Self Installation
With a Self Installation, we ship the T-Connect kit directly to you and your team carries out the fitting on each machine.
This is the right option if you have in-house maintenance or electrical engineers who are comfortable working inside CNC machine cabinets, and you'd rather schedule the rollout around your own production windows.
What arrives
Each shipment contains, per machine:
- A T-Connect unit with antenna
- A DC power cable (for the 24V supply inside the cabinet)
- One or more current transducers (for spindle power monitoring)
- Velcro pads for mounting
- A USB-C cable for initial WiFi provisioning
What your team needs
- A laptop with Chrome (WiFi provisioning is only supported on Chrome)
- A qualified electrical engineer to work inside the machine cabinet — see the safety notice in the installation guide
- Your WiFi network credentials
- A 12–24 V DC supply protected by a 500 mA fast-acting fuse (or equivalent circuit protection) upstream of the T-Connect — the unit must be fed from a fused circuit
- Around 20 minutes of isolated (powered-off) time per machine
How to install
Step-by-step instructions for fitting a T-Connect into a machine — provisioning WiFi, wiring up the 24V supply, and clamping the current transducer around the spindle phase — are in the T-Connect Installation Guide.
If you're also wiring a running signal or a part count into the digital inputs, see Wiring the Digital Inputs.
Need help?
If anything's unclear or your machine cabinet doesn't match what's described in the guide, email support@trackmymachines.com and we'll walk you through it.