Hi,
Just getting to the final stage of my build using Viscious1’s kit which finally arrived in London UK after USPS decided to send it to Canada and back to San Francisco before crossing the Atlantic! Very impressed with the whole kit, engineering and the whole idea
1 I spotted that the Z axis spacer has an projection to orientate it but didn’t spot the one on the nut trap. Lesson is that if the conduit doesn’t sit in the rear roller channel the nut trap is probably upside down.
2 If you clumsily unwrap the stepper cables then the following can happen (see picture). The mistake is to rapidly think the untangling is obvious. In my hand it wasn’t and I ended up cutting off the end socket, sorting out the cables and then recrimping them. Out of interest the female crimps and housings are available from http://www.toby.co.uk/content/catalogue/products.aspx?series=1800-Hxx in the UK.
3 If you mount the ramps board in Allted’s lovely curvy case ( http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1183975 ) then make sure the press switch on the side doesn’t foul the hole otherwise repatier will think it’s connected but nothing happens.
Otherwise assembly went straightforwardly and all axis move under repatier control.
So 2 questions:
Using the Ramps curvy case in theory should the fan blow external air over the board or suck hot air out? I am a scientist so idiot questions like that are natural to me!
Does Estelcam replace repatier as the controller or does it just produce gcode for a controller to run?
That’s it for now, hope the idiot comments help future novices
Dennis
