Well back from Christmas brake well for a few week now but day job has been keeping me busy. I have have been playing with wiring and relays and arduino uno and other little ideas. I am currently sell off some stuff it make some money to buy my new laser for workshop. I am going to start to play with my cnc machine time allowing as got some great ideas for some future projects.
keep watching this space for some fun projects that are coming up soon.
will make 2019 great year. had a little bit of a tidy up before leaving for Christmas.
Did manage to do some Christmas gifts. next year i will do them directly on their boxes as the new laser will have a bigger bed.
Christmas eve boxes for family will do direct engraving on the boxes next year this was just a mock up.Gift tags i put together for some pressensBeer holder for brother inlaw (Not my design)Voucher for Nice’s day out using someone else artwork traced and modified for a gift.
Been a couple of days I know since I posted last part. been fitting in bits between doing other stuff as having a nearly 14-month-old who is just about starting to walk keeping me busy as ever. I also do not want to disable the laser for long periods of time. as got some gifts to get run up before I head off to Wales for holiday period.
I Started off by cutting wooden panel as will cut perspex one after the system is up and running as easy to swap over. also a learning curve as not cut perspex using the C3D mini board. so will need to runs some testing.
temporary panel for the control panel.fitted all components bar one of the temperature gauges as was waiting on it to be delivered
after mock assembling the panel. I decided to put cutting disc to metal, so armed with Marker pen I marked holes and inner cutout box. I then centre punched holes before drilling.
ready for drilling and cutting.
I then drilled the 4 x 3.5mm holes and started the cutting process it took 3 discs to cut the cut out.
nearly cut out.
I then realised As had made it to small as the standoffs for the main control panel and the bolts for the new one were not away enough so going to have to notch the other control panel to fit the nuts but trimmed down the bolts with Dremel so it fits.
now to mount back to the machine.
I fitted the other control panel to make sure it looks right in the machine. i started on the wiring last night by joining the positives and negatives for temperature gauges and running them both off 5v pin off the original power supply. as I have separate power supplies for controller board 24v and 5v one for my machine lighting, my factory one is not overloaded. I will post a picture of them in action later on this evening as forgot to take camera down the man cave with me last night. Tonight I will wire the LED’s and the flow switch in. and if i get time i will wire up the emergency stop button as well. will cover all this in a later post.
Its alive! only issue is the 12v LED’s are too much power drain i might have to swap them out for 5v ones just he E-Stop to wire up now.
Ok Back to the drawing board as someone burnt though memory card ribbon when soldering up a powerless USB plug. (Doh) as i have been having some brownouts I decided to install this kit. will review it soon.
Never mind so time for safety panel Mk2. just going to order a second temp sensor as then ill have water input and output readings. Jumped on to Lightburn and just adjusted will post SVG once I have finalised it all.
So tonight little operation on the k40 is to first of all cut another test panel as my 13mm led bezels were a little tight. Will then cut a template panel for cutting the hole in the metal work. before drilling fixing holes and taking a Dremel cutting disk to the panel. I will be doing this off the machine. vibrations love to mess with mirror alignment.
The wiring of the system:
Wiring up the emergency stop:
The emergency stop is 4 terminal so will have both Live and neutral running through it on each side of the switch. then to the power switch on the main panel.
Wiring up the LED’s
Pump active LED will be wired in line before the laser on/off switch but after the water pump switch.
I will splice the laser active LED to its switch. so when on its lit when off its not will take some images and add them later.
Water flow switch
After looking on Amazon found a cheap one from China will give it a test drive. as will be open when water is running through it going to fit it to return pipe to the bucket.
will wire this before the laser active switch so will cut output if pump or water fail will shut off the laser form firing causing any damage.
Argh, amazon prime was out of stock of second digital temp gauge so have had to order off eBay now waiting on bits before I start cutting up the machine, so there will be a part 3 to follow soon as I have all the bits in.
As I have had some mishaps over the last few months. 2 minor fires as I was not paying attencion.
One resulting in damage to my perspex window. that and a water issue when my outlet pipe came out of the water bucket.
I have decided to add the following.
Water Flow switch which will cut if there is no water running through it.
LED’s to show laser is active and flow is active.
Temperature gauge to show the temperature of the water in the bucket.
Emergency stop switch.
SD Card slot (This May Change if it doesn’t work I will replace it with inlet water temp outlet water temp gauges)
I have done my first draft run of the panel and have also marked out where i am going to place the panel.
Next job is to cut out the metal so I can put the panel in and drill holes for fixing panel in place.
I have wired up the temp gauge to the 5v output of the laser supply as I no longer use it due to have C3D mini installed. That way when the laser is switched on the temp gauge goes on. I will get into the wiring of the emergency stop switch and led later on as I do it.
As I am off to Wales for a few days I will resume the project on my return next week.
Looking to buy a bigger laser in the new year for more fun projects hopefully will be then able to do more stuff on the youtube channel.
will be looking to open an online shop for commissions and goods as on my downtime have been designing some cool stuff that I will be sharing soon.
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