Hey im just wondering how to wire up the spindle its just a small 300 watt air cooled spindle from amazon at some point i found something saying i would need a solid state relay? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Im using the jackpot controller from V1
Welcome to the forum @Taylor_Cowles!
Can you post a link to the spindle you have? There are many different ones with very different ways of wiring.
Do you want it controlled by the jackpot in regards to on and off? Or are you going to manually control it, like the routers that are used?
I would think you need a second 48v power supply. One for the machine and one for the spindle. Then a switch in positive side to control the power to the spindle. If the second option that control is a simple manual switch. If the first option you need a 48v relay rated for the current draw of that spindle. The control like from the jackpot goes to the control pin on the relay. You need to make sure that the control is the same, i.e active high or active low and such.
Just a high level to get it started.
Philip
Thanks, yeah the plan was to have the jackpot controll it.
were would i connect from the jackpot there is a 5v out or the mosfet?
Check the jackpot documents in the V1 build notes. I think I would start with the Laser setup and sort of treat it as a ‘laser’.
https://docs.v1e.com/electronics/jackpot/#updating-installing-firmware
Or from the Fluidcnc site, you could treat it as coolant.
You just need to pick a pin to control in your gcode, tie that to the relay for you spindle and go from there.
You can also get some info here in regards to gcode control of the pins on a card.
https://docs.v1e.com/tools/milling-basics/#starting-gcode
Philip
You can get a 0-10v module from vart tindie store or from the other supplier in the same tindie store. The config is easy and you cant get also some speed control
It gets installed onto the empty module of the jackpot