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You can’t tell, but, I’ve been puttering around with the control panel for a couple of weekends.
I still need a few standoffs to mount the open circuit cards to the backplane, but everything else is bolted down.
The motor control wiring from the drivers out to the machine takes a shielded four wire cable that costs less for 500 feet than for 100 feet. Weird how that works. I can get 500 feet for $55 but I only need 100 feet, which would cost me $69.
I have no idea what I’ll do with the other 400 feet.
I’ve offered my truck for sale – partially to pay a bunch of taxes, but also to buy Aspire 4.5 software and my ATC tool changing spindle. (Not to mention the z-axis bearings and ball screw and the x-axis rack and pinion)
If all goes well, I can use the machine to produce enough to re-buy a newer truck later.
That’s it for now.
Once I get something completed where I can push a button and something moves, that will be super cool.
Thanks for following along.
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Birth of a 4-axis CNC machine #9: Control panel layout and wiring
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