If it’s happening that frequently, and it’s not due to contact with flesh, then you’re cutting material that you shouldn’t be, or you should be disabling the protection feature.
So if we assume people are cutting appropriate material, your statement simplifies to "If it's happening that frequently you should disable it." And this is your argument in support of mandating it??
> you’re cutting material that you shouldn’t be, or you should be disabling the protection feature.
I will absolutely fight you on this tooth and nail.
1) I don't want anyone to get into the habit of turning off safety features. Ever.
2) If the material can be cut on that saw without the SawStop, it should be able to be cut with the SawStop. If it can't, the fault is with SawStop, not the user.
I'm happy to pay the extra money for the extra safety. However, I will NOT allow you to blame the user for the fact that SawStop has not uncommon failure modes.
Uhh - the manual will tell you not to cut aluminum, very wet wood etc with sawstop feature on.
If you turn off feature you are back to your regular saw - hopefully you use a stick etc in all cases because as you note replacing cartridges is expensive.
One thing I like, it'll put feature back on automatically for the next time machine gets turned on.
The user's definition of "wet wood" and SawStop's often differ quite significantly. Hope you're keeping a moisture meter nearby.
You also have to wait for the blade to come to a complete stop before touching anything or you will fire the system. This can be annoying when you have the motor turned off, retracted the blade, and start setting up your fence only to have the system fire because it wasn't quite stopped.
Was there a sticker on something that was slightly metallic? Oops.
I'm happy to have a SawStop on my saws, and I would even recommend it. However, given how often it false fires, I'm not sure I would mandate it by law.
THIS is actually a great suggestion. Have some lower speed that sawstop does not trigger below. It really does not need to trigger once its (very) slow unless you have a heavier dado blade maybe?
Or have a noncartridge saw brake on the saw, when you come off saw for more than 3 seconds put some light pressure on to slow it more quickly.
I think a fair number of false fires are from this rather than the "wet wood" worry.
Which does not trigger the device unless you are ALSO touching the staple or you cut with staple side down so you ground blade through staple into table.
