recommendation for turnkey 3-axis nema 42 kit?

[coltz]

[Hopefully this is the right forum. Holy cow there are a lot of sub-forums!]


I have an old wells index w/ a bandit controller that fried. It has 1600oz nema 42's, 3-axis.

Any recommendations for a complete (ideally already assembled) kit for a retrofit? I'm hoping to rip off the electronics and old motors and bolt on new ones then go.

Keling CNC seems to have a reasonable kit for ~$1500. The other places I've looked at are either a lot more, or seem to be based in asia, where support would be iffy.

Larkin has a already built controller, but I think I'd need to get $2,400: Larken Stepper Motor control products

[Jackal66]

Coltz,

Are you sure those are steppers? There is a local Wells Index one of my former employers has, and it is servo motors.

Here is a link where we discussed it:

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/knee_v...per_servo.html

JAckal

[coltz]

Rick at Wells Index sent me the spec sheet and said they were steppers. However, I haven't checked by disassembling.

In any case I was thinking of just swapping out everyhing (driver, motors, etc)

How did your retrofit go?

Coltz,

Are you sure those are steppers? There is a local Wells Index one of my former employers has, and it is servo motors.

Here is a link where we discussed it:

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/knee_v...per_servo.html

JAckal

[Jackal66]

Coltz,

It's going slow right now. I guess you saw where I'm doing a retro on a Hurco.

After the Hurco is done, I'm going to try to get the Wells Index and do it.

Keep us posted.


JAckal

[coltz]

Ha, well posting to CNCZone at 4:48 am is not going to make you go any faster

I had my own detour tonight. Spent yesterday making a bunch of endmill and tool holders out of 4x4s. Pulled a tool holder out today (< 24 hours later) and it was covered with rust! I've spent the last couple hours cleaning rust off of 200+ endmills and a bunch of tool holders. Really sucked.

The only good thing was that it made it easy to figure out which endmills were carbide...

Coltz,

It's going slow right now. I guess you saw where I'm doing a retro on a Hurco.

After the Hurco is done, I'm going to try to get the Wells Index and do it.

Keep us posted.


JAckal

[Jackal66]

Ha, well posting to CNCZone at 4:48 am is not going to make you go any faster

The clock setting is off.

It was really around 6:50 am when I was posting.


Get out there early, and get it over with.

JAckal