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Hi Nick, you can also turn the power supplies on their side, vertically, and save space. Just be mindful about cooling. Not to close and the fan toward the bottom, should stay cool and save space. You can go either way with the power supplies, one or 3, you just have to make sure you have enough cur...

It doesn't matter what brand it is as long as it's an SSD, they are WAYYYY faster than the old school HDD. You can even use the old school HDD it's just not recommended.

The cabinet is already tight with all your components so you'll probably need to move some things around to be able to add in some DIN rail circuit breakers. You'll want a circuit breaker on each of the 5 components you mentioned. All 4 power supplies and the VFD. You topic title says "fusing&q...

Do yourself a HUGE favor and don't even waste your money on more open loop stepper drives. Buy decent closed loop steppers or better yet the Clearpath servos as you mentioned. Far superior to ANY stepper setup. It's best to build the system right the first time instead of wasting more money later wi...

I found the machining envelope. Does that only work when running a file? It will blow past my setting with the arrow keys. Yes, it's called the "work envelope". It only allows "machining" within the envelope coordinates yet allows moves outside the envelope when not machining fo...

I added some code to my homing macro so when it's finished homing at startup it then asks me if I want to run the spindle warm up procedure, a simple "yes" or "no" answer by the operator and it either does or doesn't run the spindle warm up macro. No PLC changes needed.

You would have to disconnect the motor from the ball screw and turn it by hand through its entire range of motion on the axis and see if there is any drag or binding. Do you have a keyway on the ballscrew and shaft coupling to mate with the motor? Did you use Loctite on the coupling?

If you buy one of the 1L PC's it'll fit very easily inside ANY control cabinet without having to chop it up into several pieces. I use HP Mini PC's and they measure about 6x6x1.75 inches which is much smaller than any PC that you would chop up to fit.

Thanks, Shawn,:) I will do the Google Drive thing. I did see all the resends. The weird thing is this happens a few times when I first power up the machine. Then after roughly the 3rd time. The machine runs and doesn't miss a beat. Just a note(ALL the ENA pins are pulled low and don't have that ugl...

tblough wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:32 am You could try swapping two drives and see if the problem follows the drive.

Tom, these are Clearpath servos and that would entail swapping motors....which may not be the same size.