Very nice setup Bob. Hopefully someday I get my Pro 5x5 ordered . If it’s effected by tariffs next year, I guess I’ll never own one

 

Let's hope this tariff mess gets resolved!

 

Nice setup, Bob. Are you using one computer for both Mach and your design software? It's hard to tell if that's two computers below the CNC or a UPS and a computer.

David

 

The unit on the left is a UPS.

 

Rick,
My cnc is for personal hobby use, so it likely has a less hours than some of the crp machines. To this point I've had 0 problems with mine. I've had 2 problems that were software related and of my own making. A call to CRP had them corrected within a matter of minutes. They have great technical support.

I have a wireless camera mounted above my machine so I can leave the basement occasionally. It gets very boring watching that spindle move back and forth if you don't have any other projects in the shop. I recently ran 2 projects that both had 4 tool changes and ran for 6 hours each with no problems.

Bob

 

Bob, I know you have this system in your basement and have air-conditioning how are you dealing with the dust generated when you run the CNC? Is the air conditioning separate from the house AC?

Nice looking setup by the way.

 

That was what I was thinking up to your post, it all looks a very neat set up but how will you keep all the dust out? You need to deal with that and put the PC's into a dust free air filtered box. nice looking CNC and I would like to play with one but I have no time. N

 

Bob, too bad one of those packing crates didnt have a 75" tv

here's what it'd look like if it did:

... Recently, while digging thru some packing crates, I found a spare monitor.

 

That would be great for an old man who wears progressive lens glasses!

 

Me thinks I go check packing crates... dang, what a find!

 

I also forgot to mention I have Jet air filtration unit in my shop.

 

I do photo retouching and have had 3 monitors on the PC. It's great to have the work being done on the center monitor, a second copy on the right monitor showing the "Before" image, and my tools menus on the left screen. The Windows operating system makes it easy to drag files from one monitor to another very easily, so anything can be anywhere. I don't have a CNC, but if the operating system is Windows, doing this should be very easy. Anything can be on any monitor that you want.

Charley.

 

I've never used more than one monitor with a PC. I perceive two or more monitors would be dueling for my attention, and as my brain sucks at multitasking one of the dual monitors would always be unused and thus unneeded. At work I have an extra-wide monitor that came with my office PC. It has room for two critical apps on the screen fully open at the same time. Even so, the reality of what I do with a PC has rarely taken advantage of that feature.

I often have more than one program running though. It is easier to keep any I'm not currently using minimized but easily accessed than having them all open on the screen at the same time. As I said before, I don't multitask. I will let the PC do that whenever it doesn't need my attention for more than one task.

4D

 

I will often mirror my CNC control control computer display to the shop TV to make it easier to see from the CNC.

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I have a mirrored monitor in the shop above my CNC because the laptop is in a cabinet on another wall and usually can't see the laptop.

 

4D I thought you would be a 4 monitor man.

A lot of people will use 2 monitors with a tutorial running on one and actual hands-on learning on the other.

 

I have 3 monitors on my desk in the office plus the dedicated one on the CNC. This way I have stock quotes, a chat room, and one to work on. I got the plug for a 4th, but no room........ yet.

 

I do have 4 monitors. One in front of me as I work in my bedroom office. One out in the garage next to my CNC Shark, Two in the basement with one running the Meteor, and another in the closet of that room that runs Aspire so I can change the g-code quickly if I need to.

My college students often are using 2 monitors at the same time though. One to run a video so they can catch up with their favorite netflix/hula/amazon prime/whatever shows and the other with their school work on it.

4D

 

I have been using 2 monitors at work for nearly 10 years now, and it drives me nuts to work with only one screen now. This is especially true when I am working in window, but have another window where I am referencing something that is related to what I am working. I rarely use them for two separate tasks.