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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