Hey Tim, thanks for your continued interest. I got to work on my electronics, but made an error in soldering one of my cables. Some solder got between two pins on one of my DB9 connections and blew out my G540 controller. I sent it back to Geckodrives and they told me that repairs were free, which is awesome, but I'm waiting for the controller to come back.
One of my problems with my first cnc project was a direction error that would happen when I'd run the axis in mach3. I'd jog any axis and sometimes it would go the correct direction and sometimes it would not. Before the change in cabling that blew out my G540, I got to test each axis and had the same problem. So, I'm on hold until my G540 comes back, and I'm on vacation next week. I'm hoping to get back to this August 2. I'm potentially revising my goals based on the discussion here about not enough torque for the spindle. Another of my money making projects are segmented routed bowls. I'd still be happy if I could automate X,Y,Z to rout the inside of these bowls, which takes me about an hour. On Jul 21, 1:32 pm, "Tim Krause" <artmarb...@comcast.net> wrote: > Where are you at with this project? > > -Tim > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chainlink" <dustinyo...@hotmail.com> > To: "Legacy Ornamental Mills" <legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 4:37 PM > Subject: Re: Build log of sorts for a 1200 upgrade to CNC > > > Thanks all for all the advice on the gears and stepper sizes and > > practical advice in general. I'm worried about stalling too, which is > > why I tried to be as minimal as possible with the physical changes to > > the Legacy in case it does not work out. > > > At any rate, hopefully I'll be able to get everything running this > > week so we can see what happens. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group.> To post to this group, send email to > > legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com.> To unsubscribe from this group, > send email to > > legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.> For more options, > visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en. > > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en.
