Honeybee HBST2008LCD User manual

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Honeybee Portable CNC Cutting Machine
(Plasma)
Operator Manual
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CONTENT
CHAPTER 1 SAFETY AND WARNING ......................................................... 3
1.1 Machine Earthing...................................................................................................................................3
1.2 Safety and Warning Items.....................................................................................................................3
1.3 Safety Instruction...................................................................................................................................3
CHAPTER 2 PRODUCTION INTRODUCTION ................................................... 5
2.1 Product Outline.......................................................................................................................................5
2.2 Product Structure...................................................................................................................................5
2.3 Honeybee Portable CNC Cutting Machine Parameters...................................................................5
2.4 Usage of this Manual.............................................................................................................................6
CHAPTER 3 INSTALLATION ................................................................. 7
3.1 Open the packages and Check............................................................................................................7
3.2 Portable CNC Cutting Machine Installation........................................................................................7
CHAPTER 4 CONTROL PANEL AND FUNCTION .............................................. 14
4.1 Control Panel........................................................................................................................................14
4.2 CNC System Function.........................................................................................................................15
4.3 CNC System Technical Specification................................................................................................15
4.4 Function Key.........................................................................................................................................15
4.5 Order Keys............................................................................................................................................16
CHAPTER 5 OPERATION ................................................................... 19
5.1 Main Menu............................................................................................................................................19
5.2 Main Menu and Sub Menu..................................................................................................................20
5.3 Auto Mode Function Description........................................................................................................21
5.4 Function selection in AUTO mode.....................................................................................................22
5.5 Start of Automatic Mode......................................................................................................................25
5.6 Control and adjustment of cutting position in automatic mode......................................................26
5.7 ORI PATH RET(original path return).................................................................................................27
5.8 Breakpoint Restoration Process........................................................................................................28
5.9 SECTION(section selection)...............................................................................................................29
5.10 Manual Mode and Function Window...............................................................................................30
CHAPTER 6 EDIT MODE .................................................................... 33
6.1 Description of EDIT Menu...................................................................................................................33
6.2 Description of Programming Function...............................................................................................34
6.3 M Auxiliary Commands.......................................................................................................................35
CHAPTER 7 SETUP(PARAMETER SETTING) ................................................. 36
7.1Speed Parameters................................................................................................................................37
7.2 System Parameters.............................................................................................................................38
7.3 Control Parameters Setting................................................................................................................38

