A few good ideas, but the case is to small in my opinion. The power supplies and CL-Stepper-Drivers are to near together. Also a plastic box is not really the best for handling high temperature of all aktiv components. And the most people I know about CNC are making the box to small, me too. One guy told me: make a plan what you need. Arrange all parts you need. Double the space and now you have the minimum.
I completely agree. If I were doing it over, I'd use different drivers that accept AC power and then put a transformer in a different enclosure to power them. I did upgrade the fans for better air flow. The filters I first used, blocked about 50% of the air flow, so higher CFM was helpful. I kicked around the idea of using a 6U to 12U enclosed server rack as an enclosure. More room, maybe add pull out drawers to mount the components. Often come with fans.
Thanks, I'll probably take you up on that since I've never used it before. It'll be a little while yet though. I did bench test the Mesa card with the steppers on Linux CNC and ran a simple G-Code program just to make all 3 motors run, but that's as far as I went.
Very nice layout
A few good ideas, but the case is to small in my opinion. The power supplies and CL-Stepper-Drivers are to near together. Also a plastic box is not really the best for handling high temperature of all aktiv components. And the most people I know about CNC are making the box to small, me too. One guy told me: make a plan what you need. Arrange all parts you need. Double the space and now you have the minimum.
I completely agree. If I were doing it over, I'd use different drivers that accept AC power and then put a transformer in a different enclosure to power them.
I did upgrade the fans for better air flow. The filters I first used, blocked about 50% of the air flow, so higher CFM was helpful.
I kicked around the idea of using a 6U to 12U enclosed server rack as an enclosure. More room, maybe add pull out drawers to mount the components. Often come with fans.
Nice work! If you need help with LinuxCNC feel free to ask me any questions.
Thanks, I'll probably take you up on that since I've never used it before. It'll be a little while yet though.
I did bench test the Mesa card with the steppers on Linux CNC and ran a simple G-Code program just to make all 3 motors run, but that's as far as I went.
Nice sharing If any custom PCBs are required, we'd love to give our support. (PCBWay)
Thanks, I'll keep you in mind.