Dan,
? I echo Joe's comment excellent writeup.? Making one of these is outside my comfort zone but well within my son's zone as he's a EE major at Louisiana Tech.? What would you say the cost is to build one of these?
Thanks,
Dave
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Dan,
This is a great write up!? Thanks for sharing.
John Ferandin and I have been talking about a similar system for awhile but using a PLC rather than an Arduino.
I really like your pigtail device for testing current.? I have most of my shop set up with 30 amp three phase plugs and it would be easy to make a pigtail for testing current most of my machines.
Joe in New Orleans
I just posted a file describing a new device which controls a dust collector and blast gate when machine is turned on/off. ?
This past spring I purchased a Felder KF700S sliding table saw and shaper combo.? I also installed Nordfab ducting to the machine which included an automatic blast gate at ceiling height.? My dust collector is an Oneida Smart Pro 5HP unit with an RF remote.? In my small one person shop, the dust collector does not run continuously ¨C only when machines are producing chips.
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I wanted the dust collector to turn on automatically whenever I turned on the saw.? The blast gate must open at the same time.? When I turned the saw off, the collector would run for a programmable number of seconds before turning off and then closing the blast gate.? I wanted the dust collector to turn on via RF as I did not want to run wiring or disable my current RF remotes.
Check out the unit in operation at??
Dan Schmidt
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