4/5/2024 0 Comments Prolight 1000 cncWhat is not seen in the photo is where heat sinks were applied to the back of the G540. At the last minute a friend with a laser cutter helped me mount the G540 on a piece of Acrylic. A lot of the cables would have been at strange right angles within the enclosure. I unfortunately did not plan it out very well. Here you can see that I took an old electrical enclosure and re-purposed it. I posted the components I was planning to use in the description. The spindle speed is still set via the original manual controls, but that isn't that big of a deal. Adding an encoder on the spindle should help resolve that manual step. That machine weighs a little less than 500 lbs so I had to build a frame for it to sit on. Apologies for not posting anything after the initial project page was put up.
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