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Good day today after all. Did a lot, got the machine running eventually after figuring out the hitches. I did get the machine to home and after that I got the turns ratio adjusted. 0.5 turns ratio is where I landed.

Adjusted the soft limits and have now 202mm x-axis, 125mm y-axis and 190mm z-axis ...

Got a short youtube video made of my project:

Okay, since last post I have made my first part with CNC. Super happy with that. I have zero cad experience and no cad software (yet). So I did look into Intercon and made a short programm following the tutorials and examples.

I am liking this one so far. And eager to get learning new stuff but ...

Got the spindle working aswell. Yet again many thanks for centroid467. All the wirings worked like a charm.

I also got the parking makro edited and that works now too.

I have now tweaked the base settings and I think the machine is pretty much ready to start working. Backlash was under 0.03mm ...

I did have to change the DriveOk input signal to NC state (red) and now the drives seem happy again.

Off to other activities for a momemt but I think I can continue to travel limits and axis setup plus home switches next.

-Olli

Thanks, I’ll take a look into photo album.

My steppers are Cloudray branded ones. Closed-loop type. And drivers CLE23. Seems to be very close to the Leadshine cs-d508 that are on the wiring instructions.

Today I got the drivers wired up and Acorn installed. I did the bench tests et al yesterday. I ...

Can someone enlighten me why is the +12V (in this schematic) brought to OUT1 relay and then wired to OUT4 with a jumper where laser enable is assigned? Wouldn’t it work the same if +12V were connected straight to OUT4 relay thus saving one output?

And is it really mandatory to physically cut the ...

Okay I did hit the alt-i and from the PLC diag I did force Input2 (that is my SpindleOk) to green and I got the jogging back on the axis.

Now the axis will move for a moment and then I get the 9031 Drive fault. Atleast some progress

Thousand thanks centroid467! I did hook up the VFD according these instructions.

I did also run through the centroid wizard for the first time. I did select leadshine cs-d508 as axis motor drives.

I did match the input and output definitions as the machine is wired

Axis configuration I did only ...

Got the axises tested and moving! Good stuff. They seemed awfully slow though 😂 But the drives seem to be working. I got the homing switches and e-stop wired up also and tested them. Then moved on to spindle but after 1 hour of intensive staring at wiring diagrams and looking at the VFD manual I was ...