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CHAPTER 8 SHAPE LIBRARY .............................................................. 40
8.1 Shape Library Setting..........................................................................................................................40
8.2 Shapes Choose....................................................................................................................................40
8.3 Shape Parts Setting and Nest............................................................................................................40
CHAPTER 9 MAINTENANCE & TROUBLESHOOTING ......................................... 42
9.1 Daily Maintenance...............................................................................................................................42
9.2 Weekly Maintenance...........................................................................................................................42
9.3 Monthly Maintenance..........................................................................................................................42
9.4 Trouble Shooting..................................................................................................................................42
9.5 CNC Controller Troubleshooting........................................................................................................43
9.6 Common Plasma Malfunction and Trouble Shooting......................................................................46
APPENDIX 1: G CODE INSTRUCTION ......................................................... 51
APPENDIX 2: ERROR LIST ................................................................... 51
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Chapter 1 Safety and Warning
1.1 Machine Earthing
This machine must be earthed on worksite, or be earthed according to the earthing drawing.
1.2 Safety and Warning Items
1.2.1 This machine operations have to be performed by a well trained operator.
1.2.2 Electric Shock can injure or kill. Never touch any parts that are electrically “live” or “hot.”
1.2.3 Under flame cutting, gas resource or gas system leak may cause fire, burn or explosion accidents,
seriously harmful to persons and equipments.
1.2.4 Fire and hot slag may splash during cutting, please stay away from nozzles and ensure the
working area is free of flammable things, otherwise it may cause fire accidents, explosion and burn
hurting.
1.2.5 Under plasma cutting, fire and explosion can be caused by hot slag, sparks, or the plasma arc.
Stay away from nozzle when start.
1.2.6 Plasma Rays can injure your eyes and burn your skin. Wear protection glasses and protectioncloth.
1.2.7 Noise can harm your hearing, please wear protection earplug.
1.2.8 Gases and fumes produced during the plasma cutting process can be dangerous and hazardous
to your health. Keep all fumes and gases from the breathing area. Keep your head out of the welding
fume plume. Use an air-supplied respirator if ventilation is not adequate to remove all fumes and gases.
1.2.9 Ensure the machine and the workplace are safe before turn on the power supply.
1.2.10 Wear dry gloves and clothing. Insulate yourself from the work piece or other parts of the welding
circuit. Keep the working environment and machine dry.
1.2.11 Don’t cut any vessel with flammable substance.
1.2.12 Never use flammable and explosive tools to operate the machine.
1.2.13 Never retrofit or change the machine.
1.3 Safety Instruction
This instruction is only for reference, please execute according to related Safety Regulation.
1.3.1 Electric Shock Protection
①The machine must be earthed well, including switch plug, machine body, plasma power source and
other electric parts.
②Keep the operator body and his cloth, shoes and gloves dry.
③Don’t stand or sit on the wet workplace when operate the machine.
④Extra care must be taken when the workplace is moist or damp. Must ware insulated gloves, shoes
and necessary insulated material to keep the operator from electric shock.
⑤Repair or replace all worn or damaged parts.
⑥Naked wire connection terminals are dangerous, all terminals should not be naked.
⑦Must cut off power supply and wait for at least 2 minutes when change any electric parts. If plasma
power source, wait for at least 5 minutes.
⑧Don’t bypass or short any power source protection device, never retrofit or change wire connections.
⑨Must cut off the power supply when change plasma electrodes and nozzles.
1.3.2 Eye Protection

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①To protect your eyes, always wear a welding helmet or shield. Also always wear safety glasses with
side shields, goggles or other protective eye wear.
②Replace the protection glasses when the glasses damaged or defiled.
③Warn the persons who in the workplace, don’t see the strong light or plasma arc without eye
protection .
1.3.3 Skin Protection
①Wear welding gloves and suitable clothing to protect your skin from the arc rays and sparks.
②Wear safety gloves, shoes and hamlet.
③Cover all parts of your body.
④Wear closemouthed trousers to protect spark and hot slag.
1.3.4 oxic Gases and Fumes
①Use an air-supplied respirator if ventilation is not adequate to remove all fumes and gases.
②Don’t cut any materials which contain Cadmium, Antimony, Chromium, Mercury, Arsenic, Cobalt,
Nickel, Barium, Copper, Selenium, etc. If you have to, please wear gas defense mask and related gas
ventilation equipment.
③Don’t cut any vessel with poisoned substance. If you have to, please clean it and wear gas defense
mask.
1.3.5 Fire and Explosion
①When doing flame cutting, it will cause explosion if gas released because of gas pipe or connections,
or because of wrong operation. Check all gas connections and gas pipes before start work.
②The spark and hot slag produced during cutting may cause fire or explosion, too.
③The cutting workplace must be equipped with fire fighting devices, such as fire extinguisher, sand box
and water, etc.
④This machine operations have to be performed by a well trained operator.
⑤The flammable and explosive material must be kept over 10meters away from the cutting machine.
⑥Never cut any flammable and explosive vessels, never cut in flammable and explosive circumstance,
never cut pressure vessels or other close-in vessels.
⑦When use underwater or semi-dry work table for cutting aluminum, hydrogen will be produced and
stored in the work table and may cause hydrogen explosion, must equip exhaust pipe device.
1.3.6 Gas Regulation Valve
①Don’t use bad quality and easy damaged gas regulation valve, it will hurt operator.
②Don’t use gas-released regulation valve.
③Don’t use oil to lubricate gas regulation valve.
1.3.7 Gas Tank
①Don’t use gas-released or damaged gas tanks.
②Don’t put the gas tanks upside down or unsafe.
③Don’t remove or transport gas tanks without safe valve.
④Don’t use oil to lubricate gas tanks.
⑤Don’t use hammer or other tools to beat or open the gas tanks.
1.3.8 Gas Pipe
①Honeybee use universal standard pipes, the oxygen pipe is blue, gas pipe is red. Never mix them.
②If gas pipe is aging, or damaged and burned, replace it at once no matter it is gas released or not.
③Gas pipes knot tied are forbidden.
④Check gas pipes, pipes connections to see if loosed or gas released before work.

