I'm going to gift myself one of the Probotix V90 mk2 CNCs. My annual Christmas gift/shop investment. I hopefully can get it with their new higher gantry sides, and beefier gantry beam. One of the reasons I want the higher gantry sides is so that I can do more 3D carving for thick furniture parts. The notoriously low Z clearance of the Probotix CNCs has meant any previous thick 3D furniture part carving was relegated to our old CNC Shark HD2.
My reason for posting this is about choosing an air cooled spindle over a router. For those of you that are using the air cooled spindle that probotix provides, what would you consider the strengths and weaknesses of them?
Was installing/configuring the spindle something you could have figured out yourself?
Does the spindle get warm/hot when running for a long period of time?
Was cabling for the spindle run through the cable chain when you bought your Probotix CNC with the spindle? How about the 220v power feed?
Does your linuxCNC install have spindle speed control that works via g-code S commands in .ngc files?
I have a feeling there are more questions I should ask. Feel free to offer up any advice/experience you may have using your spindle.
Thanks!
4D
My reason for posting this is about choosing an air cooled spindle over a router. For those of you that are using the air cooled spindle that probotix provides, what would you consider the strengths and weaknesses of them?
Was installing/configuring the spindle something you could have figured out yourself?
Does the spindle get warm/hot when running for a long period of time?
Was cabling for the spindle run through the cable chain when you bought your Probotix CNC with the spindle? How about the 220v power feed?
Does your linuxCNC install have spindle speed control that works via g-code S commands in .ngc files?
I have a feeling there are more questions I should ask. Feel free to offer up any advice/experience you may have using your spindle.
Thanks!
4D