What an amazing feeling when you power it up and the V1 Engineering startup screen comes up! Thank you to everyone that gave me such good advice during the build process and thank you to Ryan for coming up with this concept and then making it accessible to anyone that wants to build it!
Unfortunately, it appears that I may have got one of the SKR Pro 1.2 boards that ignores the end stops. If I have to I will make up some of those 1.5 ohm resistor pigtails. When I manually trip each end stop it does put out the corresponding light on the board wear the stepper motors plug in. I have only tested this from the TFT screen under the motion option. I haven’t connected my laptop to it with Repetier Host yet, but it’ll likely do the same thing, yes?
Also, a side note, I used the precompiled software that V1 provides on their site.
I like your controller mount setup! No cable chains to get in the way, though with the catwalk grating, it looks like you plan to have a plasma cutter on there… nice build.
Here’s another pic of it. Sorry my shop area is a mess and it’s hard to make out the machine very well. I used an arbor type setup for my wire management and as place to mount my controller. I used light gauge elastic cording to hold up the the wires.
My intent is to attach my waste board from underneath the aluminum grating.
If you did a good job with your electrical connections like it appears you have, then the operation of it should be easy. The drawing part I’m still trying to figure out and that is likely where most of your time will be spent: getting what you want out of your head and into gcode. You are off to a good start, for sure.
Does anyone know if controlling the unit with the LCD onboard movement function take into account the dual end stops?
I know sometimes at work we wire our Hand-Off-Auto switches to run a motor even when a alarm relay is keeping it held out in “auto”. Is this a similar situation?
I got the grating from a decommissioned water treatment plant that we’re in the process of tearing down. They were formerly catwalk treads.
One nice thing about them is it gives you a lot of options for hold downs for work pieces. I have 2 different styles I 3d printed. If you go the grating route, I’ll gladly share the STL’s with you. (You may have to tweak them if it’s a different grating type.)
