SX3 Conversion

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Today's goodies include the project boxes, soldering station, and a multimeter.

It's starting to look like there's a NASA project going on around here in the basement.

Matt

Just picked up a 60watt station, so I should be good to go there.

 

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Here is the Soigeneris control box.

A shot of the G540

Inside houses the MeanWell 320W 48V Power Supply with its own fan.

This control box is built like a tank. I am tickled pink with the craftsmanship of the entire controller.

Matt

 

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Here we got the 20 AWG stepper motor cables with the db9's attached.

A db9 connector rigged up for 2 external E-stops, 1 by the Mill, and 1 by the Lathe.

A 3K resistor for the Nema 34.

Some limit switches. Haven't decided yet on them.

Matt

 

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Here is the control center I built today. It's smack dab in between the Mill and the Lathe. The monitor rotates 90deg left and right, so it should work pretty sweet for running both machines.

Matt

 

[vlmarshall]

Nice... much better'n my setup.

 

[1hand]

Nice... much better'n my setup.

Yours works though!! :big:

Do I need to Add anything to the Mach 3 to recognize the G540, or is it just a plug and play?
While I'm waiting for the ball screws, I figure I would hook up the motors on the bench and see if I can make them turn.

Thanks
Matt

 

[Tin Falcon]

Do I need to Add anything to the Mach 3 to recognize the G540, or is it just a plug and play?

You need to download the 540b.xml file from gecko then copy your mill profile and rename it and set it up to call on the 540b file.
Tin

 

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That was the longest 6 hours of my life, but I finally made a stepper move with a stroke of the keyboard........VICTORY. *beer*

 

[Tin Falcon]

Get some sleep
Tin

 

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Big yawn!!!

 

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Being the computer is placed in between the two machines, I got something that's a bit more mobile than the key board for jogging.

Matt

 

[vlmarshall]

Being the computer is placed in between the two machines, I got something that's a bit more mobile than the key board for jogging.

Excellent! I've often wished for something like that... even more now that I've got two machines to run between.

 

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Had a little glitch today. I realized that for the resistors to do any good in the plotting boxes, I need 6 wire leads instead of the 4 lead wire I have. :wall: At lease I caught it now before I smoked something. :shrug: th_wtf1
So I must be learning something so far :

Oh well,

Got a few things soldered and wired up today anyway.

Matt

 

[Tin Falcon]

Had a little glitch today. I realized that for the resistors to do any good in the plotting boxes, I need 6 wire leads instead of the 4 lead wire I have.

ge why does that sound like deja vu
;D
Tin

 

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Some progress:

The Z ballscrew

Of course The Z motor pulley is on backorder

Matt

 

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X and Y

Matt

 

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Even though I don't have the pulley to finsh the Z axis, I had to play a bit!

Cheers Matt

 

[vlmarshall]

Looking good! :bow:
Having fun yet?

 

[ksouers]

Nice playing there, Matt.

Your machine sounds like how I feel :

 

[GailInNM]

Coming together quickly and nicely, Matt.
Have fun playing.
Gail in NM