The 2.2Kw Chinese Spindles - Info, Setup and Advice + More

[Danielroyal25]

Still looking at spindles on eBay and unsure. Had a good price off chai but with shipping takes it up a fair bit.
There's one via solar.jean which I am tempted by, is a four bearing model but only has a 3 pin connector. Is this an issue? Can an earth still be fitted - does it need one?

[Jonathan]

There's one via solar.jean which I am tempted by, is a four bearing model but only has a 3 pin connector. Is this an issue? Can an earth still be fitted - does it need one?

You could easily change it for a 4 pin connector, or just fasten the earth cable to the spindle body via the spindle mount or tapped hole in the Z-axis, assuming they're all metal.

The 3-pin connector may imply it's an older spindle, since in the past these spindles used to exclusively use 3-pin connectors. Clearly that's just speculation though...as I've already mentioned, my spindle with 3-pin connector from solar.jean has been good and does include 4 bearings.

[kingcreaky]

just buy it!. it'll be fine.

[asbo]

I'll post some pics of the one I got from the aliexpress link if anyone is interested?

[Danielroyal25]

Yes please & thanks Jonathan

[asbo]

OK, here we go.
3 pin plug
Other than that I have no idea about the rest of it, not fired it up yet as I've been feeling too ill.