Hia is there any knowhow/experience/practice regarding an “Inverted” installation on a vertical frame, i.e. the sled+controller+Dewalt have been rotated 180 degrees around the z axis, so that:
Power cables & vacuum hose will go upwards instead of down
(towards & held by a movable arm installed on the top side of the frame)
Avoid the situation whereby the M4 is near TL corner & moving towards it, and the lower side of the sled is lifted off the work surface
(due to the pull of the TL belt - which has the highest Z position on the sled, so more ‘rotation leverage’ vs the other belts)
Specifically:
If the M4 was previously calibrated before such an ‘inverted’/rotated installation, does it need recalibration?
…Or can I just switch the position values between TL&BR and TR&BL anchors?
Anything else needs to be changed, in the FluidNC panel?
The way that the machine expects gravity to be pulling is pretty integral to how it works, so I would expect some strange and probably undesirable behavior.
What’s the advantage of using it in a rotated way like that? There might be an easier way to get the same results (for example if you want the dust collection to come from the top, you can just install the sled upside down and leave everything else in the same orientation).
I did this initially when I went to a vertical frame, belts unwound until they were winding backwards, not good. Power has to be pointed down, you can reverse orientation so long as this stays pointing down.
Hia is there any knowhow/experience/practice regarding an “Inverted”
installation on a vertical frame,
This will not work well, in vertical mode, the maslow assumes that the ‘top’
belts always are under tension and the ‘bottom’ belts are not.
if you flip it, when it goes to extend the ‘bottom’ belts (now on top), the
belts will extend under the gravity tension and lower the sled to the floor.