Originally Posted by
blazemaguire
Hi,
First post, and a big question. Fully understand if people don't want to share hard earned knowledge to help,
Rob
I thought that was what 50% of the people here were doing??
Have you looked at Mach?
Free for up to a program limit and uses the parallel port for control.
Originally Posted by
tubeguy
Im still bothered by the somewhat wimpyness of the hardware and a converstion I had with a builder. His opinion was that all this hobby grade stuff is great if you dont have to make money with it or get inspected by your insurance company etc. I didnt like hearing that and am still looking myself. Bummer for me I have 1.7KW 230 volt 3ph servos to power....
That is not quite true, I am a CNC integrator, you can retro fit a machine according to code etc, it is purely your choice if you want to ignore the rules and make it per your personal spec.
If you are retrofitting a machine with 3 ph 1.7Kw servo's I would suspect the the size of the machine tends to be on the outer edge of the home machine shop realm.
But it is not impossible, there are many drives now such as Advanced motion that would cater to that size of motor easily, and 1 phase.
Also now VFD's will run 3 ph spindles on 1 phase.
It depends on what extent you want to go, you mention earning a living from it, then this, and the fact it is probably a larger capacity machine, you should be looking at the upper end s/w such as Camsoft etc, look at the ROI to see if it is viable?
Al.
CNC, Mechatronics Integration and Custom Machine Design
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert E.