I found it in the stepper motor docs on the store page. For reference I also have the lead 1010. I've seen one of your guys in the tutorials wire machines backwards from the lead 1010 I have. Any reason to that?

 

FYI, ive successfully added plasma cutter torch height control (THC) to the blackbox control system. It is possible to do, but it does require some soldering and modification. If anyone want to know what it entails, let me know and ill post a blurb and some information about it. Don't want to bore anyone without cause

 

Hello , i made different build using THC but never with the blackbox.
I'm really interested to know how you did it.
Regards
Michael

 

Yes lets see it, I tried a while back, but I couldn't get the height control working.

 

Do the controller circuits provide partial current after stopping to lock motors? but what is the current lock setting?
For example with your own CNC belt design
When changing the cutter, to block the motors, so as not to lose the step

 

Yes, set $1=255, see gnea/grbl

Alex.

 

Is it possible to drive two sets of dual motors with the Blackbox? I’m looking at a fixed gantry with 1 motor for Y, 2 motors for Z and 2 motors for X.

 

Is it just as simple as installing two sets of wires into the connector?

 

I just got a black box
I have nema 23 2.8A model 23HS5628 motors
Is the black box correctly positioned on the potentiometers?

 

Thank you very much for the clarification
It's all clear already
greetings

 

I think I found it. Is the easter egg still active for the BB and who do I contact if it is.
John

 

Hi!
I would like to add a security button in order to pause or stope the machine fastly. I think I can use the blackbox door port. Is it true? How to wire the button?

Thanks

 

That E-Stop switch locks when you hit it and you have to turn the knob to release the lock. It shouldn't be used as Pause/Resume switch.

 

My own opinion on these is that unless you attach them to the 220 line coming in they are worthless, they are an emergency stop button not a pause button, they are designed to kill 220 volts or 110 volts and nothing more, lately it seems to be trendy that the cnc builders are putting these on the machines but they do not cut the main electricity.

I believe on the black box there is a door circuit pause button that allows you to use a switch on that which will pause the machine, you will need to check but please dont use this switch, get one with a different colour and label on it, if you want a proper ES get one to cut off all the poles that come into the high voltage CNC so if its 2 phase then DPDT if its three phase then TPTT and make sure you wire it up properly on the HV circuit where it should go to kill all power to the machine and not the low voltage black box.

 

@Peter Van Der Walt Continuing the conversation off my handwheel project, can you pass this along to the team that will be working on the blackbox revisions in the future?

When the brains board gets a update up the road to 32 bit, which will likely happen someday. They should plan to update the muscle board with diodes that prevent back EMF from flowing to the stepper drivers just in case somebody moves their axis by hand while a motor is attached. Much more likely to happen on a belt driven machine than a lead screw machine.

 

LOL, then the sub-1 inch I move the axis by hand(wheel) if we have a TVS circuit. Gotta tune the machine without unplugging the motors everytime.

 

Bad practice? That must be why every other stepper driver board out there has protection diodes on it. You can't fix stupid, but you can plan for it.

MG

 

Can this be controller via matlab? I need to use it along with some other automated scripts