Recommended 4 pin plug/socket type etc

[glynster]

Hi Clive, I appreciate your concern and I've taken your cautions on board. I have already built my machine and I am at the stage of determining electronics. The plans I am using call for Nema 23 motors 3.1nm and thats what I am using. I dont have the budget to buy top of the line drivers right now unfortunately. So I did go down the kit route purely because its my first build and I am learning how everything goes together - pretty much as soon as this is finished I will be making another one - it's not my "forever cnc" so to speak.

I didnt think to mention power ratings when I asked - I figured the DC current of home CNCs to be nominal and well in-line with standard audio visual power ratings. But you are right I should have thought about that. I havent bothered with a build log because I only built a Solsylva machine, they have been made and documented dozens of times online and I didnt think anybody would be at all interested.

[Clive S]

Wow! I take my hat off to you an you only started looking 3 weeks ago and two weeks ago you were asking questions re screws and now the cnc is finished apart from the electronics. Re the power ratings I don't think you can compare them with audio visual ratings the cnc motors could draw anything from say 3A to 5A ..Clive

[glynster]

I've been lucky enough to get to work full time on my machine. The Solsylva parts were easy to come by and the plans are fully step by step from Solsylva so they are a doddle to be honest - the only hard part was converting all fixings and materials etc to metric and scaling up from 18x24 to 600x1200mm. Solsylva plans dont cover electronics at all and some of the parts use US terminology or are not easily available in the UK or in equivalent metric sizes so I agree I might appear to have asked a serious of otherwise baffling questions.

I admit my plans have been at times confused, erratic and jumping all over the place. I am overcoming quite a serious illness and a multitude of life changes which doesn't help. The CNC build is largely a distraction/rehab project for me. My initial plans were to build something "spectacular" until other people's good sense and advice brought me down to earth with first building something much more modest like a solsylva machine. A couple of months ago I didn't even know the first thing about how a CNC router worked - I just knew that as a woodworker I could really use one. So I followed the Solsylva plans as a discipline of learning.

I admit, it's so complex that at times I have felt like tossing the whole idea in the skip but I just try to take one day and 136 problems at a time :-)