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Chapter 2 Production Introduction
2.1 Product Outline
This machine is Honeybee brand Portable CNC Cutting Machine. It supports flame cutting only, plasma
cutting only or both flame and plasma cutting. It enjoys compact structure, small size and lightweight. It
does not take fixed machine room and can be moved easily by two persons. Honeybee can be used both
indoors and outdoors.
Honeybee Portable CNC Cutting Machine is applied in large, medium and small size enterprises, widely
used in Auto, Shipping Building and Engineering Machines industries. It can cut any complex plane
figures on carbon steel plates (flame cutting) and Stainless steel plates or other nonferrous metal (by
plasma cutting). It can reduce secondary process and increase your productivity.
The FastCAM Program Software supports drawing and nest. It is easily learned and operated. It can
transform AutoCAD file into G codes/CNC file. Save the CNC file into U disk and load into the cnc cutting
machines. The cnc cutting machine can read the G codes.
Honeybee Portable Cutting Machine equips USB interface, which easy for program transfer.
2.2 Product Structure
This machine is made of host machine, guide rails, crossbeam and plasma THC, as picture 1.
Pic.1 Honeybee Portable CNC Plasma Cutting Machine HBST2008LCD
2.3 Honeybee Portable CNC Cutting Machine Parameters
The sizes can be customized.
Crossbeam
Guide Rails
Host Machine
Plasma THCPlasma Power Source

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Basic Model HBST2005LCD HBST2008LCD
Input Voltage 220V
Frequency 50Hz
Rated Power 180W
LED screen size 7’’ (Colorful Screen)
Host Machine Size 508mm×344mm×305mm(L*W*H) 600mm×449mm×350mm(L*W*H)
X axis effective cutting
size 1200mm 1600mm
Y axis effective cutting
size 2000/3500/5500mm 3400/5400mm
Guide Rail Width 196mm 345mm
Cutting Speed 0~3000mm/min
Plasma Cutting
Thickness 1~20mm（Depends on plasma power source capacity）
Net Weight 70.5Kg（1200x2000mm）95.5Kg（1600x3400mm）
Emergency Button No Have
Motor Enable Button No Have
Plasma Power Source Hypertherm Powermax series, Thermadyne Cutmaster series
Remark:
The standard THC for plasma cutting is arc voltage auto torch height control and motorized torch lifter.
2.4 Usage of this Manual
This Manual is only applied for the warning, structure parameters, usage of Honeybee Portable CNC
Flame or Plasma Cutting Machine. Please choose right operation methods according to the machine
configure.
As for the plasma power source, please refer to the Operator Manual of Plasma Power Source.
As for the program software, please refer to FastCAM Manual.
Notice:
1) If there is something unclear, please call the Dealer or us Manufacturer Service Center..
2) If the machine is malfunction, don’t deal it yourself, p lease call the Dealer or us Manufacturer Service
Center.
3)The cutting parameter in the annex is only for reference.

