[Electech]

First post on this forum, let me know if this is the wrong place to post this, please.

I bought a Newing-Hall engraving table on ebay. I am attaching pictures.

I want to upgrade the controls and want to ask people more experienced than I am on what they would do.

I am an industrial electrician/technician working on german printing presses, I have a working knowledge of electronics but mostly do repairs.

This table works as is but runs on a dos based program limited to text, and arrow heads. That can be changed but have to have a different eprom for each type of symbols or fonts.

I want to be able to use say corel draw or mach2, basically some type of windows based software that can do graphics. I use corel draw with my Roland SX-12 vinyl cutter. I am looking for a new controller and possibly motors if these wont do the job.

The table on this is about 15" x 13".
The stepper motors are slo-syn step motors:
M063-FD06 200 steps/rev
Hold 150 oz.
3.36 volts, 2.9A
x and y are motor driven
z is the down motion powered by an air cylinder

Newing Hall will upgrade this table to there new system for about $8000.00 needless to say that is out of the question. I paid $600 for this and hope to spend less than that to upgrade it myself.

thanks

Steve