Re: KMB1 Conversion
Wow, Its been over a year and a half since I upgrade to the DuGong drivers. I lost one on the Y axis at a little over a year. I replaced it and everything is good again. Y is the heaviest axis so in case deceleration (back EMF) was killing it I dropped acceleration to 25iss. I do have the "damper" board installed, but if the drive lasts longer I'll assume that was it. I bet between the table, saddle, and vises its moving well over a thousand pounds. The machine gets used about 3 days a week for prepping (square to length) blanks to go on the little 24K mills. It also does a few production jobs of its own where its running continuously for several hours, and about every week to week and a half I'll spend half a day using it as a second operation machine drilling hinge pin holes in hinged lead casting molds. In reality it probably runs (actually doing jobs) on average 20-30 hrs a week. Its the machine I use almost every time when a buddy brings a project over and says, "Bob can you help me with ..."
Bob La Londe
http://www.YumaBassMan.com