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Chapter 3 Installation
3.1 Open the packages and Check
After receive the cargo, please open and check the items. If the cargo is not right, please contact
Honeybee Sales or Dealer.
3.2 Portable CNC Cutting Machine Installation
(The example is HBST2008LCD and Thermadyne Cutmaster A120 plasma power
source).)
3.2.1 Longitudinal Rails Assembly (Y Axis)
Take the frame constituted by the two longitudinal rails
Take the two transversal beams
Slide the captive nuts to the place where one transversal beam will be install on the frame (≈400mm from
the edge of the frame) See picture 3.
Put one transversal beam in place, insert 4 M8 screws through the beam into the captive nuts and torque
them. See picture 4.
Picture 2:Transversal beam screw Picture 3: Longitudinal Rails Frame Assembled
3.2.2 Central Unit Installation
—Hold the Central Unit Front Panel and make the guiding blocks fit well with the two rails.
—Put the guiding blocks on the rails carefully.
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M8 Captive nut
railsBaseframeM8

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Picture 4 Central Unit Installation
—Put the Central Unit on the rails softly.
Picture 5: Put the Central Unit on the rails and Uplift it softly
—Uplift the Central Unit softly, don’t make it crash on the edge of rails.
—Slowly move the Central Unit forward until the it totally install on the rails.

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Picture 6: Sliding of the Central Unit on the Rails
3.2.3 Cross Beam Assembly Installation (X Axis)
—Handle with care the Cross Beam assembly to avoid any damage to the flexible gas pipes, the
electromagnetic valve and the torch assembly.
—Hold the Cross Beam parallel to the floor and perpendicular to the Anti-heat Wall. Notice the rack
direction must match with the notch of the Central Unit, as picture 8.
—Insert the Cross Beam into the Central Unit, exercise a small force on it, make the rack of Cross Beam
match well with the gear of the Central Unit.
Picture 7

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3.2.4 Fix plasma torch(with torch cable) on the torch holder, as picture 8.
Pic.8 Motorized Torch Lifter and THC Install
3.2.5 Plasma Power Source connection refers to Plasma Power Source Operator
Manual.

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Pic 9 Thermadyne Cutmaster A120 Plasma Power Source
Pic.10 Thermadyne Cutmaster A120 Consumables
3.2.6 Cables Connection
Pic. 11 Portable Flame/Plasma Cutting Machine Cables Connection
PowersupplyPowersupplysocket
Plasmapowersourceandcentral
unitcommunicatecable6p
Initialposition
cable2p
Magneticvalve,motorized
torchliftercable4p

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Pic.12 Plasma power source and central unit Picture 13 Initial position cable
Communicate cable
Shield cap Cutting table (material) Cross beam end Plasma power end
Picture 14 cable connect
2PtoIHSCuttingtableend
1Shieldcap
2Cuttingtable(material)
4PtoTorchCrossbeamend4Psocket
11Motor
22Motor
33Magneticvalve
44Magneticvalve
6PtoPlasmaPlasmapowerend14Psocket
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24START‐
36ARC+
45ARC‐
Tocentralunit6p
Toplasmapowersource Tocentralunit2p
Toplasma
torch
Toworktable
（Black）

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Unit now, a Portable Plasma Cutting Machine Installation is finished, as picture 15.
Notice: The plasma power source Operator Manual must be read before connection and operate plasma
power source.
Pic.15 Portable CNC Plasma Cutting Machine Overall Picture

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Chapter 4 Control Panel and Function
4.1 Control Panel
Notice: This picture shows HBST2008LCD control panel, it has Emergency Stop, Free, Run keys.
HBST2005LCD has not.
Picture 16 Central Unit Control Panel
English Interface
Inputkey
LED
FunctionkeyStar
Stop
Software
update
USBsocket
E‐Stop
Free
Run

