Re: Buy or Build...That Is The Question
Originally Posted by
cavemancarver
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If David sees this post maybe he can comment on the table he built from wood. It looks pretty impressive and I have been wondering how it is performing. Is it as sturdy as you had hoped it would be?
The problem is those power supplies are $110.00 each and if I am going to spend that kind of money I might as well go with one of the 4 axis Gecko setups which have the power supplies built in. That might cost me a little more money but I will end up with good quality drives and also save a lot of time without having to build a box and wiring everything not to mention the likely troubleshooting I will need to do. Any suggestions here would be welcome.
Again...thanks to everyone out there for letting me tap into your experience and knowledge.
More to come.........
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I am very pleased with the wooden stand, very sturdy. I can't budge it in the X direction and it moves less than half inch at the top of the rails in the Y direction if I have the gantry moving quickly and stop it while jogging. When I flattened the spoil board there was a lot back and forth on X then incremental indexing on Y and I don't recall seeing it move when I did that (cutting at 250 ipm). But like I said somewhere, maybe here, I'm a woodworker so it just made sense that I would build a wooden stand. I can weld but don't have the tools or setup for doing much with metal.
On the 4 axis Gecko driver my only reservation would be that if one axis goes out do you have to replace all 4 or is it modular and you can replace one only? Just curious because I don't know...
David
David
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