Elite Upgrade Kit Ordered (discussion)

[Aiph5u (Aiph5u (not affiliated with Onefinity))]

Hey all,

@anon93936469

Anyone who thinks the pricing of the upgrade is high or off hasn’t looked at what the stuff costs retail elsewhere. US distributors for Masso want $1700 plus shipping just for the Masso G3 touch controller.

Ordering directly from Masso, the controller alone is going to cost you over $1400.

Exactly, what you get then is just a bare Masso G3 Touch! What you still don’t have then, is what Onefinity produces and provides with it:

1. a power supply,

2. a relay control box for switching router and vac on and off,

3. a plug-and-play spindle/VFD control output like Onefinity’s 6-pin GX-12 connector (currently matches only @PwnCNC’s spindle enclosure)!

So

@Aiph5u

If you bought a Onefinity Original X-35/X-50 Series machine with buildbotics-derived Onefinity controller, you can later buy the Onefinity Elite Upgrade kit which is also an excellent offer.

On the other hand, if you ever thought of buying a Masso G3 Touch directly at the Masso shop,

• MASSO G3 Touch – CNC Mill / Router 5 Axis Controller
  US $1,290.00

but then this is a bare one! It lacks…

1. a power supply,

2. a relay control box for switching router and vac on and off,

3. a plug-and-play spindle/VFD control output like Onefinity’s 6-pin GX-12 connector (currently matches only @PwnCNC’s spindle enclosure):

@Aiph5u

Onefinity Elite Series Installation and Operation Instructions (PDF) , page 38

For wiring other VFDs to this connector, see here.

If you get the Masso G3 Touch as part of an Onefinity Elite Series machine, not only you get it to a favorable price, but it has all these accessories included!

However should you want to upgrade to a Masso G3 Touch without the Elite Upgrade kit, but by doing that yourself by just buying the Masso G3 Touch at the Masso shop, then…

@Aiph5u

…you can buy the Masso G3 Touch (US $1,290.00 without power supply), build a custom power supply and relay box for the Masso G3 Touch and for your machine, and as it is a universal CNC controller, you could make it fit your existing Onefinity Original X-35/X-50 Series machine. You could still use your existing open-loop steppers, however as you would no more benefit of the four Texas Instruments DRV8711 stepper drivers inside the Onefinity Original X-35/X-50 Series Controller, so you would need to buy four external stepper drivers separately (see also explanations here). You could also buy some closed-loop, stepper motors like the Stepper motors that are used on the Elite Series, here you can choose among easily available Stepper Motors with Integrated Stepper Drivers (the little black box on each of the stepper motors), and by the way also choose whether with or without brake.

You could in every case easily Retrofit Hardware Limit Sensors to the Onefinity Standard X-35/X-50 Series which I would recommend anyway, to get rid of unreliable Stall Homing (=machine bumps the axis carriage to the end of travel until the stepper driver detects it = poor homing repeatability)

@Aiph5u

Image: Onefinity Elite’s Power Supply and Relay Box
(Left: Version for North and Latin America. Right: Version for the rest of the world)