Building a Joe's 2006

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Marm-

I've got a 10 ohm 10 watt resistor on the power supply (had to put a bigger load so that it would turn on, it's a switching supply) to that board so it drains the power pretty quickly once the switch is turned off. The router shuts off as soon as the power is switched off, I just tried it.

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Well, I think I've got everything working that I've hooked up so far. The charge pump is up and running, and the relay is turning on the shop-vac and the router. I used the schematic that Arturo has for the charge pump. The first time I hooked it up though I had it work and couldn't get it to work. At first I thought it was the computer I was using until I got a newer one and it still wouldn't work. So I got to looking at the schematic again and noticed that I didn't quite have it hooked up right. Once I got that squared away it came right on when the momentary switch was hit.

I still need to add the limit & home switches along with an E-Stop. The only thing that I'm having a little trouble with now is the Z axis keeps stalling out. I'll make an adjustment, run it up and down a few times stopping and starting along the way and it will be fine, but put it to the wood and undoubtedly it will stall and bore deep into the material. I made an adjustment last night and was able to get all the way through the project without any problems. I'm wondering if I'm getting enough juice to the stepper or not. Maybe I should see if I can get a bigger stepper for that axis. I'll wait and see how this goes, but if it doesn't get better I'll get something a little more heavy duty.