Tune and rebuild 3 conveyor system (Hopper, Accumulator and Scanning)

[pkrush]

Make the hopper bin plate Finish all the guides.

Accumulator Conveyor: Sand acrylic top plate and shorten the belt

Test it for 15 minutes by hand and an hour with the cube hopper Dirty the belts Get average speeds

Make mount for top scanning camera Set up for the backlight camera: Make base for the LED strip, or just widen connector plate? Put LED strip under all the conveyors. Make a mount for the backlight camera Mount a few solenoids

Make a Base, 300x500mm sits on a large clear container One of the boxes & base will have a hole along with the base for the coins to drop into the copper bin.

Try to take pictures at 72mm a second.

Later Re-Build another full 3 conveyor system: There needs to be a way to route and mount wires. Contain/mount the wires and electronics. Make the rest of the 4x4x4-ish boxes Make 2mm shaft holes smaller Guides with slots to adjust for coin size. Something went wrong with the top plate alignment and it was mirrored wrong when cut.

Scanner Side Rails: Change for 4mm shaft. Lower the motor.

After 2nd build: .15mm thick belting would be better! Order .15 thick clear and satin 40mm? 30mm? A clear join would be better!

End plates are off center slightly. Move it more off center, or center it. The lighting and the camera can be a module: That pulls out. Or just added on the bottom! Put a 1mm shoulder on the top plate by the motor. Include the motor rail in the connector plate between the hopper and Accumulator. So this would be 130mm-ish wide. Big hopper end plate Tab it. Move the screws to the corners Make it symmetrical

Try making a bill of bill of materials

[pkrush]

All Done: Finish all the guides. Accumulator Conveyor: Sand acrylic top plate and shorten the belt (Works better sanded, as it does not stick) Put it together Tune it to 72mm a second: It’s doing 8.8lbs in 10 minutes with the manual hopper (about 3 boxes an hour), this is about 2 coins a second. Manual Hopper: 600 sec: 1089, 2.15 a second Out of curiosity: Hand sort Test: 125 Sec: 2 1982, 15 copper, 50 zinc, 67 total, .536 a second

Angle Conveyor Connector: Make the angled connector wider Slot for rod wider *Rod 2mm lower and 2mm farther out.

[pkrush]

Today: Refine the Scanning Conveyor: Beef it up. Make mount for top scanning camera: Have the camera’s offset from each other. Lift up side rails where there is no top plate so it can be covered by thick blue paper. Go to a 258RPM motor(from 1000RPM) Change for 4mm shaft. Lower the motor. Open the bottom camera side so I have access to the camera and lights Cut a top plate correctly mirrored Make base for the LED strip Holes to mount the boards Make 2mm shaft holes smaller: The drop off should be thicker around the 2mm shaft.

[pkrush]

Done: Refine the Scanning Conveyor: Beef it up. Lift up side rails where there is no top plate so it can be covered by thick blue paper. Go to 258RPM motor Change for 4mm shaft. Lower the motor. Open the bottom camera side so I have access to the camera and lights Flip the solenoids on the side rails. Make base for the LED strip Add holes to mount the boards Make 2mm shaft holes smaller: The drop off should be thicker around the 2mm shaft. *Make holes for angled conveyor connector

[pkrush]

Done for now. I need to take and post pictures of it!

All Done: Scanning Conveyor: Make bottom camera guides Make a Lower camera plate Guides with no top plate on the scanner intake If a T-Nut is in a corner such at the scanner legs the screw should be longer.

Hopper: Notch the hopper side walls for a hopper feed plate Reduce the hopper angle. The tabs on the top plate can be 6mm+ wider Beef up the 2mm shaft

Accumulator: The 2mm drop will break. This needs to be beefier. The drop off should be thicker around the 2mm shaft. Put a 1mm shoulder on the top plate by the motor. Guides with slots to adjust for coin size?