Shapeoko 5 Pro Electrical box wiring and placement

[ArdianoWorks (Andro Purnomohadi)]

I’m just a noob an want to get your experience, tips, and tricks. I would appreciate that.

Finally got the machine initialized, did all the things the screen told me to do and it seems to work great. Probably check the trimming next.

Questions

1. Do I need to bleed the chiller?

2. You can see it I have the control box on the right back corner, VFD and Chiiler on the left back corner. VFD seems running great, but would there be signal interference from the chiller fans, etc?
   

   
   
   
   

3. I tied all 120V plug to the a surge protector and use this for on/off. Is this next practice? Would I ruin the individual box that connect to it?

4. That E button probably should be closer to the computer strand.

6. Would love to add remote pendant to jog.

Thanks

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

For the remote pendant, the usual solution is a numeric keypad, for which our keyboard shortcuts are set up:

Keyboard Shortcut Cheat sheet for Carbide Create and Motion

Hope this helps! [Carbide3D_create_motion_keyboard_shortcuts_CM5_CC6] Updated version for Carbide Motion 5 (note that keyboard shortcuts have not changed for CM6) and Carbide Create 6 (updated for 627): Carbide3D_create_motion_keyboard_shortcuts_CM5_CC6.pdf (665.0 KB) For folks who only use Carbide Create or Motion: Carbide3D_create_motion_keyboard_shortcuts_CM5.pdf (661.1 KB) — as noted above, this still works for CM6 Carbide3D_create_motion_keyboard_shortcuts_CC6.pdf (573.3 KB) and Car…

Some folks will do a custom keyboard of some sort — I will confess to having:

NineKeyBoard CNC Edition

because I love mechanical keyboards.

Another option is a keyboard remapping utility and a gamepad:

A different sort of pendant

I find the game controller and numeric keypad layouts a bit confusing (also, my son lay claim to the second Logitech F310 since he left his at college), and while I love the click on my wonderful 6 Key Keyboard (Techkeys SixKeyBoard CNC Edition) I find I need to change the jog rate often enough when using my Shapeoko that it has been consigned to the far corner of the basement for use with my Nomad (and I am anxiously awaiting the 3x3 version). Until that time, I’ve been looking for an alternat…

with the really high-tech folks using some sort of customizable keyboard such as a Stream Deck:

‘Elgato Stream Deck‘ Hot keys sychronized with the Carbide Motion command keys

Is there a way to configure Elgato Stream Deck with the command keys in Carbide Motion? I came to know the Streamdeck introduced in “Shapeoko Upgrade,” posted on Youtube. Do I need to write a macro file to map the keys on Streamdeck with those of Carbide Motion?

(I’d really like to know of one which has close to the minimal number of keys so as to reduce the number which would be unused/blacked out (6 for cursor and Z up/down, 4 for jog increment (1–4) which are arranged so that the layout would make sense and not be prone to the kind of fat-fingered fumbling which has cost me a couple of endmills)

A pendant has been mentioned as one possibility for the expansion connector on the SO5 Pro/HDM’s Warthog controller (a light tower is the other thing I can recall having been mentioned) — maybe now that the 80mm VFD is available it will move into the development queue (I know nothing beyond what has been shared publicly here unless I’m testing and told to keep my mouth shut until release).