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I am also interested in this mill. I just sold my Rong Fu and have been thinking of selling my Taig cnc and manual Hurco to put towards the purchase of a 1240. Would really like to hear from anyone...

It was actually a local business that recommended the 3hp, I'm assuming because the Hurco has a 3hp motor. If there isn't much price difference between the 3 and 5 I'll see what they say. Rapid...

Talked to a local company and they recommended a VFD at $313 my cost especially since I will be tapping doing a rapid reverse and the mill is variable speed(from what I understand it varies the speed...

Actually the static is only around a $100. The motor is 220 but 3 phase, guess I should have mentioned that. Is there a reasonable priced motor swap by chance that would work? I looked at the Hurco...

I bought an old Hurco SM1 mill with a 3hp 3 phase motor and need to get it running on single phase. Talked to a few people and 1 says a static converter will work fine, another says that won't work...

Exported from Inventor to an stl file and opened into Freemill. It looks good other than it changes the dimensions and won't let me size the part back to the intended dimension. Anyone know what I...

Thanks. I will probably just go with a phase converter then. Do you think one of those PHASE-A-MATIC converters would work good?

What would happen if I forget to turn the phase converter on before the mill? What if I turn the mill off and forget to turn off the phase converter?
And how much time can I leave the mill off...

Picked up a used Hurco SM1for $100. It needs a belt and want to change the motor to single phase. Is there a motor out there that is a direct bolt on or can make an adapter plate for it? Possibly...

80 degrees here and my Gecko540 has been acting up, coincidence? Steps have not staying at what they should be and sometimes doesn't move an axis when selected. If heat sink is needed for this...

I've had this problem since I got the mill up and running but for what I was doing it didn't matter but now I will be moving onto other projects . + and - are reversed in the X axis, Y and Z are...

OK, finally got it. It turned out to be the XML file, I Thought I had to install somehow after I read about it somewhere. I found out I just had to place it in the MACH3 folder. Thanks to everyone...

It only gives the option step pulse of 1-5 and direction pulse of 0-5 in Mach3. Now whenever I switch the charge pump on the controller to the ON position and have the controller plugged into the...

It only gives the option step pulse of 1-5 and direction pulse of 0-5 in Mach3. Now whenever I switch the charge pump on the controller to the ON position then plug in the controller the light stays...

OK, got my "straight through parallel cable" today. Still no movement, I still have holding torque though. I have the pins set accordingly.

Pin 1-OUTPUT 2
Pin 2-X step
Pin 3-X direction
Pin 4-Y...

OK, I think the problem is the DB25 cable. It is labeled a Null Modem cable. I never realized there were different DB25 cables. I am going to order a straight through cable and hopefully that is the...

Using a desktop with XP. On the DB9 plug this is how it is wired;
1 Current Set Resistor
2 GND
3 GND
4 GND
5 Current Set Resistor
6 Phase B motor- Green wire from motor
7Phase B/ motor- Black...

OK, had time today to mess with it. I checked all the wiring. Went through the setup tutorial for Mach3 and everything checks out as far as those items go. I applied power to the controller and...

2.8k resistors between pins 1 and 5, STP-MTR-23079 is the Surestep model. 48V/7.3A is the output of the power supply. To tell you the truth I'm not even sure what Gecko mean by holding torque. The...

I have Surestep motors, G540 controller and running Mach3. I started doing the hookup and tests and everything looks good but I don't have any holding torque. Is there anything I might be missing? I...

I have SureStep motors that are 2.8 amp and am trying to find an inexpensive controller. Anyone know of one. I have looked at the Geckos but they kinda out of my price range and would like to stay...

Thanks for the replies! I ordered the belt and collets with holder today. My brother is going to check and see if he has any smaller endmills that will fit.
I'm still not sure how to wire the step...

The stepper motors have four wires and noticed the Gecko has a nine pin plug. Any wiring diagrams for these? Below is a link I found on their website.

G540 4-Axis Motor Control

With school I don't have much time with school and all but I would love to build one from scratch sometime in the future, probably be six months before I would be able to attempt anything. Although I...

Will it work with the Taig stepper motors? I thought about using a fourth axis in the future so that part would work fine. The stepper motor plugs were cut off so I need to put plugs on the ends, but...

Update: Picked up a CNC ready Taig mill today, anyone know of a inexpensive controller I can buy for this?

Going through school, have taken CNC programming along with other classes and am taking Graphics Communications right now. I am getting to a point that I am bored and can't focus and I feel if I can...