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[Maxlaam]

Progress:


6 Sub-D cables (25 poles), motors, sensors, lights and the control panel.



The dust covers have names on them so you know what cable goes where.


Extremely ugly case fan for air intake on the right, also a switch on the top right that triggers a led strip when the doors are opened, just so you can see what you are doing as suggested by Floris2Burn


E-stop relay card, once the e-stop is pressed the power will be cut to all the motors, once you reset the e-stop button you just have to press the reset button to make it work again.


8 relays with indicator lights, used to power 8 motors.

[Jogumpie]

Might I wonder why you still have all the connectors on your power supply unit?

Oh, and you know that I really like these updates. Nice work on the sub-D's.

[floris2burn]

I think they're useful for the isolation they provide. if you just cut off all the headers, you got a lot of uninsulated cable ends flying around, is rather nasty.

[Jogumpie]

Hmm, they don't cause problems with my system. I do keep the ends away from metal, though. Especially be cautious with any non-ground wires touching the power supply casing.

[Maxlaam]

If you look at the pcb's which are installed it kinda does make sense why I haven't cut them of :-) I haven't decided on the final lay-out yet ;-)

[Maxlaam]

By popular demand, the back of the control panel:

[Britfag]

By popular demand, the back of the control panel:

Wired really nicely!
I'm impressed.

[maarten12]

Looks very clean to me.
I still don't get how these buttons work, because it seems to be they are a lot more complex to install than the simple ones I'm using on my control panel.
For example, what or those white with green number rectangular shaped things?

[Maxlaam]

Wired really nicely!
I'm impressed.

Is it that good?

Looks very clean to me.
I still don't get how these buttons work, because it seems to be they are a lot more complex to install than the simple ones I'm using on my control panel.
For example, what or those white with green number rectangular shaped things?

I thought it was quite clear from the "mini tutorial" I posted on page one and the wires coming out from them as seen here But I don't mind saying it again
Each button consists of 3 main parts, the button, an adapter and a contact element (or LED element) The button is what you press, however there are no electrical connections in/on the button part, it does however have a few plastic rods poking out on both sides from the bottom. Therefore you need an adapter, this will form the bridge to a contact element or light element.
The contact element is where you attach the wires and where the electrical connection is made or broken. When the button is pressed the plastic rods will push down the lever on the contact element, thus forming or breaking the connection between the 2 screw terminals.

[SuperTKDKid]

So the buttons function the same as a light switch basically? To turn on and off the electric flow?

[Maxlaam]

Indeed, that's what a button/switch does. Or in this case, the contact element.

[Britfag]

Is it that good?

Depends how highly you view my judgement..

But yeah, it's very good. The connectors on the wiring, and the general organisation.. looks good!

[Maxlaam]

Update time, I finished all the circuits and mounted them in the cabinet. Today I found a hour to wire up the main power lines throughout the cabinet. Next thing to do is solder about 150 wires to the SUB-D connectors. That's only one end, I still need to do the other end of the cable afterwards Also some wires inside the cabinet for the motors, the circuits are not connected togheter yet.

Video:


Sorry for the quality, I wasn't using my HD camera and halfway through the vid my memory card was full and a couple moments later my battery went almost flat. Camera work isn't the best either.

[TheRandomGuy]

It looks really good and organized! I also like the lights on the bottom left.

[Intamin Thrill Rides]

That is very impressive Max! Very organised and looks very interesting. Cant wait to see more!

[Maxlaam]

It looks really good and organized! I also like the lights on the bottom left.

Thanks, just wait till those lights are actually hooked up

That is very impressive Max! Very organised and looks very interesting. Cant wait to see more!

Stay tuned

[Maxlaam]

While shopping for parts for the rope-barrier I'm building I came across a fun little thing for Phase 3.0. I'm not sure when you will get any pictures of video from it though. Tomorrow after hitting up the gym early I was hoping to spend most of my time to actual wiring, the paint on little box that spreads the wires out over the coaster is now dry and can have it's components and wires installed. Priority tomorrow is to finish wiring the cabinet though.

[Maxlaam]

Pff, priority, it's 3 months later and I finally got around to soldering all the connectors inside the cabinet. Now I have 2 weeks to finish this, very busy year for me... I have all the parts lying around now so it's just a bunch of wires that need to be soldered onto connectors. I'll try to get the majority finished tomorrow.

I also found that I made a mistake in the Sensor and Button circuit boards. I had the +5v and ground hooked up wrong. I fixed those.

[Maxlaam]

Darn, quadruple post...

Tiny update:


These are my sensors, Jogumpie uses the same for his project, they are reed-switches with a plastic housing. I used green shrink tubing to make them look more like actual sensors. Ya know, the little green boxes on the track. There's two in the picture, one connected and one that isn't connected. They are at about the same height as the top of the rails, which makes it perfect, even when next to a booster wheel. That was my only concern really, making a sensor housing that would fit alongside a booster wheel...

[Maxlaam]

The wiring is now done, this morning I finished up the last 2 wires and installed them all.

First we have this (oh my...):


And we fit it like this:


It turned out a bit messier than I originally expected but it hooking up was a breeze, just a few tight spots...

(Just noticed, bottom middle, the 2 yellow 12V lines aren't actually hooked up to the PSU yet, fixing!!)
The only wiring still to do is for a few uplighting LED's but those will be done when everything else is working... Now I'm off to making a grafcet for the coding