Homebrew PCBs

Hi Bill, I have nothing except the plotter and even that is missing the 
power supply. Is there any chance of a copy of what you have scanned it 
would be most useful and I would at least have an idea what the switches do. 
Its all black magic at the moment!
Many thanks,
Don....
 vk3yv@...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Maxwell" <wrmaxwell@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Plotter Information


>I cant help with the DXY-800 specifically, Don but I have recently
> scanned the Operations manual for its multi-pen brother, the DXY-880, if
> that helps.
>
> Bill, VK7MX
>
> On 6/02/2011 11:54 AM, VK3YV wrote:
>> Hi , I am again looking for information on a DXY 800. I have one with 
>> both
>> serial and parallel but no information regarding drivers and any other 
>> info
>> that is relative to it, "any luck". If all else fails  I may rebuild it
>> using a 5 axis driver board I am waiting on. The only problem I have is 
>> it
>> is a MACH 3 CNC activated thing and I don't know If I can plot with it. I
>> have a HP pen holder and solenoid to replace the Roland one. One of the 
>> uses
>> will be for board layouts using the plotter frame and use the electronics 
>> in
>> a better frame and steppers to engrave panels.
>> Many thanks,
>> Don....
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "designer_craig"<cs6061@...>
>> To:<Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 6:25 AM
>> Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Plotter Information
>>
>>
>>> PC stock would not work in a larger HP plotter, you have a grit roller 
>>> and
>>> a rubber pinch roller.  It depends on the grit pattern digging into the
>>> paper. Alos the paper bed is curved.  You also need a roller set at the
>>> other side of the paper or it will not run straight.
>>>
>>> Best bet is to find a smaller 11 x17 flat bed HP pen plotter. They had 
>>> an
>>> electrostatic system for holding the paper down and a gantry pen holder
>>> system.
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Mark Lerman<mlerman@...>  wrote:
>>>> Yes, I had heard about the indentation. I assume the indents are on
>>>> the bottom so that I could mount the pcb on paper or cardboard?? Can
>>>> a pcb fit mechanically without modification?
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>> At 04:19 PM 2/4/2011, you wrote:
>>>>> Note:
>>>>> The pen moves in the X plane and the PAPER moves in the Y plane.  A 
>>>>> PCB
>>>>> is
>>>>> rigid so you would need to attached to the equivalent of a paper
>>>>> carrier.
>>>>>
>>>>> The plotter technology is clever with the grit wheels actually 
>>>>> indenting
>>>>> the
>>>>> paper on the first pass so the paper on future passes back and forth
>>>>> track
>>>>> the previous indented markings.
>>>>>
>>>>> A long time ago I played around with this idea but I was using a fiber
>>>>> optic
>>>>> cable to keep the laser stationary and the weight down for the pen
>>>>> assembly.
>>>>> Today lasers are much smaller.
>>>>> Bertho
>>>>> ==============================
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Mark Lerman   Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 15:38
>>>>> At 03:25 PM 2/4/2011, you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> --- On Fri, 4/2/11, Mark Lerman<mlerman@...>  wrote:
>>>>>>> From: Mark Lerman<mlerman@...>
>>>>> homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
>>>>>>> Date: Friday, 4 February, 2011, 18:52
>>>>>>> work. Questions:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1 - How good is a plotter's resolution?
>>>>>> Just a quick answer: the basic resolution of HPGL, the
>>>>>> HP plotter language that nearly all plotters use, is
>>>>>> 40 steps per mm. So, if you add 40 to a co-ordinate,
>>>>>> the pen moves by 1mm. Now, I don't know if this is
>>>>>> the mechanical resolution of the plotter, but it sets
>>>>>> an upper limit to resolution, at least.
>>>>> Thanks - that would be .001 inch (1 mil) per step, more than adequate!
>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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