Adventures in the never ending process of CNC machine improvements and upgrades.
The case I used for the FluidNC CNC Controller based upgrade for my CNC Router. See the BOM for details. CAD for the case panels and other project files are located on the company github. All the panels are power coated steel, not aluminum. The white colored frame on the front and back is plastic….
What started out as a simple temperature and voltage monitoring device for my new CNC controller case ended up way more complex.
I discovered that the factory Genmitsu controller runs GRBL 1.1 that is only able to support 3 axes and isn’t upgradable to any other controller firmware.
Wait, what??? The Genmitsu 4040 Pro Max GRBL 1.1 controller doesn’t support a 4th axis?!? How can that be? SainSmart sold it to me clearly stating it’s for the 4040 Pro Max. Well turns out that one must do a lot of special tricks to use the rotary table. Yes, GRBL 1.1 only supports 3…
A few weeks after ordering and not seeing the status on the SainSmart web site change to shipped, I sent an email to check on it. And that’s when the black hole of never ending time and money sucking began.
