Hey all, I just completed the table assemby, and initial test cuts. All is fine. So I downloaded a more complex cut from Fireshare - christmas trees. I’m getting the cleanest cuts ever coming from hand held cutting experiences only. Very happy. But I find the Post Time delay on my Best Arc BTC800XP is causing stops (potential missfire) when running the program. I can wait until my Post Delay time (3sec) is up and restart and finish the cuts overall. But I seek a way to tell crossfire that my torch needs 3 seconds to cool down before starting the next pierce/cut sequence. Google AI has interesting info, but nothing helpful. Appreciate the help of this great forum of users (RI=real intelegence 
Are you using a CAM program like SheetCAM, or just cutting the gcode file you downloaded from Fireshare?
Just the tap file from the download. Im ramping up on Fusion.
I think you’re stuck unless you’re willing to add the pause at the end of each cut manually. Not that bad to do if you only have a few contours, but maybe a lot harder to deal with if you’re talking about 100 cuts to add pauses to.
@Tobias Welcome to The forum.
I was looking at the manual.
In the CPC port there are pins for “CNC plug-in detection” I’m wondering if these pins will remove that delay or enable the torch to fire during the delay? It doesn’t say it directly in the manual but I can see that being one reason to have the CNC detection pins.
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Also looking in the manual it appears that they might be copy and pasting some text out of other manufacturers manual and not proofreading before publishing. 
Ha! Good catch. I looked at those connections but expected to see an input for those in the Firecontrol so it could read when the torch is ready.
Thanks. I am now dangerous with cut and paste in a gcode text editor. I put G4 P3.1 before every M3 to cause a 3.1 second delay before the next cut. Trying it soon.
It works. Thanks everyone. Next I’ll learn how to do this in Fusion or maybe write Bestarc a nice email asking for their experiences and recommendations.
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I’ve seen a few YouTubers review the Bestarc machines and have never heard of this issue.
Sheetcam will let you add a pause after each cut loop. Fusion does not have that function yet.
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I’m a fan of SheetCAM if you can swing paying for it into your budget. It works pretty well, and I can go from a dxf to a gcode file in less than a minute if it’s a material I have in the cut table and it doesn’t require any fancy tweaks to get the part to run like I want it to (things like if I need to be picky about pierce point placement).
If you’re willing to trade a little cash for convenience, it’s worth looking into.
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I do trade cash for convenience. Thank you. But it seems I need to get a Windows system to run it. Maybe in the future.
I’m running those channels down now. Thank you. I did see one channel where the crossfire pro was pausing 3 seconds after every cut. Hope they reply with how they did it.
As I said earlier, Sheetcam allows you to set a pause after each cut loop in the tool settings. You can easily set a 3 or 4 second pause after each cut, without needing to modify the the code.
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I’m not current on Apple computers, but can’t you use virtualization software that would allow you to run Windows programs?
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Yes. I have enough experience with those, although years ago, to know I don’t want that complexity in my life right now. I’ll wait to see if anyone else has fixed the problem another way before I decide to go that route. Thanks so much for the ideas.
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