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    Shielded cable is the proper way and should really be used and like Swarf says just buy CY cable if you do.
    You'll find it here cheap enough and just use 4 core 0.5mm or 0.75mm. CY Cable
    Only ground the ends at the control box and make sure your control box uses star grounding. IE all grounds to same spot.
    Note he just means one end of the cable and not both. On the other hand you may get away with it and it all work fine? i did on my first one and that was a can a of worms. Saying that set it up right first time and you will have less problems to sort out later (spending hours guessing what the problem is).

    Bloody nice job by the way and a credit to the build so far. You have worked very hard ;-)
    If the nagging gets really bad......Get a bigger shed:naughty:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swarfing View Post
    Note he just means one end of the cable and not both.
    Ye I did and corrected it now has wasn't clear was it. .

    Quote Originally Posted by Swarfing View Post
    Bloody nice job by the way and a credit to the build so far. You have worked very hard ;-)
    Ye and I'll second that has well.!!

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    Thanks for the help, I have had a look at that CY Cable, I wish I had found that before I had started the wiring, Never mind I will separate the wiring to see if I get away with it . But first I will have to make new bench for the machine then I will be able to try it too to see how it works, But in the end I will slowly change the wiring to this CY Cable starting with the limit switches.
    My thanks again Mike.

  4. #4
    Well it's been a while since I posted a update. I have done some cable management and separating the wiring, Also I have made a table for the CNC to be bolted down on and also store the controller and computer underneath the CNC Router. I Bought a new monitor and mounted it on the wall above the CNC. I loaded in Mach 3 and now there life. I Quickly made up a spring pen holder and it drew it's first picture I am so chuffed. I got the computer from a friend that he had windows XP on it that had never been used since 2005. I was going to use the same computer to run the Mach 3 program and the CAM program, but find it's not practical. I will have to build another computer to run the Cam program like Artcam express as my laptop crashes when trying to run Artcam express and I also tried Vectric cut2D but the Graphics card in the laptop could not handle the program. It's some thing that I did not budget for. I have a case and some other parts already so it should not be to bad. All that I am waiting for now is some cable tracking from china and some single and double flute bits and I can try some cutting. There is some parts I will improve like replacing the wiring but for now it's running.
    My original budget that I worked out was for £1200 so I said it would cost a Total of £1500 when finished But I made some changes as I was building it so now the cost when finished including a second computer will be nearer the £2250 mark, it's so easy to get carried away, I built this to so that it would cut parts for my RC models but I have already started think about building a laser CNC, this has turned out to be another hobby on it's own.
    Last edited by Bush Flyer; 26-09-2013 at 09:48 AM.

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