This is all about the Arburg Allrounder 300 plastic injection molding machine. I plan on posting everything I learn and welcome other owners to contribute.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Controller Design

I have thought a lot about my controller problems in the last few days and I am now dead set on replacing the control. I just don't see any point in trying to get it working with replacement parts being impossible to find. So, I just need to choose from one of the choices I laid out in the last post. I dropped an email to Rick Fitzpatrik from the MYOS project to see if he had any direction for me. He encouraged me to use the Arduino micro controller. I began writing a simple program for the Arduino and ordered a "relay board" that can control the solenoids but completely isolate the arduino board. I also read on wikipedia on how to wire a solenoid.

It is going to be a while for the parts to get here so I probably wont have much to say for a few weeks.


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