Okay .. don't yell at me, insult my family, or threaten to hunt me down
and kill me (or worse). I have a simple question.
Saw Stop obviously works on the principles of capacitance and/or
conductivity. Human flesh (and hot dogs too) are essentially just tubes
of water. Hence, they can be easily detected by a current in the blade.
So ... my question is ... has anyone seen or heard of problems with the
Saw Stop when dealing with "wet wood"? Of course, it isn't a great idea
to be sawing wet wood (really wet wood) anyway.
But many woods do have moisture, particularly the crap we buy these days
at the BORGs.
So I was just wondering just how sensitive these machines are. Having
it be overly sensitive isn't a bad thing when you consider the cost of
losing a finger. But if a little moisture stops the saw - and destroys
a nice $150 blade - it could be quite annoying.
Jack
mywebaccts (at) PLUGcomcast.net wrote:
> Okay .. don't yell at me, insult my family, or threaten to hunt me down
> and kill me (or worse). I have a simple question.
>
> Saw Stop obviously works on the principles of capacitance and/or
> conductivity. Human flesh (and hot dogs too) are essentially just tubes
> of water. Hence, they can be easily detected by a current in the blade.
>
> So ... my question is ... has anyone seen or heard of problems with the
> Saw Stop when dealing with "wet wood"? Of course, it isn't a great idea
> to be sawing wet wood (really wet wood) anyway.
>
> But many woods do have moisture, particularly the crap we buy these days
> at the BORGs.
>
> So I was just wondering just how sensitive these machines are. Having
> it be overly sensitive isn't a bad thing when you consider the cost of
> losing a finger. But if a little moisture stops the saw - and destroys
> a nice $150 blade - it could be quite annoying.
>
> Jack
>
We had one "Fault" while cutting very wet pressure-treated lumber with a
SawStop .. .. .. but it didn't fire the brake .. .. .. the blade just
coasted to a halt, and the LED's flashed a Trouble Code. Basically, it
warned us that we were doing something it didn't like, and it shut down
& warned us to review what we were doing. It gives you the option of
continuing at your own risk or running in a Bypass mode.
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>
> So ... my question is ... has anyone seen or heard of problems with the
> Saw Stop when dealing with "wet wood"? Of course, it isn't a great idea
> to be sawing wet wood (really wet wood) anyway.
>
> But many woods do have moisture, particularly the crap we buy these days
> at the BORGs.
>
> So I was just wondering just how sensitive these machines are. Having it
> be overly sensitive isn't a bad thing when you consider the cost of losing
> a finger. But if a little moisture stops the saw - and destroys a nice
> $150 blade - it could be quite annoying.
There is a bypass for wet wood. How wet is wet? Why not ask the folks at
Saw Stop as they would know better than any of us here. [email protected]