Re: [Emc-users] Keling Stepper drives

2007-12-18 Thread Svenne Larsson
Guys, For all of you that not hang around at cnczone.com, there is now some positive feedback about Keling and EMC at http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?p=373160http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?p=373160#post373160. Here's one of the posts: * Keling KL-4030 + EMC2*

Re: [Emc-users] Keling Stepper drives

2007-12-18 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
Sven, Great news! I received the same kit as that fella did, but as of yet have not had a chance to play around with the hardware. Santa brought this for me, and the shipping box is sitting under the Christmas tree as I type... ;-) Mark At 04:48 AM 12/18/2007, you wrote: Guys, For all of you

Re: [Emc-users] Keling Stepper drives

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
Jeff, Thanks for the info. Keling is selling this package: http://www.kelinginc.net/CNCPackage.html Not sure if that will give you anymore info on the drives or not. Thanks again, Mark At 10:35 AM 11/30/2007, you wrote: I have no experience with this company or its products, but I

Re: [Emc-users] Keling Stepper drives

2007-11-30 Thread W. Jacobs
John and Andrew, The motors I have are NEMA 34. I had to look that up. They are unipolar motors with ratings of 4.5 volt and 1.4 amp. That makes the motor just under 15 watts which is not a lot but I think I can double that if I run them as bipolar motors. It should not be that much harder

Re: [Emc-users] Keling Stepper drives

2007-11-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 30 November 2007, W. Jacobs wrote: Hello All, I am new, real new to the cnc world. I want to convert a small bench top mill into a cnc machine. I have wanted to do this for a long time and about a week or two ago, I found the linuxCNC.org web site. I have not at this time found a

Re: [Emc-users] Keling Stepper drives

2007-11-30 Thread John Kasunich
W. Jacobs wrote: Hello All, I am new, real new to the cnc world. I want to convert a small bench top mill into a cnc machine. I have wanted to do this for a long time and about a week or two ago, I found the linuxCNC.org web site. I have not at this time found a computer I want to use

Re: [Emc-users] Keling Stepper drives

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
Thanks Ray. I've sent him a few emails, but I'm not entirely sure I'm asking him the right questions... ;-) Mark At 11:30 AM 11/30/2007, you wrote: The Keling guy was at the cnc-workshop a couple years ago and helped me translate some info on China motors. I'd say give him a call. Rayh

Re: [Emc-users] Keling Stepper drives

2007-11-30 Thread Ray Henry
The Keling guy was at the cnc-workshop a couple years ago and helped me translate some info on China motors. I'd say give him a call. Rayh On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:24 -0500, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: Jeff, Thanks for the info. Keling is selling this package:

Re: [Emc-users] Keling Stepper drives

2007-11-30 Thread seth wiley
mark, funny, i just posted similar questions on cnczone's forum (since i'm totally new to the diy cnc game). i've gotten positive responses from a number of people running various keling setups with emc2, and i'll be setting one up soon enough myself. here's the link to the thread:

Re: [Emc-users] Keling Stepper drives

2007-11-30 Thread Jeff Epler
I have no experience with this company or its products, but I was able to find a very short (one-page) datasheet on their website. It appears that the KL-4030 takes step and direction inputs through optoisolators. emc has no problem producing step and direction waveforms--probably this is the

[Emc-users] Keling Stepper drives

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
Wondered if anyone has or is using the Keling KL-4030 stepper drives with EMC2. Any compatibility problems with EMC2 and the drives? Thanks, Mark - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper