My Cheapo Chineese 3020t mini CNC Build (more like improvements) leanring all the way

[ravihotwok]

Thank you very much lads for the help, so on the back of the bottom enclosure box I have 3 pins which a kettle like cable plug into:


This currently is plugged into the power supply box for my controller, can I just taop into these 3 pins and then wire some more wires to the spindle controller l, n and gnd?

[AlexDoran]

I imagine that would be fine, can't see it drawing more Amps than that plug is designed for.

Alex

[Desertboy]

Can't see the amp rating for the IEC socket but looks like it should be fine anything over 10amp is in the zone. If it wasn't for some reason you can buy a new higher rated socket very easily on ebay for <£3 but the size of those pins I'm sure that's 10amp minimum.

A good place to skank these sockets is old PC power supplies for pikeys like me ;)

[ravihotwok]

Again thank you very much lads, will probably have a go at finishing this wiring tomorrow night and report back :-)

[ravihotwok]

one last question,

what wires go where from the power supply box to the spindle pcb?

[AlexDoran]

What are the two terminals on the left? Power in? If so they will go there from the PSU.

Alex

[ravihotwok]

They say motor - &+ so I think I wired these up wrong, think these are supposed to go to the actual spindle?

[AlexDoran]

They say motor - &+ so I think I wired these up wrong, think these are supposed to go to the actual spindle?

Yes those are supposed to go the spindle, no biggy just swap them to the correct terminals on the PCB.

Do you know what the draw is of the spindle? I would advise against running that new PSU for the spindle through that On / Off switch, i would just power the Spindle PSU direct from the IEC / Kettle Plug, if you want to be able to turn it on & off away from using the wall plug, then get one of those additional IEC / Kettle Plug mounts from ebay like i linked.

You need to wire that PCB to the Spindle PSU, just take 'Power -' on the PCB to a 'V-' terminal on the PSU and the same for 'Power +' to 'V+'.

That should be all you need to do in terms of power.

Cheers

Alex

[A_Camera]

one last question,

what wires go where from the power supply box to the spindle pcb?

Did you read my post? Or was it not clear?

[ravihotwok]

Will read again mate, took some more pics as well. 1 min