If most electricians weren't so lazy, half of these CNC machines would be built by them. Then it would be easy to find good instructions for building the control cabinets/ shielding and grounding I appreciate your work, but too bad. It is sad that your good videos are hard to find under all the "how not to" videos

I’m wanting to purchase some of your spare parts for my Makerbot Method Extruders. Will any of those be on sale? Which parts would you recommend purchasing ahead of time? As in which parts most regularly need replacement/repair on those extruders?

Not relevant to the sale, but do you have those power supplies in different voltage or only 48V. Blessed year for you.

Honestly I love the energy you're bringing to this subject. I didn't even know about all the unwashed heathens out there were spreading nonsense about stepper motors out there but you're doing the real job telling them what's what.

If you don't use these 24K RPM Chinese Spindles, then these programming parameters don't apply according to HuanYang.

Great video: I’ve seen bad grounding cause all manner of gremlins and problems. The issue is that there is not really a cohesive doctrinal define design, guidance or methodology on grounding. If you ask a half dozen electrical engineers, you will almost invariably get almost a half dozen opinions on how to ground system. One thing I always do on any data lines is make them twisted pair (usually 50 ohm). This will at least cancel out differential mode noise. It would have been good to include a tutorial on this in this video (or a next ;-) on how to do it correctly.

How can I go about getting a Z axis touch plate script? Been all over the place trying to get this

Mr Vince next time use a microphone when your wife is near to you the volume is up in the opposite the volume is down and thanks for clean work

Add... the Z axes! No THC ?🤕

Vince a very good interesting video Happy Holidays and stay safe..

Happy New Year...

Thank you for your content it's been very helpful, could I ask a question. You don't like multiple power supplies in the controller case, unfortunately I went with the Chinese servo company's recommendations and put 6 power supply's in the case, and yes I am guilty of monkey see monkey do. Would you use 2 cases one for the power supplys and another for the controller and logic stuff?

I agree that the term 'hobby CNC' is misleading. In the past, maybe it would've been appropriate to call these machines 'hobby' because they weren’t powerful or capable enough to make products for financial gain. But today, desktop CNCs and even 3D printers can produce professional grade products with high precision. These machines are now comparable to industrial machines. It's time to focus on their actual capabilities and the work they can do. Merry Christmas from KSA ✋🏻

Vince Great video, I feel the same way about all the 3D printed products being sold these days. Happy holidays.

Happy Holidays!

yeah but what would i make? nothing sells these days. I need a problem i can solve

I find it funny when someone on reddit asks for CNC machine options for small aluminum projects or one offs and essentially most people get on their high horse and say it isn't possible and that they need a 100k machine, that even a Tormach or used HAAS is barely acceptable. Alternatively the other people recommending to buy old industrial machines they got for $3.50 off ebay shipped and rigged to their house- it's not realistic. People have made businesses cutting aluminum on machines like the Shapeoko. Like you say these people worked around the limitations of their machines.

Hey Vince. Wishing u a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I think the line should be set clear, once u have customers even If ur selling items for 1 usd this isn't anymore a hobby. I have a full fledged shop with a professional machine and I only do stuff for myself and my family. Whenever someone tells me they want to do a page and start promoting my stuff I refuse. My day job is enough stress, don't want my hobby to become the same. And bo matter what customers bring strees

Thank you

Awesome video! I love the idea of the resistance of the motor to determine connectivity. Magnetism is still a mystery to me.... I had an idea of plugging the connectors to the suspected pin pairs into a breadboards +/- rails and a multi-meter set to 200mV connected to the same rails using alligator clips. Turning clockwise for each wire set can tell you if the voltage becomes is + or - , potentially allowing you to determine +/- leads for each coil (or at the very least for each pair of coils you can make them move CW/CC to avoid potential problems, which I am paranoid of). Is there something I overlooked? Can that be used to infer + and - pins for each wire pair? I'm still an amateur so I feel like I probably overlooked something...

