J. Elliott
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- May 18, 2002
- Location
- Boonville, NC 27011
Everyone,
Well, I've finally gone and chosen the guts to my home CNC mill. By accident, naturally, with a li'l help from eBay.
Strangely, a local guy had a Parker Compumotor 4-axis, AT6400 indexing controller card w/software up for $475. Ouch, but a far cry from the $2600 in the Parker Webstore. I spent a half-hour grilling the Parker tech, and he seems sure that whatever I might throw at this controller, it'll take it. It sure looks a lot more robust than the StepperWorld SP/3HT kit I have in the backroom. (Anyone care for a good price on an SP3/HT kit, never even fully removed from the box?) I think I stumbled across a good chance to upgrade to some pro-level equipment tonight.
15 minutes after I snagged the card on a 'Buy it Now' feature I was high bidder on a Parker Zeta4 drive and two Parker NEMA 23 motors too. Must be my night.... Now, onto the hard part. What the hell have I just bought? Anyone ever used this stuff?
I sold a neat old BMW motorcycle two weeks ago to raise $$$ for all those goodies coming out of the Bridgeport auction last month. I've asembled an awesome set of Rexroth-Star roller bearing rails for the movements, new NSK ballscrews, and now this on the computer end. Surely, all these parts are stout enough to not be a waste of time building the beast. I'm not looking for speed, just capability and sufficient accuracy.
So - any thoughts on Compumotor parts out here in cyberspace? Have any of you ever programmed in the Parker 6000 series language? Seems I'm in for learning some real programming here, as well.
Well, I've finally gone and chosen the guts to my home CNC mill. By accident, naturally, with a li'l help from eBay.
Strangely, a local guy had a Parker Compumotor 4-axis, AT6400 indexing controller card w/software up for $475. Ouch, but a far cry from the $2600 in the Parker Webstore. I spent a half-hour grilling the Parker tech, and he seems sure that whatever I might throw at this controller, it'll take it. It sure looks a lot more robust than the StepperWorld SP/3HT kit I have in the backroom. (Anyone care for a good price on an SP3/HT kit, never even fully removed from the box?) I think I stumbled across a good chance to upgrade to some pro-level equipment tonight.
15 minutes after I snagged the card on a 'Buy it Now' feature I was high bidder on a Parker Zeta4 drive and two Parker NEMA 23 motors too. Must be my night.... Now, onto the hard part. What the hell have I just bought? Anyone ever used this stuff?
I sold a neat old BMW motorcycle two weeks ago to raise $$$ for all those goodies coming out of the Bridgeport auction last month. I've asembled an awesome set of Rexroth-Star roller bearing rails for the movements, new NSK ballscrews, and now this on the computer end. Surely, all these parts are stout enough to not be a waste of time building the beast. I'm not looking for speed, just capability and sufficient accuracy.
So - any thoughts on Compumotor parts out here in cyberspace? Have any of you ever programmed in the Parker 6000 series language? Seems I'm in for learning some real programming here, as well.