TP1-IR
No cable to the spindle. Infrared to the receiver. The same 0.005 mm, every time.
Built for the shop floor.
Stainless body, IP65 against coolant emulsion, oil and chips, and a steel conduit available over the cable.
Fast in, fast out.
Probing at up to 2 m/min, with Touch two milliseconds behind the stylus. Long stylus included.
Configured in minutes.
One switch sets the output. It lands on Siemens, Heidenhain, Fanuc, Haas, Mach3 or LinuxCNC the same way.
Coolant, chips, and the odd collision.
The probe is stainless steel and sealed to IP65: coolant emulsion, cutting oil, swarf and shop dust stay outside it, and the seal is what holds the kinematic seat clean enough to repeat. The cable to the receiver can be run inside a steel conduit, so a hot chip landing across it does not end the shift.
- Protection
- IP65
- Working temperature
- +10 to +40 °C
It has already told the control.
Touch follows the stylus by two milliseconds, or three on the first deflection, while the probe comes out of standby. So you can come in at rapid, probe at up to 2 m/min and take the next point without waiting for anything to settle, on a long stylus as readily as a short one.
- Probing speed
- 2 m/min
- Touch follows at
- 2 ms
It speaks your machine’s language.
One switch on the receiver board sets the output the way your control expects it: normally open or normally closed, PNP, NPN or push-pull. Touch and Ready leave on a 5 m cable, on anything from 5 to 24 VDC, so Siemens, Heidenhain, Fanuc, Haas, Mitsubishi, Mach3 and LinuxCNC are all three sliders and a terminal block away.
- Supply
- 5 – 24 VDC
- Cable
- 5 m
Nothing in the way.
The signal leaves the probe as 950 nm infrared and reaches the receiver up to 5 m away, on direct line of sight. No cable to route down the spindle, nothing to snag in a tool change, nothing to replace when it is cut.
- Range
- 5 m
- Infrared
- 950 nm
Awake the moment you touch it.
Deflect the stylus and the probe wakes, transmits, and drops back to standby after the idle time you set. One SAFT LS14250 lasts around 800 days waiting and around 150 hours measuring.
- Standby
- ≈ 800 days
- Operating
- ≈ 150 h
Stylus, Touch, Ready. In that order.
Output signal timing
Two things to decide. Nothing to look up.
The output is two choices: how it rests, and how it drives. Both are made on one switch on the receiver, with the legend printed beside it. No control-specific variant to order, nothing to solder, and nothing that has to be right before the probe ships.
- Signal state
- NO · NC
- Signal type
- PNP · NPN · Push-Pull
Set on the switch on the receiver’s board, where the legend is printed too.
Two parameters, set with the stylus itself.
P1 matches the infrared duty cycle to the distance you work at. P2 sets how long the probe stays awake before it sleeps. Both are entered by touching the stylus and read back by the LED on the probe. No software, no cable, nothing to connect.
- P1 · Duty cycle of the IR LED
- 10 % – 50 %
- P2 · Transition to standby
- 1 min – 20 min
And the numbers, for the record.
- Repeatability
- 0.005 mm
- Range
- 5 m
- Protection
- IP65
- Directions
- ±X, ±Y, -Z
Put it in the spindle.
The TP1-IR ships as a probe. An M4 stylus, the CS16 clamping shank and the BP58 base plate are ordered alongside it. Order them together and the assembly arrives centred, ready for the machine.
