Light Machines Corp SpectraLight Lathe and Mill To Restore! These are just Sherline Machines in a Nice Cabinet.
Factory Light Machines Spectralight Controller. (I sold this Controller No Further Development)
Spectralight Light Machines Full Controller Pin-Outs Wire Them Accordingly to Your LPT port and software configure configuration. You Must have a older LPT Card with a strong 5V a card with 3.3V will not work.
22 Enable
6 X Dir
21 X Step
18 Y Dir
20 Y Step
5 Z Dir
19 Z Step
17 Enable
4 Spindle On
23 E-Stop (Requires 10uf capacitor in Parallel to Ground)
13 Home (Inverted)
24 Limit (Inverted)
1 Accessory (inverted)
11 Cover
2 Chuck
7 Ground
Lathe Motor is A Baldor Mill Motor is Unknown!!!
Lathe Spindle, Quadrature Encoder, (Looks like a US Digital E2 Encoder) & Minarik Motor Controller
Encoder Controller??? Not sure must have a use in the Factory Light Machines Controller.
New Sur-Step 166oz Nema23 Stepper Motors Being Installed on the Milling Machine. Cleaning Up Well! Moving to a 286in oz on the z axis since I have one available now.
One of the Stepper Drive’s Sumtor Elec MB450A Arrived. Here is the Chenglish MB450A Manual
Upon Opening it looks like a Leadshine M542 Clone Even Says M542 V2.0 on the PCB.
Seems Well Constructed We Will See How Long They Last at 48V They are Rated for 50v!
12V 10A Walmart Special PSU. Prob only going to use a small 12V 1a to save space.
10/06/2015 48V PSU…. Arrived Along With 2 More MB450A Drivers
The MB450A Drives.
Updates Soon. ETA for Movement is 20th of December ish! I am busy with other things right now so project is delayed!
Was able to get some work done on the lightmachines LCNC “PathPilot” controller. We have movement.
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Last Updated on March 10, 2021 by Steven Rhine