New build with recycled parts on a ridiculous budget 120cm*60cm work area

[Desertboy]

It works ;) a lot faster than my old PC lol not hard was an early quad core.

Got fusion installed so at weekend will spend some time going through the getting started tutorials.

[Nickhofen]

Nice to have your PC working, CliveS point me those tutorials for Fusion360 and I found them very informative.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...h54N-hVtLg5p6u
You might have check them already...

[Desertboy]

Nice to have your PC working, CliveS point me those tutorials for Fusion360 and I found them very informative.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...h54N-hVtLg5p6u
You might have check them already...

Will have to check some tutorials out but had a little "free play" last night lots of nice features made a few simple models a lot more intuitive than Turbocad.

[Desertboy]

What about these for stepper drivers?
https://www.omc-stepperonline.com/st...or-dm542t.html

I can probably just about scrape 4 of these and a breakout board next week and run them at 24v until I source a 48v one.

I know not as good as the EM882 I wanted but 1/2 the price and means I can start with linuxcnc.

Had a couple of hours playing in Fusion shocked how easy it is to make models I think it's only going to take me a week to transfer my turbocad skills to fusion the hard part will be the timeline which is quite different to Turbocad but I guess kind of like the part tree.

[Zeeflyboy]

I have 4 stepper motors and digital drivers very similar to those from when I upgraded my machine. They were running on 40v in my machine.

Could do a bit of a deal on those if you wanted?

[Desertboy]

OK still need to source the drivers, would using

4 of these
https://www.omc-stepperonline.com/st...or-dm542t.html

with 2 of these (2 per motor)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal-...YAAOSwaMpZno1f

be suitable for my machine

3 of my nema 23's are 2.8amp (X&Y Axis)
the other one is unknown but based on shaft length, size and weight it's 2 amp (Z Axis).

I was going to go with AM882's but seems overkill for my application and it's unlikely I will make major upgrades down the line to my machine as it makes more sense to build another one and then sell the first one.

[Clive S]

OK still need to source the drivers, would using

4 of these
https://www.omc-stepperonline.com/st...or-dm542t.html

with 2 of these (2 per motor)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal-...YAAOSwaMpZno1f

be suitable for my machine

If you are using a slaved axis arrangement then ideally you will need stall or fault protection to stop the gantry racking the AM882 will provide that.

The drives that you linked to seem to recommend 36V.

You could built a toroidal for not much more that would work better.