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lots of progress has been had... havent posted any of it till now, but I was able to make some plastic chips after setting everything up in the old ultrasound cart I bought and also got the limit...

Ballscrews arrived
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looks like the Z ballscrew fell out of one end and was banging around in the package a bit...

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Bearings came in from MOCHU on ebay...
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I thought the "V" was supposed to line the bearings faces up? I guess not...
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Still waiting on ballscrews and FK/FS supports.

Hey thanks for reading!

I'd say it's not a mistake, but a known shortcoming. I certainly realize this $1700 import mill won't be remarkable. This project was started because I'm tired of waiting...

Thanks for the input! Where you source your motors from?

the 24's I have are only rated up to 50v and I'm told you risk cooking em running them much higher.

the 34 I bought is rated up to...

I wanted to go back and add into my first post, but discovered there's an expiry of edit buttons here on cnczone- the edit I wanted to put in was a thank you to all the folks who shared their PM-25...

On to the adaptor plate for spreading out the PM's weight and allowing for boltification...
I started out with just square tube from lowes but later became worried and added keystock to the mix...

Hey folks,

I'll try to let the pics do most of the story telling...

Decided to skip the PM stand after getting the idea of using the HF side tool cab from the physics anonymous boys (before...

What do you suppose the AP denotes?

the manual only specs a 306AB...

hmmm

-pat

edit: nevermind... it means it has the "PINS" option mentioned in the manual

http://www.datasheetcatalog.org/datasheet/MitsubishiElectricCorporation/mXutxyr.pdf

page 1 bottom right. that'd be your schematic with internal diodes indicated.
good stuff. :cheers:

-pat

yea dont know what happened to the pics in the first post...

I'd love to set up rigid tapping, but that's a little down the line, I'd plan on getting an Auto tool changer goin before that.
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got her up and running :

http://www.customfighters.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=212&pictureid=4321

whoops.... X axis is BACKWARDS...
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Does anyone have any information on the following servo drives?

Copley 306AP

and

Moog 152F427A

I got them off ebay for what I hope is a good deal, but I can't find any data sheets, I...

sounds expensive.

would you mind linking me to a source?

Thanks again.

-pat

Al, I wanted to ask you what you would do in the following situation:

The drives seem to drift, meaning that when I ground out the analog control signal input, they still move- Adjusting the...

http://realterm.sourceforge.net/

this one's nice in my opinion, gives a lot more options up front.
-pat

thanks Al!

any chance I could get a hold of that manual? (assuming its in pdf form).

the "mystery wire" on the Z and Y cards is one wire going to the 8th pin on the header that receives the...

They are out of my Anilam/Lagun 2cnc mill.
if anyone has specific info on these that'd be great!

I have some documents I got from jerry but there is one wire that is a mystery to me...

thanks...

Got me mesa products in!

http://www.customfighters.com/forums/imagehosting/21764aed8e88c4593.jpg

http://www.customfighters.com/forums/imagehosting/21764aed8e88c68b9.jpg

I was kinda...

hmmm no luck finding the inittab...

I did the telinit 3 though and am rebooting now...

it seems to freezeup at "running local bootup scripts"

edit:
ok, i seem to have gotten myself into...

Hey-

Its been quite some time since I spent hours at the command line in linux and wanted to inquire about how to boot directlly into the command line, or better yet how to boot directly into...

so here's my GENERAL plan so far...


http://www.customfighters.com/forums/imagehosting/21764ae6e862c9d17.gif


what am I missing?

-pat

forgive me for the cell phone pics... its usually all i got on me

I figured it might be a good idea to post up my machine and plans for it- it seems a lot of you guys did this kinda project years...

OK, I've finally managed to finger through the HAL manual, and there's certainly lots of good stuff in there, but I unfortunately didn't really find what I was initially looking for...

let me...

Jon- you're help is very much appreciated!

I'm currently in the process of acquiring some national instruments daq hardware to figure out what kinda IO and protocols I'll be dealing with, so with...

wow, that's impressive! :banana:

so, I'm about to go diving into the HAL manual and figured I'd ask if you have manuals or datasheets for each product? maybe to read alongside the HAL business?...

First of, thanks for the replies, they are much appreciated!



would you mind linking me to this particular interface card/device? This is the info I was looking for! I ultimatley need to know...

Hello-

as the title states, I'm in need of some help understanding the capabilities of emc2. I used emc2 to control a stepper based harbor freight mill that I put together which used the parallel...

Hello,

The post's title kind of explains it, I'm getting SERVO DSCNT error on my anilam controller (crusader series m) when I go to power the servos.

Limit switches are all confirmed functional...

Hey guys- I very much appreciate the willingness to help- and yes, the reference to the manual is appreciated too!

It turns out that the driver for my PCI card was not fully installed :tired:.....