Sieg SX2 Plus build

[russell]

Another two weeks gone - where does the time go?

It's been too hot here to do much in the workshop (at about 35C) but at last the conversion is now finished - well as much as anything is finished:



The box under the monitor houses the drivers. I bought a 4 axis TB6560 board from Fleabay. Yes, I know, but they are cheap and seem to work OK if you don't want high speed. I've built a b****y great fan into the box and the board doesn't get hot at all. One fault I've noticed is that one of the motors gets hot when the axis is stationary while the others don't. The board includes a circuit to reduce the motor current when there is no drive and I guess it's not working on one driver. I'll investigate when I've time and can borrow an oscilloscope but in the meantime I can live with it.

I must build a pull out shelf under the bench for the keyboard rather than balancing it on my knees.

Yes, I have at last made swarf but only operating the machine from the Mach3 console. Not done any programming yet. I've installed Mach3 and EMC2 and need to spend some time to understand them. Any recommendations for other software I might need?

Off now to start reading up on Gcode!

Russell.