[CNCZONERAMICO]

Thanks John for the info on the 6050 Drivers.

I apologize for making comments on the color of the controller box which I have edited from my previous post. I thought it was unnecessary and more of a personal choice. Color has nothing to do with operation and I just wanted to make that clear to anyone reading this.

More on Keling's Controller,

I like the fact that the Keling 6050 drivers come with an LED at the top of the drivers, this gives one an indication they are working. It is a nice visual to have when you trouble shoot, if you need too, but the box cover needs to be removed to see the LED.

Under normal operation, and I want to point out that most control boxes I have seen, are fully enclosed and Keling Controller is no different, you don't need to see the drivers and breakout board LEDs, but I thought it would be nice to take the cover and make a cutout so that I can visualy see the drivers "ON" led working OK whenever I am at the machine. I also mounted the controller on the side of my CNC enclosure, at eye level, so that I could hit the Estop buttom in an emergency, the Keling Controller lend itself very well for this type of setup ( I will have a picture to show how it looks later on).

Some people install meters to meter the amperage and voltage going to he motors and other indicators, I wanted to have a window on the controller box and it just so happens this particulr Keling Controller also lend itself easily to this slight visual modification. Like I said you don't need to, unless you are like me and like visuals. I am not sure if this LED feature on the Keling Drivers is a unique feature of their product, or if it is general with other drivers, but I really like it!.

I ran a part yesterday and both Mach 3 and Keling 3 axis Controller ran smoothly!.

I have not played with the various current settings on the Keling Drivers but I also like this feature of having the dip switch setting on the Keling 6050 drivers to adjust for various current loads. Another nice feature of the Keling 6050 drivers is that this dip switch settings and connections are all in line at the top, and I can ewasily acces them from the window cutout, I made.

Making the cutout on the Keling Controller Box:

I could have done the window cutout on the CNC machine, but I simply took a Dremmel Cutout tool and followed a measured pattern, cleaned the edges around the window, drilled 4 small holes at the corners to mount a plexiglass plate, this will probably have a hinge so that I can acccess the driver connections and settings, most people probably don't need to do this, if your setup is more permanent , but I will be switching motors in the future and this will make things easier for me to do so without having to open the controller box completely. Once again this is my personal custom setup and it is not required, for normal operation, the controller works just fine.

The breakout board also has an LED which is another nice feature and all these LEDs can be viewed through the cutout I made on the box.

I have not been able to recreate the slight issue I had with the Y axis not reversing, and I have tested the breakout board and connection for continuity quite throroughly, and everything checks OK, so I am going to let this go, as the Keling Controller is working fine now.


Once again, thanks to John, he has been very supportive of his products and he personally called me today to make sure things were running fine, adn I had the infromation I needed. He also offered to give me full refund if I was not 100% happy with the controller, but I am.

I will post some pictures of my setup and some stuff I do with it as soon as I get some more time.