{"id":14,"date":"2020-01-05T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T13:49:00","slug":"wiring-diagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/2020\/01\/wiring-diagram.html","title":{"rendered":"Wiring Diagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another area I have been working on is the wiring diagram for the laser cutter.<\/p>\n<p>This I have been drawing up in <a href=\"https:\/\/products.office.com\/en-gb\/visio\/flowchart-software\">Microsoft Visio<\/a>. Since I have a Mac, and there is no version of Visio for Mac, I make use of a Windows 10 virtual machine that I run under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\">VirtualBox<\/a>. I obtained genuine license keys for Windows 10 and also for Visio via auctions on eBay, paying \u00a31.47 for the Windows 10 license and \u00a32.99 for Visio. I also make use of this Windows 10 host for any other products that will only run under Windows such as LaserCad and our Archery club&#8217;s record keeping software.<\/p>\n<p>This is the main wiring diagram.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.00.02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-122 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.00.02-300x230.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.00.02-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.00.02-768x589.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.00.02.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The incoming power first goes through the Emergency Stop switch and then through a three position progressive switch to L1 (24V PSU) and L2 (Laser PSU).<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.28.57.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-123 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.28.57-300x152.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.28.57-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.28.57-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.28.57.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The 5V power is provided via a DC-DC Buck converter stepping down the 24V to 5V.<\/p>\n<p>The Arduino and all associated connections are either powered via 5V from the buck converter, or 24V via relays from the 24V PSU.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.35.22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-124 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.35.22-300x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.35.22-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.35.22-768x521.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.35.22.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The stepper motors are controlled via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pololu.com\/product\/1182\">A4988<\/a> stepper drivers on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.protoneer.co.nz\/arduino-cnc-shield-v3-00-assembly-guide\/\">Protoneer<\/a> CNC shield which in turn are driven from the AWC807C Lite DSP controller<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.36.35.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-125 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.36.35-206x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.36.35-206x300.png 206w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2B2020-01-05-2Bat-2B13.36.35.png 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another area I have been working on is the wiring diagram for the laser cutter. This I have been drawing up in Microsoft Visio. Since I have a Mac, and there is no version of Visio for Mac, I make use of a Windows 10 virtual machine that I run under VirtualBox. I obtained genuine&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}