#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Copyright 2026 514 LLC d/b/a OpenGlow # Written by Scott Wiederhold # https://community.openglow.org # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT """Characterize a SHORT periodic flow re-check for use DURING a job. Why a separate design from the job-start check: with the laser firing and coolant flowing, tube heat raises BOTH sensors, inflating a plain downstream-rise metric toward a false fault. With the pump stopped that heat never reaches the sensors at all (stagnant loop), so the no-flow signature stays at its idle value. The two signatures therefore converge during a cut. The differential rise (downstream_end - downstream_start) - (upstream_end - upstream_start) cancels that common-mode heating and is the metric this measures. TWO DEAD ENDS, recorded so they are not re-invented: 1. Absolute over-temperature does NOT detect a failed pump. The sensors read the water at their own location; with no circulation the tube's heat stays in the tube and never reaches them. The loop can read perfectly comfortable while the tube cooks. Over-temp monitoring detects a hot CIRCULATING loop - a different failure. 2. "The coolant should warm up while cutting" is NOT a usable indicator either. A low-duty engrave (say 5% duty at 30% power) can put so little heat in that the cooling system absorbs it with no measurable rise, so a flat trend is equally consistent with a light load working correctly and with a dead pump. Ambiguous evidence is worse than none - it invites false confidence. Hence: periodic ACTIVE interrogation with the heater, which creates a known stimulus instead of waiting for one, is the only valid method on this hardware (there is no pump tach or pump current sense anywhere in the machine). Usage: flow_recheck_char.py [heater_pct] [window_s] (default 50 30) Runs both flow and no-flow cases from a comparable loop state and prints the differential separation. Aborts if downstream passes 45 C. Drives the heater and pump directly: run with forgectrl and the controller stopped (the bench page's takeover does that). Runs on the board or from a host (gfbench: GF_HOST). """ import sys import time from gfbench import board, degc DOWN_ABORT_C = 45.0 def sample(): o = board('cat /sys/glowforge/pic/water_temp_1 /sys/glowforge/pic/water_temp_2').split() return degc(int(o[0])), degc(int(o[1])) def settle(seconds=100): board('echo 1 > /sys/glowforge/thermal/water_pump_on; echo 0 > /sys/glowforge/thermal/heater_pwm') time.sleep(seconds) def check(tag, pump_on, pct, window): board('echo %d > /sys/glowforge/thermal/water_pump_on' % (1 if pump_on else 0)) time.sleep(2) d0, u0 = sample() board('echo %d > /sys/glowforge/thermal/heater_pwm' % int(65535 * pct / 100)) t0 = time.time() d, u = d0, u0 while time.time() - t0 < window: time.sleep(5) d, u = sample() print(' %-8s t=%2.0fs down=%5.2f (%+5.2f) up=%5.2f (%+5.2f) diff=%+5.2f' % (tag, time.time() - t0, d, d - d0, u, u - u0, (d - d0) - (u - u0)), flush=True) if d >= DOWN_ABORT_C: print(' abort: downstream at safety limit', flush=True) break board('echo 0 > /sys/glowforge/thermal/heater_pwm; echo 1 > /sys/glowforge/thermal/water_pump_on') return (d - d0) - (u - u0), d - d0 pct = int(sys.argv[1]) if len(sys.argv) > 1 else 50 window = int(sys.argv[2]) if len(sys.argv) > 2 else 30 print('=== periodic re-check characterization: %d%% heater, %d s window' % (pct, window)) settle() print(' flow case:') flow_diff, flow_rise = check('flow', True, pct, window) settle() print(' no-flow case:') noflow_diff, noflow_rise = check('noflow', False, pct, window) settle(60) print() print('differential rise: flow %+.2f no-flow %+.2f separation %.2f C' % (flow_diff, noflow_diff, noflow_diff - flow_diff)) print('plain down rise: flow %+.2f no-flow %+.2f separation %.2f C' % (flow_rise, noflow_rise, noflow_rise - flow_rise)) print('suggested differential threshold: %.2f C' % ((flow_diff + noflow_diff) / 2))