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    Directions For New IGaging Planer DRO

    Had a 12" IGaging DRO on my planer for several years. Accidentally broke it, and replaced it with the new version, the EZ View DRO Plus. As usual, the supplied directions absolutely suck, and I am having a problem achieving what I want. All I want is to set the preset, and have it activated. I have no problem actually setting the preset, that is achieved the same way as it did in the old version. My problem is having the value I inserted become the value I see on the screen. I eventually get it right, however, I am never sure what action I took to get it there. After I exit the preset update mode, the screen goes to, I believe, the incremental mode. Pressing the INC button does not take me to the value I just inputted, something else comes up, I have no idea where the value came from. I then press the 0 button, and I will, sometimes, get the value displayed I am looking for. I find it quite frustrating, and have googled the issue every way I can think of, but have not found any definitive guide.
    Anyone figured out the new devices?
    Mike

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    I hope you get an answer! I just went through the same scenario when i
    needed to make a slight adjustment to what the display was showing on mine. Had to change the preset.

    Somehow accomplished it but don’t know what I did to finally make it happen.

    Took me several tries...
    Too much to do...Not enough time...life is too short!

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    I don't know if I am answering your question or not. The iGaging doesn't have the little setting step like a Wixey so "zeroing" is actually accomplished by setting a known value, yes?

    With the DRO not calibrated to any particular value I plane some material and measure the result, let's say 1-9/16".
    I then zero the display and detach the traveler mount so that I can move the traveler without moving the part of the machine that it attaches to.
    I move the traveler (which is now zeroed) till it reads 1-9/16" (or 1.5625").
    I zero the display again and move the traveler back until it reads 1-9/16" in the other direction. This returns the traveler to where it was BUT, the display now reads the correct value.
    Reattach the traveler to the part of the machine that moves it and you're all set.
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    Glen,

    With the iGaging DRO, you plane a piece and measure the thickness. This measurement becomes the preset number.

    You enter the thickness you measured (the preset) into the iGaging display, which sets that value as the position of the sensor head at that point in time and space. This works quite well, without having to make any physical adjustments, other than setting the planer head to a position that will cut the wood.

    The problem that Mike and I (and probably many others) have is that it is not clear what the keystrokes (actually button pushes) are to make this happen. After trying several times, at least in my case, it seems possible to end up having the unit accept the preset number, but it becomes a “WOW, it finally worked” moment.” Followed by a “what did I do to get it to take the preset???” moment.

    Then everything works fine until there is a need to change or enter a new preset number, at which time it becomes a struggle again, because you never figured out how you got the preset to be accepted previously. But eventually you succeed again, without understanding what you did to make it happen.

    I assume Mike’s experience is similar to what mine has been.

    It it would be nice to know the exact sequence of button pushes required to make the unit accept the preset number. As it is now, once you get the preset number into the unit, you don’t want to mess with it anymore, for fear you will mess it up and not easily get things resolved a second time.

    Bill

    edit: I said after trying several times, but in fact it may take many, many tries, depending on how lucky you are...

    2nd edit: I think my issue was the same as Mike's. Getting the display to work properly. Like I said, it gets frustrating, and once you get it to work properly you don't remember what you did to make it work properly...
    Last edited by Bill Space; 02-14-2019 at 10:35 AM.
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    Not only is it frustrating, it is purely unprofessional how the whole concept of instructions and support for the product has been ignored. One of the buttons is labelled "Set". What it does is a mystery.
    I must say, fairly typical of products straight from the orient with no North American intermediary. I know it states they are in California, but it is obvious that location does not do anything about the lack of proper grammar, clarity of explanations, or relevance of the instructions.
    Last edited by Mike Chalmers; 02-15-2019 at 7:08 PM.
    Mike

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