@neilferreri It looks like I have the v2.3 board.
If youāre comfortable with some small electronics work, I made a PCB that breaks out the switch pins to screw terminals. I āfuture proofedā it by adding a 5V rail and some PWM pins. You could easily remove the connectors on the prox switches and use the screw terminals. Iāll have to track down the extra boards, but itās yours if you want one.
It mounts directly to the 12pin connector on the board. The controller cover wonāt fit anymore, but yours is old enough to look a little used.
@neilferreri Thank you very much for the offer, but this might be out of my league! Iām comfortable with most things except when it comes to these boards, Iām afraid I would make matters worse. Support did get back with me and i think Iāll look into that path of getting new. Thanks again for the help and offer, I really appreciate it!!
Interesting to see the 5v rail brought up to the headers. The surplus current available on the CM PCB 5v circuit is not great, so if you are going to use this 5v āfeedā you will need to keep down below 100mA or less. The on-board 5v regulator only has so much current and thermal capacityā¦ Best to use the 24v and provide your own 5v on the PCB from my experience (unless you are sure of max current demand).
Youāll never guess how I learned this
The 5V was only pulled out for lines like those on proximity switches or a probe indicator LED. Iām not planning on running anything with the 5v. Itās the same idea as the expansion board C3D has now or that others have made. Iām actually not using it now (still on original Omrons), but I thought I might in the future. I also wanted to bring 12v and 24v out, but I figured Iād outgrow the controller before I made any use for those.
@osu22go No problem. Are you getting the new āProā controller?
Oh, I didnāt even think about it being setup as side by side pages.
I just opened a new download of the PDF in Acrobat and the Initial View in document properties is
Two-Up (Cover Page)
Thanks for pointing that out
Jeffery
Question how hard are they to install
Is there a video on installing them
Jeff
Have you see that one ?
The inductive homing switches are quite simple to install, please see:
I just finished my xxl upgrade to proximity switches. The upgrade was simple and took about 2 hours to complete. Although my upgrade took about 3 hours because I cleaned off dust from places that are otherwise inaccessible and removed the old sticky pads from the original assembly. These sticky pads had failed long ago. The original pads were the rather thick sticky pads and separated. The 3m pads they sent with the new drag chain brackets will most likely hold well but if they dont I can replace them.
In my post I had only one issue. The switches all worked by testing them with a piece of metal, however during the first initializing the X switch was set high to be detected and the machine made the horrible buzzing. I had my hand on the off switch so it only lasted a few seconds. I moved the switch down slightly and the metal frame would trigger the switch. Initialized and continued with setting up the BitRunner and all went well.
I like the new riser board that has all 3 sensors. I hooked up the BitSetter and BitZero to the riser board. Donāt do that. The BitSetter ran ok but the BitZero did not work properly. I put the jumper board back in, no harm no foul.
I had a similar experience, took about 2 hours of actual install time to put them on, plus some cleaning/wire cleanup time, plus a chunk of time chasing down a problem. The female connector for the riser board wonāt seat fully onto the mail connector on the Carbide Motion board, as a result the cover wonāt go back over the controller. I pinged support and as always they responded fast and are looking at it (support has always been great for me, kudos guys). My kit was also missing the M4x6mm BHCS for the Z-Axis Proximity Switch Mount but I have an assortment so that was no big deal.
Just opened up the box with my new proximity switches and the M4x6mm screw is missing. Unfortunately i cannot find a substitute in my collection of odd screws
@neilferreri. good question, I donāt know the answer to it or know if Iāll be able to tell when I get itā¦I ordered it up so Iāll let you know when I get it. I had another limit switch issue so Iām hoping a new board and switches will let me start from scratch and it will all hopefully work!
Has anyone here had experience with Carbide3d exchanging or accepting returns on items? It looks like I ended up with the standard proximity switch kit instead of the XL that I need (I assume thatās what it is as my pigtails on the switch are really short). Iām tempted to go ahead and order another kit hoping that it takes care of the issue, but I donāt really want to keep the standard kit. Also, does anyone know if the location that they ship from in sterling, IL is one where I can walk up and try to exchange this? I thought I would see if anyone had any experience with this. I do have a ticket in and Iām sure they are looking into it in shipping, but Iām just on the edge of not getting this in time for a project I want to work on Friday if I donāt put in an order soon I would guess. Thanks for any ideas you all might have!
in my experience an email to support and all reasonable requests get fixed quickly
Please e-mail us at support@carbide3d.com
Unfortunately both of our locations are in industrial parks with no provision for parking or customer access, so a physical exchange isnāt an option.
In my excitement to purchase I made the same dumb mistake - working with support to get it resolved but have a deconstructed machine in the meantime I could put back all the old switches, but I think Iāll just wait it out.
Thanks for making me feel better ha! I went ahead and ordered an XL kit up because Iām also hoping to get things back together after tearing it down. I got an email with instructions on how to send the standard kit back, so Iāll get that moving soon. Lesson learned-make sure you double check the pull down and pick the specific machine you have!
just got emā¦and no new cool stickersā¦machine 2k. hdz 400, bit setter, bit zero now switches and no cool stickersā¦im really bummed about itā¦but love my machine!