My 1st Hybrid Steel/Ally (1150 x 850 work area) (comments/advice please)

[Boyan Silyavski]

Gotcha, thanks.

Been buying all my electronics from China for a while now, so have learned a few tricks :).

I'm thinking of pairing the AM882 with 86HS35 steppers. Good match?

Not sure I should belt-drive both X-axis ballscrews from one motor, or drive each individually.
If I go belt-driven both from 1 motor, I'll go look out around here for some examples.

If I go individual drives, what size motor should I be thinking of?

No. this is nema 34 stepper . You need Nema 24 stepper 3Nm 4.2 A and look for the Low Inductance. I mean if you can not source that exact one below, which most people here use with the AM822 drivers or similar.




That in case you decide to move the gantry with 2 motors which i recommend personally. Otherwise you will need to investigate Low inductance nema 34 motor which is not easy to come by at all. In that case you can look what motor they sell at http://www.cncrouterparts.com/960-oz...tor-p-112.html. its not so easy to source such motors as one may suppose.Read more here why it matters. But may be some one here can enlighten me which China guy sell them. Its good to know.