Its been too long between (machining) drinks, and finally this week we got some time to review the upgrades we have planned for the Sieg X3 CNC mill.
After watching Mark Preso doing some magic on his CNC, we realised this is all stuff we could and should be doing in the DesignLab workshop.
In this video we have added in the Tool Height Probe and MPG pendant (both I ended up purchasing from Banggood) and also commenced working with the Novusun NVCM4V2.1 USB Motion controller.
Being a dyed in the wool Mac user, most of my machines have never heard of a parallel port, and opens up a much wider array of potential host "PC's" for future.
We succeed in getting Mach 3 installed, adding the drivers included on the MPG and NVCM4, and then start with config/setup in Mach.
The Tool Probe looks smart, and after translating the chinese instructions (translation included at the end of the video) we see that the positional accuracy is 0.001mm, very tidy!
By wiring the "over distance" to the E-Stop, any over extension of the tool probe should fire off an immediate stop all to the motion controller.
Next up we attempted to get the motion controller driving a stepper in anger, however due to some voltage mismatch issues, we will come back to this in the next video,
Finally we verified the "spindle output" voltage 0-10V standard range for frequency control, means that we have an additional cool feature, Mach3 spindle speed and direction control
Thanks for joining us on this upgrade, dont forget to hit that like button, and ring that subscription bell.
see you soon!
12 сен 2024
