Hi There All,
I'm just about to take delivery of a 1336, should be here early in the new year. As per everyones advice, I opted for FCL shipping, and appointed a local agent. I hope it will keep my costs down. Sky Gazer stays just around the corner from me, he was hit with a "mysterious" $3K additional charge, over and above the normal charges on this side.
I opted for the bellowed rails version, as I mainly want to cut alu sheet metal, I'm in the aircraft kit building industry. The machine is equipped with a 4.5kW spindle, driven by a Talent Inverter.
Myself and Sky Gazer have opted to not even start up the Chinese software, we tossed his in a box, without even opening it. My first CNC router experience was a Step-Four Basic-540 3-axis router, and a CNC 4-axis foam cutter. I converted the original DOS operating system, and archaic control box to DeskCNC. I had perfect joy using the DeskCNC software to create my toolpaths, and use the DeskCNC 2nd generation card as the G-code interpreter. We decided to convert our J-Cut machines to DeskCNC.
We have now sucessfully run the 3 axis of Sky Gazer's 1836 with DeskCNC. The next stage is to get the spindle driven from the DeskCNC PWM output. We have a PWM to 0-10VDC converter card, which should now drive the Talent Inverter.
My 2 stumbling blocks are, I have the inverter manual in Chinese, and I can't figure out how to start the spindle up in manual mode, from the little keypad. Has anyone got some instructions for me. The second question, how do I change the inverter control over to external input mode, to be able to drive it with the 0-10VDC signal from DeskCNC? The talent-HK.com website is down, due to some or other internet clampdown in Beijing.
Any help in supplying operating instructions for the Talent inverter will be appreciated.
Regards,
Francois