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E-STOP (Emergency stop): When the machine has emergent malfunction, press this button to cut off the
motor power supply. Revolve the button to power on.
FREE (Motor enable/able): Use for manually pulling the central unit or cross beam. When pull the central
unit or cross beam, turn it off , when normally cut, turn it on.
RUN (Running indication): When the machine is under normal cutting, the running indication light is on,
otherwise it is off.
4.2 CNC System Function
zThis Portable CNC system is applicable to Portable flame/Plasma cutting.
zHigh reliability as well as good resistance to plasma disturbance, lightning and surge.
zPractical torch/plasma cutting craftwork, under plasma cutting, be able to perform corner speed
control and height control automatically;
zKerf compensation, reasonability check and report for user's option;
zBreakpoint restoration, automatic power-back recovery and automatic breakpoint memory,
zRandom section and piercing point selection,
zOptional piercing position feature in mode of RETURN, SECTION(section selection) and
RESBREK(breakpoint restoration), very convenient for user control,
zSpecial short line machining feature based on smooth travel, extensively applicable to metal
blanking as well as advertisement and ironwork fabrication, etc.
zShape library of 24-type patterns, extensible and customizable, including the common machining
parts,
zCompatible with many program software;
zOperation menu both in Chinese and English, dynamic graphic display, 8-times zoom, free point
automatic tracking, USB disk program and timely software upgrade.
zSystem operation displayed in step by step.
4.3 CNC System Technical Specification
Processor: Industrial ARM7 CPU
Display: 7" Color LCD
Input/output: 13 channels of optical isolation input and 8 channels of optical isolation output
Interlocked axles: 2 axles;
Pulse equivalency: variable, electronic gear numerator and optional denominator in the range from 1 to
65535.
Memory space: 32M-64M oversized memory capacity for user program and no restriction to machining
program
Operation temperature: 0 to +40℃; storage temperature: -40 to +60℃
4.4 Function Key
As the picture below, the design of hierarchy-based functional windows is adopted for system operating
display. If a function is invoked in the main menu window, the corresponding sub-window menu will pop
up. Press [F1] to [ F7] to select the corresponding function according to window prompt. Press ［ESC ］

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to abandon the selection and return to the upper level of menu.
[[F1] AUTO : Programmed control of automatic machining;
[F2] MAN :To manually control the position of cutting torch;
[F3] EDIT: To edit/modify/input/output the machining program;
[F4] SETUP : To set system parameters;
[F5] DIAGNOSE : To check the input/output information of cutting machine;
[F6] LIBMINIT : To set normal shapes and nest material.
4.5 Order Keys
Picture 17 Order Keys
Program
inputkey
Torch
controlkeys
Torchcontrol
keysunder
manualmode
Start&Stop
key

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Order Keys Description
Order Keys Usage
Green key，start running.
Red key，stop /pause running.
Move torch right（+X）
Move torch left（－X）
Move torch forward（+Y）
Move torch backward（－Y）
Regulate torch running speed(cutting speed), the torch running speed will
increase according to ratio as every press.
Regulate torch running speed(cutting speed), the torch running speed will
decrease according to ratio as every press.
Turn on/off cutting oxygen under manual mode,
The following five function keys are invalid.
For insert function under Edit.
Rise display brightness.
For delete under Edit.
Reduce display brightness.
Page up under program.
If equip motorized torch lifter, control torch rising.
Page down under program.
If equip motorized torch lifter, control torch down.

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Enter.
Space.
Input G code under program.
Input X axis coordinate under program.
Input Y axis coordinate under program.
Change running speed under program.
Input numbers.
Software upgrade.
Pic. 18

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Chapter 5 Operation
Main steps for operating the Portable CNC Cutting Machine
5.1 Main Menu
After turn on the machine, the LCD screen will display as picture below: (Picture 25)
UseAutoCADtodrawandloadtheDWG/DXF
filesintoFastCAM,useFastCAMtonestand
transferthefilesintoTXTfiles
UseUSBkeytoloadtheTXTfileinto
theCNCCuttingMachine
Loadthefile,previewit,setthe
cuttingspeed,preheattime,kerfand
suitablenozzles
Turnonpreheatvalvemanuallyand
ignite
Turnonthecuttingoxygenmagnetic
valve,regulatecuttingflameline,turn
itof
f
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Movethetorchtotheinitialcutting
placeonthesteelplate
Loadthedrawingtothecutting
interface,pressgreenStartbutton
andbe
g
incuttin
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