At work we got tired of blowing out Toshiba stepper chips and missing steps that would ruin pieces and tangle up the x axes. We switched the software to Mach3 and installed a Gecko G540 driver box and haven't had any problems at all since then. The CNC-Step controller box is a really rudimentary design that lacks proper filtering and is barely adequate for the task. The cooling for the chips is just an L bracket with a fan! I couldn't get support help from them so I switched to something I know would work. The mechanical components seem to work well! We just finished a run of modifying 500 ruggedized enclosures with a variety of holes and the client commented that the quality was better than what they were getting from a machine shop previously. |