Retrofit of Precix 5x10 CNC

I am sorry I missed this, I swear I have subscribed to this thread and hoped to get notifications but I don't.

If you still need them I will send whatever I have when I get to my shop tomorrow. I remember poking around that big plug finding them.

randypetersen wrote: I am sorry I missed this, I swear I have subscribed to this thread and hoped to get notifications but I don't.

If you still need them I will send whatever I have when I get to my shop tomorrow. I remember

I dont need them now. I got most of the pinouts from Precix themselves.
I do have one question, there is a pair of wires coming out of the control box motor connector for the Z axis. I assume that is the brake for the Z motor. You have the polarity handy? It is just two grey wires. I ask because I am not near the machine and I am rebuilding the control remotely and will send it to him. I have all the pionouts of the other connectors.

also, is your configs online for your machine? What are the mechanics? rack and pinion?

RandyPeterson,

What did you do for the copely drives? Did your redo the connectors or solder, cowboy splice them?

not sure if this helps, but right or wrong, I put wire on the black side to the negative and the wire on the red side to the output pin on the 7i77 card... it's working...

No idea... it's kinda like this: www.precix.com/CNC_signmaker_10500.htm but I am guessing it's been modified with better spindle and some other things. It's got a belt which I planned on switching to rack&pinion, but haven't messed with it. Belts have been working ok actually. As far as I know...

Ya, I guess cowboy/splice them? Took the existing wires, and then soldered on my own wires to connect to the mesa card and other components. I am meaning to redo it, I kinda left it as it for testing, but since it's been working I haven't redone it yet. I bought a nice controller box but haven't done it yet.

The original control only has three drives and connections for three motors. I know thi is a gantry router.
Do you only have three motors also? Must be some kind of belt that drives both sides?

Yes, you are correct, there is a shaft that goes through the Y axis gantry and drives the other sprocket/belt. The X axis motor (the one I just replaced) couples to that shaft, and that shaft has gear to another belt/gear on both sides to long belt/gear.

Yep, 3 servo motors on mine with columbo spindle.

The new magmotor I just added had a different shaft size, so I changed the coupler to a reducing coupler. Seems decent. 

Please when they put your new controller in place and tune it to share the PID values. I am having an issue getting things behaving properly. It'd be nice to see some value of similar machines. Thanks.