Help Please, i am using mach3 and all my touch programs have been loaded and work fine. My current touch unit is 10.5mm thick, and working but i would like to also use another touch plate of a different thickness, but i dont know how to add an alternative . When the little z off set box appears, there are 3 settings but only the one i normally use is useful for me. How do i add an alternative touchplate. I have tried operator/ vb scripts but there is nothing in it like where your probe program is. Thank You

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I have no idea what you’re saying because you didn’t utilize closed captions for the deaf & hearing impaired. I had to move on to another content creator who cares to do so.

I appreciate this video. I found you on the servo motor video Nema 34 vs. the 23. I am in the research phase of a CNC plasma, and all the videos you showed here made my skin crawl. I don't plan on flushing money down the toilet. Thank you.

Don’t put flux on anything that you don’t want the solder to stick to!

Hello, sorry off topic, but I was interested in making a uc100 from a esp32 to db25 port. So just plug n play with g540. Sorta baffled that nobody makes one. Ugs as a back up to uccnc. I love uccnc and uc100. Many times I'm not interested using my laptop, raspberry pi would be great.

sir, what is the recommended base frequency ? i noticed you set to 10 Hz. How do you com about this?

Every video you post helps us learn more for building a better system, thanks.

Thanks a lot Vince, very useful video. Would be nice to have something similar for the UC300ETH controller and the UCCNC software 🙂

I just tested my spindle, no connection from the pin 4 to the case so I pulled the connector, it was blank. I will use the shield to the connector backshell to ground the spindle. Next thing I noticed was the internal wiring of the spindle was very thin, and the insulation was very thin. Plus there was no protection between the wires and the spindle case, they can rub and short with vibration. I will add some protection there.

Do you still sell kits? I’ve never soldered before but I was given a nice hakko iron for my birthday.

I can't hit the like button twice !

Pretty much useless info . Comes down to the machine rigidity and making a quality part . Not how fast some no name software can sprint through a program. Waste of time even filming it

My machine would bind in the X direction and I eventually gave up on Ref All Homes unless the X was right next to the limit switch. This video showed me after endless searching that the slaved A (to X) motor also has be checked in Home Neg.

Vince let him talk. I’m in the process to build my controller. For the next weeks I view your channel and learn, building is on hold until… I like to tank you for sharing your knowledge to us all. Finally it will save me money and frustration. Keep on doing the great work

Thank you. I am Gonna redo the soldering for my vfd before i use it for the first time today! I have not used flux because i didnt know how its used and didnt know it is nessecary. Soldering took me like 1 hour because the tin kept blobbing on me and not sticking, it drove me crazy! I didnt know flux would do this magic.

Simple and Clean Work

Hi. Great video as usual, thanks a lot. If at the VFD side i connect together the ACM and the DCM is it a problem ? Any issue ?

Did you take into account or test different acceleration rates?

That was a mess. When I build my first CNC machine ground was the most important part. I think any one who doing DIY should watch your video as a prerequisite. No one should be cutting corners when doing any kind of electrical work is being done. Cheers

Vince Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

I have a question for you. I've been trying to find an answer to this question, and I have been watching your vids for hours trying to find the answer. My 2.2kw water cooled spindle came with a 3 lead cable and no ground, just like you said. It's from overseas, but the cable to the spindle was not shielded at all. So i bought a 4 lead 16ga double shielded cable like you said to get. If i solder in that ground lead into the number 4 pin that plugs into the spindle, do i need to make sure that the backside of that connector on the top of the spindle has a ground wire that bolts somewhere to the inside of the spindle? Cause i took the top cap off to see if the backside of the spindle connector was just sitting empty since it only came with 3 leads. Sure enough, there is no ground wire that connects somewhere to the inside of the spindle body, and the backside number 4 pin of the spindle connector. If i solder that ground lead to number 4 pin on the cable plug, its not grounding anything cause it is sitting empty on the spindle end. Do i need to run a ground wire to the back of the spindle connector and bolt it somewhere inside that pocket under the spindle cap, to connect the spindle body to get continuity? Or should i just solder up the 3 leads like the stock cable it came with and leave that 4 pin empty, and that ground wire in the new cable sitting unconnected? I've been searching for hours, and i am exhausted and frustrated from not being able to find that answer. Also if the spindle is grounded through the cable to the spindle that is attached to an all metal cnc/chassis, do i still need to ground the chassis? Ground both the spindle through the cable and also ground the chassis? Or just 1 or the other? My entire cnc is all metal from top to bottom. I dont want to mess up my new 2.2kw spindle. Any help would be greatly appreciated a lot. Thanks man

