But that can be fixed. Bought one of these power plug energy monitor things a few days ago. Didn't think to use it on the Kress, but will fix that tomorrow.

Good thinking btw.

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Hi Arjan,
Let's see if we can get your electronics in a better place. I made a note to the Shapeoko team on your other concerns listed below and will follow up with Jess to get you that V wheel.
I'll pack up a 2.3 version of the board this afternoon which has fixed the disconnect issue 95% of the time (one customer told me something broke and we're not sure if it's the board so I can't claim 100% success rate).
Twisting motor wires: you can twist them all together, but if you're open to poking the crimp connectors out, you can twist the green/black and red/blue pair together.
3D printer mount for your makita: leave it for now, but if the router only has a 2 prong connector then grounding the body/frame will help. This can be done later if the disconnects continue.
The new board has an exposed ground pad around the screw hole in the bottom/right corner (if you're reading the silkscreen right side up). Use a metal washer for that screw and that will ground the whole machine to the frame, which will mitigate ESD spikes.
Jorge
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No-load power consumption is going to be much lower than the maximum rated power. That's perfectly normal -- it means that 180 W are lost to heat and noise and pushing air around to cool the spindle, and the rest* up to the rated power is available if you actually cut anything.AnonymousPerson wrote:So, running the Kress at its slowest speed (~5000rpm) while cutting some MDF (0.5mm per pass), is only drawing ~34 watts.
Cranked it up to the maximum speed briefly, and it was drawing closer to 180W.
So, not really sure what to make of those figures. They're vastly different than the published specs.
Any recommendations? I tried GWizard for a while, but was unimpressed (Adobe Air based, extremely bad UI, buggy).cvoinescu wrote:Try a feeds-and-speeds calculator: the better ones give you not only the cutting force, but also the the power required from the spindle for a given set of cut parameters.