CNC Shark Forum

mcsteve wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 11, 2021 10:06 pm

@monitoringpost, I did search the forum ...
Steve

Okay!

mcsteve wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 10, 2021 9:30 pm

Has anyone added a laser to their Shark, other than the one sold by Next Wave?

Steve

Have you tried searching the forum?

sharkcutup wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:44 am

I have gotten my machine tuned (Feed/Speeds) for carving softwoods and hardwoods. ... Other than that I have had no real problems with the machine. I have carved many projects ...
Sharkcutup

Me too Sharkcutup! Sorry, but I'll pass Rando on your Big Mouth project.

The only thing I've encountered is problems if I start running gcode when I'm not at (0,0,0). It's probably because of relative moves in g-code, rather than absolute. That's perhaps the reason Kayvon. My post command is for Absolute Mode and it pretty much dead on. I know when I was a beta tester f...

mdcavanaugh wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:13 pm

Tim,

What about cooling? Box gets warm!

Mike

Tim Owens wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:05 pm

as long as the box is still warm to the touch you should be fine.

Just saying... from the horses mouth!

Your post implies I would need to look at getting fan in the controller box? Bill, You said you've run the job a few times before without issue. I seriously doubt heat is an issue - I'd suspect perhaps a brownout or something else gremlin like. My thoughts would be to simply monitor it going forwar...

I'm familiar with the options for powering and fan choices - just thought Rando you'd have a picture to share! I think I'll pass - can't see how it would help much and likely would just suck in sawdust and the like to for sure than over heat components. Mine has never got hot enough that I couldn't ...

Rando wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 24, 2020 2:34 pm

That's why I opened the case of my controller and added a FAN to it. Now I don't have any stepper driver heat issues.

Care to share a photo? If you didn't tap into the relay for power what did you use?

Definitely on my list of projects to complete. Thanks Rick!

When you go to load a file into the Shark Controller simply click the down arrow for file types and it lists them. Have you tried that?