Well, the adventure begins - the brains, nerves and muscles of the FrankenBot have arrived. Next up designing the skeleton…
Dumb question #1 (of probably many - LOL) - so, it appears to be 2 Z axis motor assemblies - but only one connector on the board and no Y-splitter for the cable. Make my own or is there some other trick? (and do we just trust that the two motors will stay in sync?)
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You can find 4 pin molex connectors on eBay fairly cheap the last time I checked. And as for keeping them in sync, they should be fine unless one skips a step. I have been running mine like that for weeks now. Just used a y harness and it works great.
Nice quality kit. Love mine.
Very jealous you got the new hotend :-/ haha. Let me know how it works out or if you have questions. Happy to help.
@Griffin_Paquette Thanks for confirming that. I have lots of connectors in various junk bins to make the Y splitter. Just wanted to confirm that was the correct direction to head.
Yeah no prob! I’m a guy coming from a Ramps 1.4 so I wasn’t crazy about the idea of having to y off. But it really isn’t any different. Motors pull no power on most z axis anyways.
Remember, for current-controlled drivers, it is best to wire the motors in series.
Skipping steps, for electrical reasons, should then not be a problem.
@Alex_Wiebe You laser cutting, or printing? I am printing, and once I design two more parts I will put out some pictures, I can give you the models if you want and we could work together and get this designed quicker. Only thing is that I am printing on a makers kit so only have a 100mm x100mm bed
@Alexander_Pritchard Most likely printing - although I do have a couple of (crude DIY) CNC machines that I might revive if I decide to make a bigger piece.
My Simple has been modded heavily and can do 210x190x90 (lost a bit of height).
@Neil_Darlow Got a link to a simple schematic showing the coils of the steppers to spell it out in detail what you mean by series - I think I get it, but don’t want to make an assumption.
@Alex_Wiebe Great, I like to do several parts that bolt together due to problems in the parts I have to reprint, but then it uses less plastic to reprint. Would you be interested in a collab?
@Alexander_Pritchard For sure - I was hoping somehow, someone (ahem @Brook_Drumm ) would setup a wiki or community for the FrankenBot where customers, etc could share tips, files, ideas, etc.
@Alex_Wiebe A github page perhaps?
Sure. Might take me a bit to get up to speed on github - haven’t used it, but shouldn’t be hard.
@Alex_Wiebe Frankenbot.org is available as a website if we want to do something like that
@Alex_Wiebe I belive I have a hosting plan from godaddy that can do up to 20 websites with email or something like that, only used two. But Github is free.
Ha ha - http://frankenbot.org - that would be great. Although, these machines (by design) will be a flash in the pan. Github is probably sufficient.
@Alex_Wiebe Yep, do you know HTML?
Only primitive web 1.0 stuff.
@Alex_Wiebe I don’t really do much, but I am learning, but I think you only have to do code if you get a http://github.io
