Hi Gene, Yeah, it is does not always do a great job. It takes a lot of fiddling to get everything correct. I'm still not entirely happy with the results.
As far as I can tell the best selective soldering machines use a solder fountain. As to Mach3, I used it as that's what I'm most familiar with. I did a great job of controlling the 3 axis gantry and I wanted to do is as quickly as possible. Controlling the soldering head module was a bit more problematic. In the end I used the G82 drill cycle (with a dwell) and had the Mach3 macropump cancel the dwell when it received the soldering cycle finished signal from the soldering head controller. The reason for using a drill cycle was that I wanted to use the excellon drill file from the PCB CAD software as the starting point. I used Sheetcam to convert it to Gcode and went from there. Cheers, Peter On 10/05/2015 12:48 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 09 May 2015 05:43:10 Peter Homann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This is the soldering robot I have. It is based on a general purpose >> robot, mainly used for applying glues, pastes etc. Mine has a >> soldering head on it. >> http://homanndesigns.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id= >> 53:selective-soldering-machine-mach3-&catid=35:smt&Itemid=55 >> >> I year or so ago I converted it to run under Mach3 as the original >> interface was such a pain, as it only had a teach mode. The conversion >> is detailed here. >> http://homanndesigns.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id= >> 55:selective-soldering-robot-conversion-to-mach3&catid=34:cnc-projects& >> Itemid=55 >> http://homanndesigns.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id= >> 65:selective-soldering-robot-conversion-to-mach3-and-smooth-stepper-par >> t-2&catid=34:cnc-projects&Itemid=55 >> http://homanndesigns.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id= >> 66:selective-soldering-robot-conversion-to-mach3-and-smooth-stepper-par >> t-3&catid=34:cnc-projects&Itemid=55 >> >> Cheers, >> >> Peter > > Peter, thanks for sharing. I'd imagine that once programmed, that thing > can do the board pictured in perhaps 10 minutes a board. A bit too much > solder according to mill specs, but still Sweet! But why Mach3? > >> On 9/05/2015 1:18 PM, Jon Elson wrote: >>> On 05/08/2015 11:16 AM, Marcus Bowman wrote: >>>> On 8 May 2015, at 16:46, Jon Elson wrote: >>>>> Not bad! I have some ideas for making a soldering robot, >>>>> this could be a good XY base for that. >>>> >>>> I saw this as a result of a link in an earlier email from this >>>> group. a couple of days ago. >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9pd9sY0Tjg >>>> >>>> You are right - this is a useful looking keenly priced base. >>> >>> I actually did this on my milling machine, as a test. >>> Results were not perfect, but showed the technology was at >>> least potentially workable. I have since redone the thing >>> to use thicker solder wire, I bet it would work even better, >>> but have not set it up to try again. >>> >>> Jon >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---------- One dashboard for servers and applications across >>> Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with >>> 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give >>> you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction >>> tracing using APM Insight. >>> http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Emc-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> http://www.avast.com >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> -------- One dashboard for servers and applications across >> Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with >> 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you >> Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing >> using APM Insight. >> http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
