Quick Disconnect for Rotary

[Bill George]

Hi Everyone and Thank You for the replies .... John thanx a bunch for the Pictures .... but what I was thinking if I have my 4 wires from the Stepper Controller and put a Male Din Plug on the end of those and feed it through an opening at the side of my Machine .... and on the Rotary and Stepper Motor put Female Din Plugs .... that way I don't need the Rotary Plugged in when not in use ... also only one can be plugged in at a time.

Make sense ??

Now if I change the Rotary out ( power down of course ) .... and I have the Y axis plugged in and start the machine up and forget to change the program for no Rotary .... is there any possibility of Major damage ?

Thank You

Brian

You've got it backwards. The female end should allays be the hot end, (sorry ladies present) as the outlets in your walls are. Things you plug in should be the male end. Either way you can have just one at a time powered and it just won't work right if you forget.

[John Lifer]

No, I don't understand Brian. Where are you putting the connector? Inside where you reach it ?Or on the outside? If outside are just going to run the cable from the stepper motor outside too? (Obviously, the rotary would be outside.) Switch is there to keep y axis cable inside machine.

[Brian Book]

Hi John .... I was going to put the Connector on the inside .... that way when I want to use the Rotary I just unplug the Y axis and plug in the Rotary

Hard to picture I know but in Theory it should work.

Brian

[David Somers]

Brian,

Did Blanca ever say why it can't be wired with a plug?

[Brian Book]

Hi David .... no she didn't ... when I asked why the Rotary didn't have the quick disconnect she said my machine can not be done with them ? .... I just don't understand why it can't?

Brian

[Rich Harman]

Hi David .... no she didn't ... when I asked why the Rotary didn't have the quick disconnect she said my machine can not be done with them ? .... I just don't understand why it can't?

I don't understand either. Maybe they don't want to introduce a potentially driver-destroying feature. If you forget to power down I think you have like a 50-50 chance of blowing up the driver. If the user has to unscrew terminals to change over the wiring it is much more likely that they will have the power off.

[John Lifer]

But Rich, why put on larger machine? Sound like they don't want to change up features or add more complexity to their process.

I did search on the driver and it is a 4 wire driver, no reason not to be able to do it. Motor and controller doesn't care which way they are connected, as long as nothing is changed with power on.

[Lyle Cheredaryk]

John,
This (attached) was a reply to an Email I sent Bryant at Ray Fine about the subject. Seems they class that machine as an economic model. It would be nice if they clearly stated that fact somewhere. If they class it as such, that would explain the lack of plugs in my mind.Capture.JPG

[Bill George]

I doubt its an environmental issue with the machine not being done. Not putting plugs on is a cheap way out for them.

[Lyle Cheredaryk]

Bill
If you are referring to the mention of an environmental problem in my attachment, that is in reference to the NPC and CPPCC sessions their government was holding. It was explaining the delays in making my machine.

[Bill George]

Bill
If you are referring to the mention of an environmental problem in my attachment, that is in reference to the NPC and CPPCC sessions their government was holding. It was explaining the delays in making my machine.

Since there was a period after CPPCC. I read the next sentence as saying environmental issues were the problem. I hope it gets shipped soon regardless!

[Lyle Cheredaryk]

Actually it was just shipped this past weekend and is now on the slow boat to Canada.

[John Lifer]

Let me translate the Chinglish. They can't put connectors on the machine of this size as it will cost them money for machining the cabinet, purchasing and installing the switch and connectors and their margin is already small because they are competing with the other Chinese laser companies for those 'economy' models. Now where RF is failing is to offer ADD-ONS! They don't understand us western folks and that we would probably pay decent money for specific changes. Who has ever bought a car without 50 options? And I know I'd have paid twice or maybe 10 times their cost for the switch and connector to be installed. And for that matter the remote that RDworks offers. Took me 10 minutes and that was including taking off and replacing covers.

[Lyle Cheredaryk]

John,
I would say a perfect translation.

Lyle