Retro-Fit Denford Router

[ngwagwa]

Flashing lights and no magic smoke.




I need to source some bigger terminals for the transformer to rectifier connection and a twisted ethernet cable as going via a hub is having issues connecting.
The UCCNC software imported the Mach3 setting but although it let me set the E-stop and probe pins and port it doesn't save the home pin or port (looks like I will be googling tonight)

Lessons learned today.
You can lose a screwdriver several times in a small space.
DIN rail connectors are not the easiest thing to get the end of a wire in.
An electricl schematic is no substitute for a wiring diagram for an amateur.

[Neale]

DIN rail connectors are not the easiest thing to get the end of a wire in.

One good reason why some of us use crimp-on ferrules! They make putting wires into DIN connectors and other difficult-to-reach places a whole lot easier, and less chance of odd strands shorting out on adjacent terminals. I used them for the first time wiring my own control box and I'm a convert. Other people reckon they don't make as reliable a long-term connection but I'm not sure I could have managed to get wires into all the connectors in my box without them.

[ngwagwa]

One good reason why some of us use crimp-on ferrules! They make putting wires into DIN connectors and other difficult-to-reach places a whole lot easier, and less chance of odd strands shorting out on adjacent terminals. I used them for the first time wiring my own control box and I'm a convert. Other people reckon they don't make as reliable a long-term connection but I'm not sure I could have managed to get wires into all the connectors in my box without them.

I did tin the ends of all the new cables I used and the old cables used already had crimp-on ferrules. I guess there's a knack to it which obviously I don't have.

[Doddy]

It comes with geriatric knees.

[ngwagwa]

It comes with geriatric knees.

Knees weren't too bad, it was everything else as the only way I could the job done was to lie on the floor.