Masso Clamp turn on vacuum holding
Anyone working with Masso Clamp. I’m thinking of tying it into a vacuum hold down system.
Haven’t done it, but my thinking is it would be better with an on / off manual switch (maybe even zoned) because of possible movements after you place the workpiece and before you initiate the system.
I look forward to any followup instructions you have
There are 4 zones.
I’m working with 2 or 3 vacuum motors that are rated for continous operation. Main switch turns on a 24 vdc power supply and turns on first motor, second motor is on a timer and in 3 seconds or so it triggers and checks the vacuum sensor and sees if we need more vacuum. Etc Etc.
By staging the motors you reduce the risk of blowing a circuit breaker as you probably would with the combined in rush.of 2 or 3 motors starting up at the same time.
The Masso MDI has a clamp on and a clamp off. I was just wondering if we could check that, The reason to leave the power supply running is it also energises 2 PC sized cooling fans (180 cfm on ball bearings not sleeves). Leaving these fans run will help reduce motor. heat.
I can only say my experience with it is related to ATC. If you don’t have an atc… you might be able to get it to work for your purposes. High for us = jaws open. Masso suggests not inverting the outputs
Output chuck clamp
Literature on m11. If you add it to your post processor in the header and footer, you should be able to have them auto activate/deactivate
Yes - I have PwnCnc ATC currently 8 tools with the 2.2 kw water cooled spinde - an ugly dog sidekick dust boot with a CanVac 3 motor dust extractor tied to the best Oneida cyclone a large drag chain.
I first went with the PwnCnc magnetic tool holders but then switched to a couple of quad tool racks from ugly dog.
I do want a software switch like the MDI screen but I don’t want to control it via gcode. I do want to send a signal back to Masso similar to the alarm coming from chiller
I have room since I added the panel inlet box.
There’s coolant flood… and you can remove m8/m9 from your post processor which is the gcode on/off.
Onefinity uses this to turn on and off the optional shopvac / dust collector.
I don’t think there’s an output that doesn’t have an gcode trigger, but removing m8/m9 is a possible action depending on your cad software (i could walk you thru vectric post processor modification)