Hey there Aram, I built my own router. I work as an industrial designer & build heavy equipment for steel mills and the like. Designing and building my own machine was a natural fit. My router is 20 x 10 [ft] and has ~30" of Z travel [which will soon be more like 50"]
I've not yet built the B/C axis head as that is still in the design stage. I've been operating the machine for two years as a standard 3 axis router. My current spindle is an Ekstrom 2.2kw unit. When I move to the 5 axis setup I'll be swapping that out for a 3.7 or 5.5kw ATC spindle. I'd originally planned to build my own spindle, however the nesc gearing to make the B/C head work was ~$6000usd so.. decided to go to a cartridge type spindle instead. I have my own casting setup and plan to rough cast the 5 axis head and get it machined locally [friend of mine does all my precision machining] Currently I'm running MCG33004 servo motors but this is going to be upgraded to Fanuc Yellow Cap's [850oz-in cont. torque] which will give me a good bit more speed [accel]. There are plans to also upgrade from my current rack/pinion drive system to a C3 ballscrew setup at the same time. [Ya.. 20ft long ballscrews aren't cheap :) ] Best J. Johnson > Hi > I am interesting in your router. Did you build that router by > yourself or > retrofiring existing one. What king head A and B axis do you use. > can you send me link from internet that describe your A and B axis? > How big spindle motor do you use? > > Thanks > aram > > > > I'm a new user when it comes to Linux and am interested in > moving from > > Mach3. However not being a programer of any depth, I'm a little > leary of > > taking a working machine and trying to convert it to linux and > possibly> ending up w/ a machine that isn't working. My main > reason for moving to > > Linux is to install a 5 axis [Spindle mounted to a B/C axis] > system on my > > router. Because of my encoder count numbers, my machine would be > best> served by some form of an independant Motion board [Mesa or > some other]. > > > > To start w/, does anyone have some good links to help a new user > better> understand the Linux language [writing a HAL file & > compiling etc] that a > > person could read to increase knowledge etc. I'd be interested > in buying > > books even, but rather than just pointing and shooting, thought > I'd as > > which would be recommended first. > > > > Btw does DSCMP/IP now have an interface to enable connection to > EMC2? Is > > there a general concensis as to which of the add-on motion > control modules > > is the best option for EMC while using step & Dir for servo > control? I'm > > currently using Granite Devices servo cards and would prefer to > stay w/ > > them if possible. > > > > Thanks in advance... > > > > J. Johnson > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > > 30-Day > > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - > and focus > > on > > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports > 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - > and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new > with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
