[pwasbury]

Looks like you multiply by 1.5 to get $ (currently)

I'm going to add a 'shop' (I use the term loosely) on my website that allows you to click and pay with paypal. Hopefully that should remove the issues with currency.
I'll also figure out what the rough charges for postage outside of the UK are and add some way to pay them.

Hopefully I'll be able to complete that this evening.

What is the address of your website?

Thanks, Paul

[kwackers]

Website is World of Ward :: Home.

I've added a 'shop' so it should be possible to order the pcb's and PIC's from there. I've separated out the postage and done some weighing and checking of postal charts so it should be correct.
Fingers crossed it *should* all work correctly. (Although the site seems a bit sluggish at the mo.)

(For the UK guys, apologies I had to increase the postage slightly in order to 'unify' it).

What is the address of your website?

Thanks, Paul

[john-100]

Hi Steve

your online shop almost worked

for some reason the postage charged was £0.00 plus £1.50 and not the £2.20 you intended

please send me a paypal invoice for the missing 70p

I should of checked before hitting the return key

I've sent the transaction number in a P.M.

thanks


John

[Ruby582]

Yes, I thought maybe you'd simply overlooked my query.

[kwackers]

Hi John, don't worry about the missing 70p but thanks for pointing it out. (Now fixed).
(I'm just trying to avoid making a loss, cost of packing, Paypal fees etc...)

[aarggh]

Steve, worked it out thanks mate, didn't have my brain switched on I suspect. Orders placed now.

cheers, Ian

[Christopher583]

Hello kwackers, thanks for this great controller, it is working great on the rotary table I built it for, but my brother has a table that has a 1500 turn to one rotation that he would like a controller for and the program as is does not support this.

[redpiperbob]

Sorry Steve I have just seen the postage price too I will send the 70 pence just now.
Bob

[rooies13]

Hi Steve

I have a suggestion on the indexer. When one cuts helical gears on a dividing head, the head rotates via a gear train from the table feed to cut a helix on the blank.

Maybe one can do the same with your controller. The only difference would be to replace the gear train on a conventional dividing head with a encoder input into the rotary controller.

One then selects witch helix degree needed and when the feed table is engaged the table moves and the rotary table rotates to cut the helix.

See the following youtube video how i need to cut gears. I want to use your controller with a helix cutting function and the encoder input from the table feed.

Please let me know if you think its possible?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyg0Emz4Vx4

Dennis

[Janice584]

I've looked at this in the past, basically the problem is at maximum step rate the interrupts occur at 10khz and the time it takes for them to calculate the next step (and acceleration/deceleration etc) accounts for 95% of the processor time.

[kwackers]

Hi Dennis,

The hardware would work with that as it stands but you'd need the firmware re-writing.

Cheers,
Steve.

[rooies13]

Steve

Thanks, would you be interested in doing something like that or is it a lot of work re-writing the firmware?

I think it would be a nice feature to add to the existing excellent controller.

Regards

Dennis

[kwackers]

Hi Dennis,
sadly it's a fair bit of work for something that superficially (to me at least) seems to be fairly specialist.
It's an interesting idea though - now if I had a use for it myself then who knows... ;-)

[rooies13]

Thanks Steve

Also thought that it`s a fair bit of work. Maybe in the future you can add something like this.

Regards

Dennis

[Nickolas587]

I would like 2 PCB's and 2 Pics. If you have PayPal you can send me a bill that way.

[Zahnrad Kopf]

Apologies, but I did not see a ready answer when scanning through the last few pages of the thread. Are there any all inclusive kits or pre-made units available? I'm all for banging things up when desired, but I've enough projects already, and would like a ready made unit that I can attach to a motor and table. Thank you for your time.

[kwackers]

Hi Zahnrad,
It's not really a commercial system so afaik nobody makes a kit. I do sell a pcb and component set on my website (and I'm toying with adding a complete and tested controller module) but not a fully boxed system.

I have been looking for a suitable ABS case that I could cut on a laser cutter, which combined with a keyboard PCB and 'homemade' overlay might make it worthwhile making in small quantities but haven't has yet gotten very far. However I don't think I'd bother selling stepper drivers - too easy to blow up if the motor is incorrectly wired and there's no one-size-fits-all.

Cheers,
Steve.

P.S. Website is 'http://www.worldofward.com/'

Apologies, but I did not see a ready answer when scanning through the last few pages of the thread. Are there any all inclusive kits or pre-made units available? I'm all for banging things up when desired, but I've enough projects already, and would like a ready made unit that I can attach to a motor and table. Thank you for your time.

[Zahnrad Kopf]

Sorry, I could have been more clear. I'm fine with that. I actually already have a stepper and driver. I just want the controller, but really have no interest in doing the low level programming and such. If I could purchase the board and components ( possibly even assembled? ) I'd be fine with mounting it in a small enclosure, running a cable, and wiring up the driver and stepper. Can that kind if thing be had? Approximately how much if so? Thanks for your time.

[kwackers]

Hi Zahnrad,
there is a component set, pcb and programmed PIC on my website. There's no LCD but they're available cheaply on eBay (but expensive enough not to be worth my while buying them just to keep in 'stock').

With regards a completed unit I'm still undecided. The dilemma is the connections, I can build and test a unit with no connections leaving it to the buyer to solder wiring (or fit plugs) directly to the PCB, my issue with this is that someone who's happy to do this might be happy to build the unit anyway.
I did consider sockets but these add to the cost and the buyer would still need to wire up the plugs - and for most they may prefer to simply solder wires directly.
Then there's the keyboard connection, I can't populate this since it's likely there's no standard keypad being used...
Finally there's the increase in cost as I factor in my time.

All in all I'm not sure whether it's an idea with legs although I might make a couple up with the above proviso's and them up on my website.
(If anyone has any comments either way though I'd be happy to hear them.)

Cheers,
Steve.

[wheelcutter]

Hi,

I bought an inexpensive K150 icsp programmer from eBay to program the pic for my rotary table controller. It is a USB programmer but it did not include any software or drivers. Does anyone have any suggestions for ths USB device. I have Winpic800 but it does not seem to recognise the programmer. I have searched for drivers but I am getting more confused as I delve deeper. My PC does not have a serial port and I run it on XP Pro with sp3.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This was original kit from Kitsrus.com website
they have a good forum, the following is the last download for your programmer
http://www.kitsrus.com/zip/diypack25.zip