New member intro with spindle questions!

[Dave33]

Thank you for the reply Jazz,

my main guiding factors have been that my current spindle is around 3kgs so I wanted to keep the weight down to a similar weight as I have seen the bigger spindles are pretty heavy.

how heavy are the spindles you have ?

also never really felt that my current spindle is under powered, like you said it would be nice to run bigger tooling but not a must. if any thing id rather have a lower speed range as I'm not used to all this high speed, it scares me a little tbh

yes I'm pretty confident that my board can control the spindle, I might need some help with the wiring but I have a mate who is a spark who works in the automotive industry so I hope he can help me out.
I will try and do most of this myself as I enjoy the learning so if any one has any good examples of control circuit that would be amazing
I believe my board is a Reprap duet 2 so I think I will need a PWM speed controller and some relays, I also want to E-stop the system while I'm at it.

[JAZZCNC]

Thank you for the reply Jazz,

my main guiding factors have been that my current spindle is around 3kgs so I wanted to keep the weight down to a similar weight as I have seen the bigger spindles are pretty heavy.

how heavy are the spindles you have ?

I would have to weigh them but would estimate around 5Kg with a spindle mount.

[cropwell]

Good guess Jazzy, 5.3Kg without the mount. I couldn't get a mount to weigh as it is on my mezzanine storage area and my legs are bad at the moment.