All buttoned up. Finished up wiring, printing, time for some testing.
For the brains / powerhouse I repurposed an old UPS that had some fried electronics so that got gutted, it housed my RAMBO board a spare 180mm PC fan to keep things breezy, an old 700W ATX power supply that’s feeding the RAMBO and the fan, maybe if I get ambitious some day I’ll add in some color changing LED’s and flashing RAM. I have 6 additional outlets I can feed the DeWalt and shop vac off the back. I chopped the power cable and rewired it so main power feeds into the E-Stop then out to the UPS. Redesigned a cover that I can feed in the USB, LCD and power to the ATX. Drilled some holes and wired in some aviator connectors thanks to @gpagnozzi thread that put some ideas in my head, That all sits under the table. At some point I may box in the top to keep the sawdust down, for now its a shopvac hose and a watchful eye.
Thanks. Learned the hard way that I needed to reverse my wires on the female side of those connections rather than just looking at my diagram and soldering the all up the same way.
More cutting. Also a good example of the advantage of plastic hold down clamps.
Probably still not anywhere near pushing the limits but I’m happy its cutting so well.
25mm/s feed rate, 2mm DOC,
Very nice! Just for your reference, I’ve been running my new Primo at 1000mm/min at 6mm DOC without any issues. I’ve even shaved off the end of one of my wooden hold downs too.
Thanks. They are aviation connectors. @gpagnozzi mentioned the in one of his posts. Not sure which ones he used but I got these on amazon. They’re a 6 pin, 12 mm - 6 pin because I run the steppers and Endstops on one cable. The 12 mm is a little on the small side so can be a chore to solder. Doing it over I’d be inclined to go a little bigger.
Cut this out on some old barn wood laying around which is most likely pine, I planed down, going for sort of the rustic look. I think it wasn’t quite flat… some of the corners on a few letters got blown out, which I think is from the Z depth being different height when it goes to touch those up. I could be wrong on that.
If the feedrate is actually set directly in my tool settings in ESTLCAM and not somewhere else, this is 1000mm/sec with 3mm/DOC.
I plan on doing the same, running the setppers and endstops in 1 cable and using the aviation connectors. Quick question. Did you use the connectors just at the box? What connectors did you use for the wire to wire connections?
At the box I used the wire and attached some pin female connectors to attach directly to my Rambo, and terminated those on top of the box with the aviation connectors. Then I made up 5 long runs with aviation connector on one end, and a male pinout connector on the other end to attach to the stock stepper cables and limit switches. Since my box sits under the table I needed longer runs just so the router could hit all extremes with some slack.
Like I told someone above, I used the 12 mm plugs and they were a pain to solder, so I’d suggest maybe going up a size.
Would you mind sharing where you got those motor clamps cable chains and the z-rail mounts? I’ve been looking for a good solution and the ones with the V1 logo on them do not fit my motors.
On the z_axis I have one called Inside Tube Bracket that I can’t find the thingiverse link for right now, but have the stl. I’m not super thrilled with that one and will probably replace it at some point. The way its mounted its pushing the drag chain over too far to easily rest on the aluminum without some supervision.
If I missed one or you’re asking about something else let me know and I’ll try and track it down.
