Quote Originally Posted by Muzzer View Post
BTW, if you are bothered by the Bees Nest (TM) fans in the LiChuan servos, you can replace them with pukka Papst / NMB / Sanyo etc fans from CPC. I did this on mine and it has made the noise almost bearable.
Cheers for that. The fan in the servo drive is pretty damn loud.
I was originally just going to mount it open on the wall next to the machine until I heard the noise.
I've bought a bigger control box so I can get everything else + the servo drive inside it together and see if that helps.
If it still bugs me, then I'll give the fan swap a go

I'm still early days bench testing atm with my old parallel bob & Mach3 to get a feel for it (and confidence with servo's).
I'm playing will all setups, PWM, step/dir, axis, relay & opto modules etc.
I have loads of time on my hands to fiddle, and learning a fair bit :)

I'll start on benching the UC300eth next week with Mach and UCCNC.
I want to get a good feel for UC and get the controller working perfectly with both softwares first.
Then I'll fit up the new box and put them to machine.

Got myself a stepperonline driver for my Z last week too. DM860T (takes up to 80Vac or 110Vdc).
Putting 80Vdc to it which should give my Z (nema34 1080oz) a kick up the a**e