. And I agree with bfire85, take advantage of those scanning capabilities!​
  • in reply to Cris_C
    Thank you for your input Cris, I will monitor these issues that you have brought up. Just so you know I'm using an old DEA IOTA 1203? (I think that's my model) Quite the upgrade!!
  • in reply to JesseB413
    Ya the Workstation is a little small and the setup in the back is a little bit backwards.
  • Something to think about and from what we have learned to keep your runtimes from getting long winded due to the way the HP-S-X1 records the measurement (on retract) is to turn FASTPROBE/ON. I've done some testing and correlation studies here (we are medical) and by turning FASTPROBE/ON and slowing the touch speed down I can still maintain the program runtime. Scanning can and will reduce your time too.

    I was told (by a Hexagon AE) that we would lose accuracy but from the correlation studies that we did we lost nothing. Same CMM, same part and same probe builds with several programs ran with FASTPROBE/OFF then again with FASTPROBE/ON.

    FASTPROBE/OFF ran at 8+ minutes vs. FASTPROBE/ON at a little over 7 minutes. One doesn't think a minute is much but over 24/6 that makes a difference.

    Our parts have tolerances anywhere from +/-0.25mm down to +/-0.010mm.
  • Something to think about and from what we have learned to keep your runtimes from getting long winded due to the way the HP-S-X1 records the measurement (on retract) is to turn FASTPROBE/ON. I've done some testing and correlation studies here (we are medical) and by turning FASTPROBE/ON and slowing the touch speed down I can still maintain the program runtime. Scanning can and will reduce your time too.

    I was told (by a Hexagon AE) that we would lose accuracy but from the correlation studies that we did we lost nothing. Same CMM, same part and same probe builds with several programs ran with FASTPROBE/OFF then again with FASTPROBE/ON.

    FASTPROBE/OFF ran at 8+ minutes vs. FASTPROBE/ON at a little over 7 minutes. One doesn't think a minute is much but over 24/6 that makes a difference.

    Our parts have tolerances anywhere from +/-0.25mm down to +/-0.010mm.

    Out of curiosity, what do you have your touchspeed at with fast probe mode on?
  • in reply to bfire85
    When we have all PFx's and a Performance with TP2s/TP20s touchspeed was 5mm/sec for everything (I worked here from 2006-2015 then left for 6 years and came back 1.5 years ago). Nothing changed when they started buying the new CMMs so all of the old programs are still measuring at 5mm/sec and we have pretty much always shown correlation with our customers. One customer requires correlation to be within 25% of feature tolerance for acceptance for all new product launches or we can't ship product. I think that the touchspeed of 5mm/sec is a moot point because of measurement being taken at retract but I think if hitting the surface at 10mm/sec or faster you may be getting some error but I've never measured a part that fast
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