The attachment point on the xTool for the touch plate was a barrel connector, so I soldered a barrel connector onto the touch plate, and it works great. I’d like to keep using the same connector, but i’m not finding an already made way to mount a female barrel connector onto the LR3. Most of the people i’m looking at for builds have permanently attached touch plates, i’d like to attach mine, do probing to set my origin, and then detach the probe and stow it. Using a barrel connector is a bonus, but i’m also willing to change to another connector type if needed.
Anyone seen anything like this? Tried searching the forums, didn’t find anything. Not sure how to reword my query to find anything similar to it, if it exists.
I can model it myself in fusion, but i’m not good at it. Finding a premade solution is far more time effective.
I didn’t even think about adding it to the end of the drag chain, I was trying to physically mount it on the LR3 head.
I tried to fit it into the round hole that is right above where the X belt contacts the X motor, but I couldn’t get it to fit flush. May end up relocating this cable as you’ve suggested.
I just picked up some mono audio connectors and I’m going to give that a try. The idea would be to mount the jacks in the controller board case, and plug/unplug the probe as needed. I’m fairly certain it will do fine with the touch plate, but I also wanted to try to connect up a 24v coolant solenoid using the same method to make it easy to switch from wood to aluminum. However I’m less confident that these plugs can handle a sustained 24v… Only one way to find out!
