Auto traversing mechanisms: ideas and potential problems.

[Chris Turner]

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[Chris Turner]

That all looks like a lot of work to me...like I say, two cheap single axis stepper drivers off ebay & a 24V psu, a demo version of MAch 3, and Gcoil to generate the g-code for the actual coil wind is all you need. Unless of course this is a mountaineer type ethos...you want to climb it because its there.

Which stepper card driver do you use? And where can you get this Gcoil software (do you have a link)?
--Ok, looks like Gcoil is a plugin... and I guess really any stepper driver card would do.

Yeah, this seems like a lot of work rolling your own code, but it's kinda fun, too. And really, not all of it is written from scratch... most of the "coding" is taking other people's work and adapting it to your own needs.

[peskywinnets]

Which stepper card driver do you use? And where can you get this Gcoil software (do you have a link)?
--Ok, looks like Gcoil is a plugin... and I guess really any stepper driver card would do.

I have a CNC machine, so I just use that, but for example...

M100 single axis A3977 74HC123 ST stepper motor driver controller 2.5A 12V-35V | eBay

you'd need two of those.

Gcoil isn't a plugin - it's a standalone program, you tell it what the dimensions of the coil you are winding & it generates/outputs a g-code file. It can be downloaded here...

http://pilotpage.monosock.org/filead...suite_v1.4.rar (gcoil is part of a suite of appas, but when you unzip, you'll see the program ....it has a pdf file to explain what's going on.


Once you've got your g-code file, you fire up a demo of Mach3 (free) & load your g-code...the steppers then start winding to the exact dimensions/turns you input via g-code.