On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
On Saturday, February 07, 2015 08:14:50 AM Mark Wendt wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
greetings guys;
I have now installed just about the whole thing with an apache2 in
Thanks John. Never have seen the Leadshine drivers. I'll take a look.
On 2/8/2015 12:16 PM, John Alexander Stewart wrote:
Dean;
Personally - my location makes my situation different than yours.
I have 3 CNC builds - two with Gecko 540s, one with Leadshine stepper
drivers ordered from
Hi Jon:
Thanks for the input. I guess I had two things that I wondered about
when I was considering this. What, if anything special, am I getting in
the big name industrial drive from Parker that I can't get from a
lower priced Gecko or Leadshine? And is it worth the money. And
second, are
On 2/8/2015 11:40 AM, Dean Posekany wrote:
A little background :
About six years ago, as I was just starting to design my shop-built
gantry machine, I came across a SUPER deal on Ebay for six sets of drive
components. Each set included a line filter, Parker OEM300 75V, 7.5A
power supply,
On Sunday, February 08, 2015 11:40:19 AM Dean Posekany wrote:
A little background :
About six years ago, as I was just starting to design my shop-built
gantry machine, I came across a SUPER deal on Ebay for six sets of drive
components. Each set included a line filter, Parker OEM300 75V,
A little background :
About six years ago, as I was just starting to design my shop-built
gantry machine, I came across a SUPER deal on Ebay for six sets of drive
components. Each set included a line filter, Parker OEM300 75V, 7.5A
power supply, Parker OEM750 stepper driver and a stepper
My old Starturn lathe came with a smaller drive that failed, the
repair was about £4 for a chip, it can be very cheap to do your own
drive repair.
Dave
On 08/02/2015, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote:
On 02/08/2015 10:40 AM, Dean Posekany wrote:
Here's my question for the worldly
Dave:
That crossed my mind and I've done some SMD board repair before. I've
spent the past two days searching for repair info on these drives and
have come up empty. I've got no clue as to where to start on these as
far as repair goes.
On 2/8/2015 12:39 PM, Dave Caroline wrote:
My old
Dean;
Personally - my location makes my situation different than yours.
I have 3 CNC builds - two with Gecko 540s, one with Leadshine stepper
drivers ordered from China.
Ok - of the Gecko G540 machines; one is Mesa 5i25 driven, the other is
software stepping. The 5i25/G540 really works VERY
On 02/08/2015 10:40 AM, Dean Posekany wrote:
Here's my question for the worldly experience of the group. I'm retired
and this is a serious hobby machine and I don't have a great deal of
money that I can throw that this. So when the inevitable failure of the
next stepper driver occurs, what
On Sunday, February 08, 2015 08:19:10 AM Mark Wendt wrote:
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
On Saturday, February 07, 2015 08:14:50 AM Mark Wendt wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com
wrote:
greetings guys;
I
On 2/8/2015 2:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Yes, I am a Certified Electronics Technician. And I like to teach. And
being both 80 yo, and long retired myself, I do consider the costs in
the long view if I can.
Thanks Gene. I'm a loong way from an electronics technician. So, if
you're
On 02/08/2015 01:02 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
When you want 5 axis verification your choices are severely limited and
very expensive.
Oops. I forgot about your axes super powers.
It seems to be on OpenSCAM's list:
Future Plans
Many features are planed for the future of OpenSCAM. Much of
On 2/8/2015 2:16 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote:
On 02/08/2015 10:11 AM, Dave Cole wrote:
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I'm wondering why they are failing on you?
Do you have the drives heat sinked?The back of the drives are smooth
aluminum and are designed to be
heatsinked to a backplane or the heatsink that
On 02/08/2015 01:19 PM, Dean Posekany wrote:
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Stupid question time: How would one do this? Currently I have a
switched feed that feeds --line filters---power supplies---drivers.
Would I need to put a switch between each PS and driver?
On my mill, I think I should have linked the
On 02/08/2015 11:16 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote:
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technology and components to run the PWM at higher frequency. I got a
Leadshine'ish (MA860H from eBay) drive to replace one of my blown out
drives and the current limit is silent, meaning the frequency is
probably above 10kHz. I suppose
On 02/08/2015 11:40 AM, Dean Posekany wrote:
Hi Jon:
Thanks for the input. I guess I had two things that I wondered about
when I was considering this. What, if anything special, am I getting in
the big name industrial drive from Parker that I can't get from a
lower priced Gecko or
Guys,
I just watched a video on C++. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rub-JsjMhWY
Reading the comments I saw a name 'Moronicsmurf' refer to LinuxCNC.
Is this someone we know? If we don't, we should get to know him.
Looks as if he understands LinuxCNC very well.
I found this because I am trying to
On 8 February 2015 at 20:41, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote:
I found this because I am trying to find the best way to build a gcode
verification application.
I want to translate the gcode to OpenSCAD instructions so I can remove the
material described by the gcode motion from a
He'll Andy there have been software/hardware packages control motion for a
few decades. Reinventing the wheel seems to be the usual MO around here. :)
On Feb 8, 2015 3:00 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 February 2015 at 20:41, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com
wrote:
I
On 02/08/2015 10:11 AM, Dave Cole wrote:
... snip
I'm wondering why they are failing on you?
Do you have the drives heat sinked?The back of the drives are smooth
aluminum and are designed to be
heatsinked to a backplane or the heatsink that Parker sold (use heat
sink compound).
If you
On 02/08/2015 12:12 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
Guys,
I just watched a video on C++. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rub-JsjMhWY
Reading the comments I saw a name 'Moronicsmurf' refer to LinuxCNC.
Is this someone we know? If we don't, we should get to know him.
Looks as if he understands
When you want 5 axis verification your choices are severely limited and
very expensive.
On Feb 8, 2015 3:00 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 February 2015 at 20:41, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com
wrote:
I found this because I am trying to find the best way to build a
On 2/8/2015 1:11 PM, Dave Cole wrote:
I'm wondering why they are failing on you?
Do you have the drives heat sinked?The back of the drives are smooth
aluminum and are designed to be
heatsinked to a backplane or the heatsink that Parker sold (use heat
sink compound).
Hi Dave:
Yea, I
On 2/8/2015 12:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
If you have an oscilloscope, bad/old caps will be obvious because of the 20
volt or more noise spikes from the motor drivers at the supply outputs.
I'd open them up and have a look at the capacitors for bulging and leaking.
1997 is in the capacitor
Hi Dean,
I've been using imported stepper motors and drivers (the type you find
cheap on eBay) and have been very happy with them. They have generally
much more robust designs than the older high dollar industrial controls,
and they're much smarter. The new stepper motor controllers have
On 15-02-05 07:31 AM, bhri...@bresnan.net wrote:
Hi Lawrence:
Am wanting to build ur servo project but have had no luck compiling
it. is any of the files on ur site of that project already complied
so that i could just load onto the pic. with mp pickit 2?Thanks Bill
WA0WWN
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