[Swansea Hackspace] Laser Cutter - initial testing

[Ceri Clatworthy]

Just placed 2 reed switches inside cutter.....

Will look for E-Stop, later ..

Ceri

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Ceri Clatworthy <ceri.clatworthy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ....
> I might be able to 'FIND' a mushroom E-Stop :)
>
> Ceri
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Justin Mitchell <
> justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 16:19 +0100, Ceri Clatworthy wrote:
>> > I found a pair of safety magnetic reed switches,
>> > but only 500mA
>> >
>> >
>> > RS 613-8195 & RS 613-8202
>> >
>> >
>> > If you want then i will bring them in - if I am in work Friday.
>> >
>>
>> The laser tube interlock circuit, which is where we would want to
>> install it, is only going to be a logic level thing.
>>
>> currently that circuit goes just to the 'laser on/off' toggle on the
>> panel, and would be the obvious place to install such things.
>>
>> a more traditional E-Stop mushroom button could be inserted in the motor
>> control power lines if necessary, but we are less concerned about that
>> right now.
>>
>>
>>
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