Hi Vince, Binging your videos now as he have to retrofit a used machine. Anyhow, I have been scouring the internet and one thing still confuses me, it seems some people say to never terminate the shield at both ends and some do terminate them at both ends. It's still a bit unclear to me, how you approach this? Also, my limit switches (inductives w. three leads) are not shielded. Should I replace the cable with shielded cable for those? And on that same note, would it be ok to share the power and ground between the switches, so I can use connectors with fewer pins? If it didn't make sense, then say I have 6 switches, that would be 18 pins on the connectors between the machine and the cabinet as each switch has three wires. But only one of them is a signal wire, so that's just 6 wires for the signals. And then I could run power on two more pins and the total would be 8 pins - instead of 18 pins.

Hi, I´ve been watching your videos for the past few days and I must say, although I am no expert on the subject, your videos give me the feeling that you are one of the rare ones regarding electricity that one could trust. I would like to try to implement this method of shielding and later grounding myself and I already found shielded cables on amazon to replace on my hobby cnc stepper motors and subsquently other cables as well. Could I just open up this already shielded cable and insert the copper tape on the unshielded wired, put everything back together, of course with the ground drain solded on the copper as you show it in the video, would the effect be the same? Thx for your time, hope I explained it in an understandable manner. I live in Germany, that is why it doesn´t really fits my budget to buy everything I need from your videos, would be too expensive with the shipping costs. 😞

Do you have a wiring diagram for the relay?

In your example I see a “Mach3 mill.MXL” in the mach3 list of files, but in the fresh version of mach3 I just downloaded I do not see a file by that name. Where / how do I copy the MACH3MILL.XB5 back up file in order to import my settings to the new version of Mach3? Or did mach3 do away with this super way of importing BU copy of the system files? Thanks

Please don't mistake my comments for skepticism, the physics is quite clear. My own (home built system) "seems" not to have EMI/earthing problems which cause missed steps but I cant be sure. All systems that are used by hackers like me for a range of one-off projects don't always cut as we want. There are several causes of missed steps even something as trite as a loose motor coupling. If I could easily rule out EMI as one of the variables then I would do so. Your store has collected a good range of products, several of which i have used in my system, nor do you seem to be over-priced. But for me, several hundred dollars for cables I might not need is too much. Perhaps I was too tongue in cheek, but i would genuinely benefit from seeing some real systems before and after solved problems so as to get some sense of whether I need to spend the moolah. Happy Thanksgiving

Your points are generally well made ( if your tone could do with some fine tuning for my ears) . You obviously feel strongly about this issue. I am surprised that you don't just hook up some test equipment to one of your real world systems and end this debate and confusion once and for all.

Hi Vince Thank you for this English explanation of the NewPlasma v2 screen set. Sometimes there are people on my channel who want English explanation or subtitles, for them I will add the link to your video in the video description on my channel. Thank you again for your support, stay healthy.

Im wanting to design a remote controlled drive for my toolbox but not sure as to what type or size of motor to use. The toolbox (loaded) weighs about 400lbs. My end goal is to have the ability to easily maneuver it around the shop via ps5 or xbox wireless controller. Can you please advice and thank you.