@@design8studio also I am really impressed with the dust show you came up with as well, I did make a small modification to it, my shoe kept on sliding off. So I put a boot through both the mount and shoe. Next I am going try your unistrut mod. Thank you for all of your great work!
@@ronaldmckenzie1 I put some strips of ultra high molecular weight tape (amzn.to/3TQ0USh) onto the shoe mount area where the dust shoe slides on, to get a tighter fit...I have been thinking about two possible improvements to the floating Z dust shoe: a "click and lock" way to keep the shoe on, and a set of one or more marbles or large ball bearings or printed globes on the bottom of the shoe, to let it "sled" higher up without the bristles being crushed, and with less resistance. I will probably tackle it one day soon. Have too much going on.
How do you find and set the hard and soft limits for your table? I am having trouble finding information on this. I assume it prevents crashes at the extremes.
The way I did it was to home my machine, zero out at the homed location, then move (jog) to the X max and Y max extremes, and carefully note how far I could go before making contact, then back off from that just a smidge, and see what the values are. Then, after saving a backup copy of your config,YAML file, edit the config file and input those values into the max_travel_mm value per axis. Then, also per axis, enable soft limits. I used to also enable hard limits, but unless you have limit switches on both sides and end stops at both ends, you’re not going to get a hard stop limit action at both ends, And I actually had my dust hose get against a limit switch blade during movement and it made the machine instantly and needlessly halt because it thought a hard stop had been reached and threw an alarm. So I no longer have hard stops enabled. But all this is done in the config file. Then connect and upload your new config file. Reboot. Then test and adjust if needed. You can also do Z, I do. It’s a little different. I guess you would remove the bit from the router and find how much the travel you have, enable soft limit to prevent crashes at the max location.
LOL, i was just doing this the manual way with a vernier, but I like this much better. But just a comment, if you look under FluidNC tab, then under the "config items" radio buttons just under the restart and other buttons, the pull-off is also listed there for each axis
This (or something very similar to it) was asked and answered on the V1E.com forum: “You can use TMC 2209 drivers with your NEMA 23 steppers, but it is likely the NEMA 23 steppers could take significantly more current than the TMC 2209 can provide, largely negating the reason to go to NEMA 23 steppers in the first place. Stepper drivers limit the current going to the stepper motor.” forum.v1e.com/t/nema-23-vs-nema-17-for-z-axis/34157
So I'm using your script, but for some reason my Jackpot is not giving me a 'PRB' Value. It's giving me a 'Hold' value. Am I missing something here in the gcode?
I'm not sure what's going on there. If you are looking at the right place in the console's feedback, then it may be that some difference in the firmware version affects the formatting of the output. I can scarcely imagine any valid reason for describing a probe value as a hold value.??
Jackpot is hardware (main board) and FluidNC is the firmware that runs on it. The Jackpot controller board can be ordered from V1 Engineering here: www.v1e.com/products/jackpot-cnc-controller?_pos=1&_psq=jack&_ss=e&_v=1.0 - and the docs for it are here: docs.v1e.com/electronics/jackpot/ (and from there you can get into docs about FluidNC).
I have been so much happier with this Jackpot board. I am in the process of changing out the Makita Router to the Kobalt Router.
Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy your machine!
@@design8studio also I am really impressed with the dust show you came up with as well, I did make a small modification to it, my shoe kept on sliding off. So I put a boot through both the mount and shoe. Next I am going try your unistrut mod.
Thank you for all of your great work!
@@ronaldmckenzie1 I put some strips of ultra high molecular weight tape (amzn.to/3TQ0USh) onto the shoe mount area where the dust shoe slides on, to get a tighter fit...I have been thinking about two possible improvements to the floating Z dust shoe: a "click and lock" way to keep the shoe on, and a set of one or more marbles or large ball bearings or printed globes on the bottom of the shoe, to let it "sled" higher up without the bristles being crushed, and with less resistance. I will probably tackle it one day soon. Have too much going on.
How do you find and set the hard and soft limits for your table? I am having trouble finding information on this. I assume it prevents crashes at the extremes.
The way I did it was to home my machine, zero out at the homed location, then move (jog) to the X max and Y max extremes, and carefully note how far I could go before making contact, then back off from that just a smidge, and see what the values are. Then, after saving a backup copy of your config,YAML file, edit the config file and input those values into the max_travel_mm value per axis. Then, also per axis, enable soft limits. I used to also enable hard limits, but unless you have limit switches on both sides and end stops at both ends, you’re not going to get a hard stop limit action at both ends, And I actually had my dust hose get against a limit switch blade during movement and it made the machine instantly and needlessly halt because it thought a hard stop had been reached and threw an alarm. So I no longer have hard stops enabled. But all this is done in the config file. Then connect and upload your new config file. Reboot. Then test and adjust if needed. You can also do Z, I do. It’s a little different. I guess you would remove the bit from the router and find how much the travel you have, enable soft limit to prevent crashes at the max location.
Your videos are pacing my build perfectly😂
Cool!
Another informative and timely video...tomorrow i was going to tackle this...now i know exactly what to do. Thanks again
Glad to be a help!
LOL, i was just doing this the manual way with a vernier, but I like this much better. But just a comment, if you look under FluidNC tab, then under the "config items" radio buttons just under the restart and other buttons, the pull-off is also listed there for each axis
Cool. Good to learn!
can you run Nema23 steppers with the provided TMC 2209 Drivers on the Jackpot controller ?
This (or something very similar to it) was asked and answered on the V1E.com forum: “You can use TMC 2209 drivers with your NEMA 23 steppers, but it is likely the NEMA 23 steppers could take significantly more current than the TMC 2209 can provide, largely negating the reason to go to NEMA 23 steppers in the first place. Stepper drivers limit the current going to the stepper motor.” forum.v1e.com/t/nema-23-vs-nema-17-for-z-axis/34157
Our NEMA17 steppers are quite powerful and commonly used for LowRider builds.
Hey Doug, recently i saw a CNC Router with a Diode Laser attachment. Curious if you did something like that in one of your videos
A lot of guys on the V1E forum have put diode lasers on their LowRider CNC. I have plans to add one to mine, but I haven’t gotten to that point yet.
So I'm using your script, but for some reason my Jackpot is not giving me a 'PRB' Value. It's giving me a 'Hold' value. Am I missing something here in the gcode?
I'm not sure what's going on there. If you are looking at the right place in the console's feedback, then it may be that some difference in the firmware version affects the formatting of the output. I can scarcely imagine any valid reason for describing a probe value as a hold value.??
@ I just DM’d you on the V1E forum with a screenshot. Maybe you can see something I don’t.
Jackpot ? FluidNC? What is the difference? Is there any explanantion about this? :) thanks
Jackpot is hardware (main board) and FluidNC is the firmware that runs on it. The Jackpot controller board can be ordered from V1 Engineering here: www.v1e.com/products/jackpot-cnc-controller?_pos=1&_psq=jack&_ss=e&_v=1.0 - and the docs for it are here: docs.v1e.com/electronics/jackpot/ (and from there you can get into docs about FluidNC).
Thank you :)@@design8studio
Thank you :)@@design8studio