Hi Thanks to Ted and many others on the group I have had most of my questions answered. I finnaly got all my parts and am excited to be wiring my cnc today. I am converting an old (90's era) CNC router to emc. I purchased a break out board to wire to the existing ib106 drivers.
This following photo shows the guts as they are now: http://www.forsalesticker.com/oldGuts.jpg So I am replacing that board in the middle with a breakout board and wiring to the drivers. Now I have a few noob type questions - 1 - What guage of wire should I use to go from the break out board to the drivers? I have some wire from a cat 5 cable but it seems very tiny - should I use something fatter? 2 - The power from my power supply (very top right in the photo) goes to some other board (what the heck is that thing anyway?) And then there is a plastic connector from the what the heck board to the getting replaced board that has a white and black wire. When the power is on I get 11.7 volts DC on those 2 wires. So my break out board is asking for ground and power (+9 to +24 V) Can I assume that black is power and white is ground? Or is white neutral and I need to get ground from something else? Is there a good method to test this using a simple multimeter? Thanks for the help. Andy --- On Mon, 6/27/11, For Sale Sticker <e...@forsalesticker.com> wrote: > From: For Sale Sticker <e...@forsalesticker.com> > Subject: [Emc-users] stepConf configuration | EMC conversion > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Monday, June 27, 2011, 2:41 PM > Hi - > > I got an old CNC router (phoenix) from a school district > auction and am very eager to get it going. > The old interface is using a serial cable and I need figure > out how to connect this to EMC. > The electronics part is where I am a bit rusty - sorry if I > ask obvious questions. > > Here is the low down: > > Drivers: IB106 (see http://www.forsalesticker.com/drivers.jpg) > Steppers: 1.8 deg - Eastern Air > Devices LA34BJK-P500 > > > How do I know what numbers to put on the driver timing > settings on the first screen of stepConf? (see > http://www.forsalesticker.com/StepConf1.png) > How do I determine the following on the axis configuration: > (see http://www.forsalesticker.com/StepConf1.png) > 'Motor steps per revolution' > 'Driver microstepping' > 'leadscrew pitch' (do I just count the number of threads > per inch?) > > > I am guessing that I bypass this board completely (see > http://www.forsalesticker.com/bboard.jpg) > > > Any advice will be much appriciated. > > Thanks > > Andy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is > seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application > performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
