This is a portion of my CNC motion control board assembly documentation.

CNC Controller Motion Board PCB Soldering (Rev. D)

This is where I do some miscellaneous tasks:

This picture shows all the stuff I used to attach the stepper motors to DIN5 connectors. The DIN5 connectors come off of a male to male DIN5 cable, since I can not seem to find DIN5 male connectors stand alone in a catalog. The volt/ohm meter is used to figure out how to which pin of the DIN5 connector goes to which color of the cable.
This picture shows three of the DIN5 connectors snipped of the cables, wires sticking out, stripped and twisted.
This shows what the cable looks like after it has been attached to a stepper motor. I skipped the step where I show each connection being made and converted with heat shrink tubing. The final mess is coverted with an even bigger piece of heat shring tubing.
I just table some paper so that it folds over the edge of the chasis. This is to help place the estop (Emergency Stop) switch.
Next, I hold the switch on the back side and carefully trace the perimeter of the switch. (Yup, that's my hairy arm!)
Afterwards the estop switch is traced. Now the paper is flipped out, and I trace the perimeter over to the other side.
Finally, I drill the hole for the Estop switch.
The hole for the green power LED is drilled next. It just needs to fit under the PCB board.
THe hole for the red fault LED is drilled next.
The Estop switch, power LED, and fault LED are installed in position. When I took this picture, the LED holder for the fault LED was not available. (I forgot to order to of them.)

That takes care of most of the installation. From here on out, the next task is to debug the firmware.

	This picture shows all the stuff I used to attach the stepper motors to DIN5 connectors. The DIN5 connectors come off of a male to male DIN5 cable, since I can not seem to find DIN5 male connectors stand alone in a catalog. The volt/ohm meter is used to figure out how to which pin of the DIN5 connector goes to which color of the cable.
	This picture shows three of the DIN5 connectors snipped of the cables, wires sticking out, stripped and twisted.
	This shows what the cable looks like after it has been attached to a stepper motor. I skipped the step where I show each connection being made and converted with heat shrink tubing. The final mess is coverted with an even bigger piece of heat shring tubing.
	I just table some paper so that it folds over the edge of the chasis. This is to help place the estop (Emergency Stop) switch.
	Next, I hold the switch on the back side and carefully trace the perimeter of the switch. (Yup, that's my hairy arm!)
	Afterwards the estop switch is traced. Now the paper is flipped out, and I trace the perimeter over to the other side.
	Finally, I drill the hole for the Estop switch.
	The hole for the green power LED is drilled next. It just needs to fit under the PCB board.
	THe hole for the red fault LED is drilled next.
	The Estop switch, power LED, and fault LED are installed in position. When I took this picture, the LED holder for the fault LED was not available. (I forgot to order to of them.)