Don’t over engineer this conversion… You have everything here that you should need to hook it up to the newer Ruida…
Status probably enables the fan… Status goes low (sinks) when the machine is in run mode. Wind goes low if it’s in run mode and the executing layer has air assist enabled…
It was probably working fine with this other Chinese controller… probably works the same way…
Somewhere the optical isolator/ttl circuits needs to get 5V, usually available in many places…
If you are going to remove it… use an solid state device.
I haven’t used mechanical relays for a couple of decades… replaced so many I don’t want to see another one… You can do a better job with a solid state relay (ssr). No mechanical contacts, switches only a zero voltage… much better for equipment…
ok guys thanks for everyone’s help. got a lot of wiring to neaten up but it’s on and moving and connecting to lightburn. had to change the steps so it would move the entire bed. worried i’m missing some settings. i will attach pictures of my old controller settings. if you guys see anything that jumps out to change let me know. the height adjust is moving backwards i noticed
morning everyone. so two questions. one my z table is moving backwards when i tough the key and when i go to autofocus. also any idea where the chinese lasers get 5v for the red dot lasers. i have new tube coming with aiming dot that needs 5v and want to put a switch between the two?
I sure looked at them… If I remember correctly, I wanted a 40W tube, not something that was >60W and these didn’t appear on the lower wattage tube… It’s been so long (> 1nS) I don’t remember…
True, but that doesn’t ensure a good configuration, because the homing direction and the keypad direction need not match. In addition, that will produce a machine with one motor different than the others, which inevitably leads to heartache and confusion later on.
If the axis currently homes correctly (which seems to be the case), reversing the motor leads is mmmm a step in the wrong direction.
