I have a SS PCS saw since they introduced it and love it. The fit and finish is fantastic. Since I preordered that saw, I got one of their first manuals and it had a few minor errors in it. I wrote up the edits and mailed them to tech support and got a call-back within hours to thank me for it. None of the errors would have befuddled anybody except maybe someone who shouldn't run a saw [blink] Further calls with tech support showed a very active with their customers; everything got answered quickly and any suggestions I sent them started a thread to develop the idea. They seem interested in improving and already great product. I get frustrated seeing other companies sit on their laurels not changing anything because it will cost a dime of tooling changes.
Regardless the safety mechanism, I like everything about it. The mobility kit that's made for it integrates into the cabinet. Press on the pedal and the thing pops up for easy movement (including the full fence... in my case a router table extension with loaded shelves); press the release and it sits on the cabinet base, not on locked wheels that will shimmy anyway.
The DC is fantastic for a table saw; only time I get dust is when skimming the blade along the edge of a board since the blade isn't captured in a kerf... in that case, you get a spray to the left that a well-positioned hose can capture.
A couple months ago, I did a bunch of cuts without the DC on since it was beyond full. If you've seen my mods, the back DC port of the saw is brought around to the front, so there's about 6' of pipe to bring it to the front. The DC hose wasn't attached. After a bunch of cuts, there was a spray of dust out the front port. It had enough push to get the dust all the way around the saw and out the front. I can easily see why some people can do it with just a shop vac (although this
Steel City mini dust collector is awesome for connecting directly to a tool).
I got the 36" fence because I can't see ever needing the 52". People here on FOG would use a tracksaw to break down big sheet goods before lugging it up on a table saw so 36" should do you well.
The one thing I can say isn't stellar is the right extension wing. There's a wide cast iron right wing, but beyond that is a box with a plastic laminate on it. I took that out and put a router table in it with integral dust box and connected the whole thing to a single power feed so there's fewer wires to trip over. The extension that's normally there works just fine, though, and if you plan on replacing it with a router table, you'll probably appreciate that you didn't pay for a cast iron extension to be placed in a storage pile.
Above all that, I like the idea that the blade has a safety because I pay for this stuff typing; a friend I met at a previous employer fortunately made his fortune elsewhere before an unfortunate woodworking accident took off the tip of a finger. From what he said, he would find it difficult to have the same productivity doing code as he did before. Since I'm a code monkey, it's kinda important to me.
