Diy Cncmill

[seigrblod]

Hi, I have got a milling machine that I would love to turn into a CNC Mill, I have no problems with the Metalworking and hardware design but I am struggeling to find a nice and cheap solution to control the 3 stepper motors I have. They have 200 stepps per revolution and 4 phases (1 amp per phase).
Now I hardely know anything about steppers exept they can be driven in 99999999999999 different kinds of ways and each and every of these ways is more difficult then the last one.

I do not think that I would have any problems sorting out the programming issues but the part between the computer and the steppers is uncharted territory for me.

Would any of you happen to know a nice, easy and cheap solution to this ?

[Hawkeye67]

You can find a lot of free and cheap solutions at this link:
http://www.pminmo.com/
There is also layouts for PCB.

Good luck.

[wizard]

Or you can just go to Gecko and pick up a nice drive there.

[seigrblod]

Originally Posted by wizard Or you can just go to Gecko and pick up a nice drive there.

Yeah, I found some stuff there but i thought the prices still were pretty high.
This is because I have a problem realizing somone build the damn things and what to be payed more then the price of the materials

But I found some nice stuff here too: http://www.kelinginc.net/CNCPackage.html

I am thinking about buying the A or C package... I wonder if the A will have the power to drive my mill. I am thinking about using it to mill metal. Here is a picture of it : http://www.jula.se/Butik/docs/produk...dept_id=SE-255
So I guess I will need a lot of "lowend power" and less rpm..
What do you think about all this ?

+ I should get stuff runing on 220volts ...