Thread: My 3 axis skull...in progress

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Thanks for posting those vids, Capt! I got real good laugh at the end of the third one. I'll post vids too of that process for the Bucky fans. I have some good ideas I mean to apply from my own mech and balancing techniques...BTW, my mech used 2 311's in it and it worked fine!! That shows how a good balance can really save on servo use.

Me, I can't wait until GG gives a green light to buy the kits.

I am a visual person and work better when I see what I need. Then I don't fret about buying more locally if I decide to increase my army.

....if I decide to increase my army.....

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(from Wizard of Oz)

Do we PM you Gym Ghost if we want to get in on a purchase for a couple of the plates for the Lindberg skulls?

Here a number of pix abt the servo rod-ends, putting them together and mounting them on the servo.

A couple more..

Originally Posted by gym_ghost

Folks,
Recieved 200 1/4" poly blanks for the skull servo boards yesterday. As I got a ton of messages for the Lindberg, were going to run the whole 200 for this configuration. We should have them completed today. These servo boards are for the 425 and 625 servos, and include the cut out for the jaw servo.

Some bad news - the supplier of our blanks increased the cost by $.32. Now that may not sould like a lot, but when you times it by 200 = $64 increase. Plus we got hit with some tooling costs by our supplier - almost an 8% increase. So prices will be increasing - but again, we will sell it to you at our cost.

Funny, accounting firm we hired is tyring to explain to us about FIFO and LIFO with our inventory and general ledgers. I guess we must decided which one to go with for our accounting practices (whatever that means). I had no idea it was this hard to run a business... oh I miss the days of just tinkering out inthe garage building the props...

Joel

I still want 6 of em. Compared to the cost of screwing up and having to start over, this is cheap.

Captn:
Thanks for the info on the controller boards
I have not yet purchased the BoC and you now you have me thinking about this again.
Ok, I go with the SCC32 controller board, I assume that you are using VSA for software.
i'm e-mailing Lynxmotion now to ask them what else i need to control 4 servo's
Power supply, cables, and anything else they can think of
Thanks again

Hey Darke,

Everyone here that started this thread and built their skulls had used the Lynx SSC32. No one used the BoC, primarily because it was not out yet. If it had been out a year ago, it still wouldve been pased up as its a $200 outlay to use it. The BoC is $150, then you need a $50 DMX dongle to make it work. Thats the price of two complete skulls...

I -really- recommend reading thru this whole thread if you havent yet. It answers a lot abt the build, using VSA, power supply for the board and servos and cables to use. I know its a lot to go thru, but it sheds a lot of light on why we all use what we use.

In a nut shell.. You will need:

Lynx SSC-32 controller,
VSA from BrookshireSoftware.com
Power supply capable of running all the servos
....(figure they will all run at the same time), abt 1/2 to 3/4 amp for board & servos.
Serial cable between computer and Lynx(abt 75' max),
Cat5 cable from Lynx to skulls(abt 50-75').

I'm going to be making a vid for YouTube how to use VSA. It isnt difficult, just time-consuming..

Capt Jack

Jerry here... I'm sure if you want to purchase a volume of boc boards we can strike a deal. The end product will be safer for the servos and you'll simplify the entire project.

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