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My dad had been wanting my first router I built and since I have not ran it since I put the CSMIO/IP-M on the big machine I decided to let him have it. Of course he wanted the same controls I had on the big machine with a mpg module, new digital drives, and all the bells and whistles. He said he would pay for all the upgrades so I decided why not. Besides it would refresh my memory so when I picked back up on the lathe project I wouldn't be totally lost. I totally gutted the panel, put the new controller and drives in, and rewired everything. Finally finished the wiring today and got the mpg pendant all soldered up. I had checked all the inputs on the controller and mpg module and was filling pretty good about everything. After an hour or so I had the pc connected and had established communication. I flew through all the limit switches home switches etc. Thought to myself Ill have this running in no time. WRONG!!! For the last four hours Ive double checked all the wiring to the drives. All appears to be in order. I have been through all the configuration and plug in screens and checked that all channel settings are correct. Still no motor movement. The motors are locked and green lights on all the drives. Im using KL-4042D Drives on 3 of the axis. The z axis is larger. Its my understanding that the ENable pins do not have to be wired, but I could be wrong. Next odd thing that I noticed is when I hit the jog key on the keyboard Im not seeing the dro shift. So I am not sure that its getting the command. I tried jogging with the mpg with same result even though the leds were flagging like they should on the mpg module. I am going to attach my xmL file and maybe there is something silly Ive missed. Its hard to remember everything doing this only every few years. Ive combed through the manual and even went back and checked to see if I wired something different on the other machine but cant find anything. Im hoping its the enable on the drives. Ive got some time to get this machine finished up, but it will be headed from Kentucky to Texas in April. I would like to run it some and verify there are no bugs before then. Any help will be greatly appreciated. By the way I did update all the firmware just in case that was the issue. Thanks in advance!!!
Got a drive powered up and communication established. I have to hardwire the estop and servo enable, then I should be able to start testing. Controller is here now also. Lathe is still on backorder, with no idea when it will be here. May just cancel that order and go with a grizzly. As I get time to continue to work on this project I will update thread.
I haven't been to warehouse to check yet but I believe I may have found another drive and motor if my memory serves me correctly. Of course its Mitsubishi to. I am going to move on with this build and try the timing pulley approach first, but If I need more torque I'll switch to the bigger drive and motor. Good news is all the wiring will be the same since all the drives are the same besides watts. Hood, I ordered the CSMIO/IP-A tonight. That should push me to the next level. I've actually read some of the previous interfaces with CSMIO/IP-A on the MR-J2S drives on the forum and there is a lot of good information. Hopefully you guys wont get tired of hearing from me. Should have all my cables and terminal blocks in a week or so. Got the test circuit wired up last night on one drive. I have an alarm on the drive, but I cant turn it off or jump out since I haven't received any of my cables yet. I plan on getting the panel built and everything roughed in electrically before the lathe ever gets here. Have a couple of months since its on back order. If you haven't saw it already, check out the gunstocks topic on show and tell. I revived it this weekend with the latest picture. Its really come a long ways. Look forward to hearing from everyone!!!!
. The gear boxes were actually 20:1. With the pitch lead screw I was looking at it would give you a whopping 30 in/ min at 3000rpms. That's not going to work. Lol. Guess I got caught up in what I had in those motors and drives. Free!!! Continuos duty rating is 90.6 oz/in. Max torque is 269 oz/in. And yes Hood that would be like watching paint dry. . I can change the ratio no problem, but in doing so I don't believe I'll have the torque I need. I guess I'll have to go back to obsolete machine warehouse and see if I can find something else. Or just build stepper motor machine. I'm going to build the machine regardless. Just working on a budget like most everyone here. What are your guys thoughts on the torque I need? It's only a 9 x 19 machine , but it takes the same amount of torque to cut metal regardless of machine size. Minus the additional torque to move the cross side of course. Thanks for everyone's input. Keep the comments coming.
The reliefs of the eagles are oak. The center section of the stock is oak, and the outside pieces are walnut. This one tops off the most time involved in one to date. I cut the lettering pockets with a 1/16 end mill and had to switch software mid stream to do it. This one will be mine. LOL I had plans of doing another theme stock after this, but Ive put that on hold. Hope everyone enjoys. When the build is completely finished I will post some pics.
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