Chinese 2.2 water cooled spindle / Which VFD ?

[dudz]

In my logic, If I am offered something Chinese , I want it dirt cheap. As they haven't exactly set the world trademark for quality. I have 3 Chinese dirt bikes, very good price, but once left out in the rain, the lack of quality of the steel and chrome really shows. After 2 years, 60% of the parts needed replacing. No money saved there. I knew I should have bought Japanese !
I have watched countless youtube videos, and it swayed me more towards the Kress. For small jobs in Alu they seem very good.
I am just a beginner in the Diy CNC hobby, and I'm sure I will learn by my mistakes.

[Jonathan]

In my logic, If I am offered something Chinese , I want it dirt cheap.

The 2.2kW spindles are dirt cheap compared to buying from the UK/USA/Germany etc from a recognised company.

I have actually just bought a Kress 1050FME as my machine has a 43mm holder. I am going to buy a SUPER PID for the controller www.SuperPID.com - Super-PID Closed-loop Router Speed Controller

That's a shame... The Kress will have much (in order of importance) poorer rigidity, worse runout, more expensive collets, lower lifetime and be noisier. If you're using it for aluminium it will not last long since it's still just a router (albeit a good one), not a proper spindle, so the bearings are a lot smaller among other things.
Before I got my 2.2kW spindle I was thinking of getting a Kress and I'm very glad that people on this forum persuaded me to spend the extra as the 2.2kW spindle has been faultless.

[stuboy]

I have a Siemens Micromaster 420 on my 2.2Kw Chinese spindle, have mach3 controlling it just my breakout board frequency to voltage converter is not linear as far as i can tell!
Cheers
Stuart