Hey guys it’s Ryan from rocky mountain. Thanks for checking it out. Price wises it’s set at 3400 due to 1700 in parts then we just doubled it. It’s been our price structure for 3 years now. Seems to keep us in business on the bottling side. As far as parts, yes we mostly use open builds lots of companies are switching to them…it’s the best out there. We even use them on our custom fiber lasers where the kerf is around .0005".
As far as controls that’s what your paying for. It’s mostly automation direct, digikey, McMaster. We don’t go cheap on stepper drives or power components. That just makes issues we don’t want to deal with as then your fixing stuff or waiting for cool downs.
However y’all are right we do use a mega, teensy and two pis to run the software it’s a software we built around 7 years ago it’s the only patented part on this build. It’s alot of small boards but we have other machines that need the processing power. It’s been the work horse in our machines for years now. The only time we don’t use it is if a customer request every control to be ul listed then we use automation direct plcs.
So if you do want to build one I would recommend open builds parts for sure the design works great and simple. Parts are cheap and easy to replace. Ran another 10k cycles today on two syringes to test the design.
For the price your mostly paying for everything in the cabinet.
How ever this is the final version. …https://www.instagram.com/reel/CMUuUUijVLf/?igshid=qlhkd6jn45v6
It can use all cart farms tech for heating and syringes. Why remake something that works right.
All we have left to test on this build is heating if you don’t use cart farms setup. However we recommend cart farms as it’s already proven.
Our heating setup will be an option as alot of our customers will fill cold water/chemical based products. Or a customer that want the readouts mounted to the cabinet. We will use automation directs controller it’s 34.00 @ cost x4 some wire extension, heat shrink, bulk head fittings into a cabinet and the heat pad and to top the cake ul listed breakers for each pad. It will be cheaper using cart farms heat for sure.
Thanks for checking it out!