Newbie- Please recommend driver board

[javidana]

Sorry Mariss, i truely didnt meen to offend anyone, its just that Im a true newbie and dont know better

Im in the stage where a lot of strange and/stupid questions come of my finger tips. geuss thats the only way to get started for the moment. please accepts my opoligies

[Crevice Reamer]

Originally Posted by javidana How about Gecko g250 is it crap too? Chopper? it certainly falls in the price catagory. Recomend a 4-axis controller that will enable me to mill good quality foam airplane fuselages... thanks

G250 is NOT crap. The low price is the miracle.

If you want the best 4 axis bang for buck, get the G540. If you choose your motors to work within the 3.5A 50V limits, it will do the best job for you.

Here's some info that might be helpful to you:

http://cnczone.com/forums/showthread...709#post572709

CR.

[Bolomill]

Hi all. I get in troubles doing things im not prepared to. Initially i design a copier router to work manually .During the building stage someone had the good or bad idea of sugesting me to use a CNC control instead. I work as CNC machinist ( milling) then i took the idea. Now I have a Leadshine Technology 3 axis pack . DB810A Drivers conected to a Kta-205 parallel port breakout board . Have spent long time trying to move the servos with Mach3. Everything is alright to get my servos runing until power the encoder.
I got motor movement on dro but no signal to the interface.and from the interface.
I will thanks any sugestion.

[Crevice Reamer]

Originally Posted by Bolomill Hi all. I get in troubles doing things im not prepared to. Initially i design a copier router to work manually .During the building stage someone had the good or bad idea of sugesting me to use a CNC control instead. I work as CNC machinist ( milling) then i took the idea. Now I have a Leadshine Technology 3 axis pack . DB810A Drivers conected to a Kta-205 parallel port breakout board . Have spent long time trying to move the servos with Mach3. Everything is alright to get my servos runing until power the encoder. I got motor movement on dro but no signal to the interface.and from the interface. I will thanks any sugestion.

Hi Bolomill. Welcome to the Zone!

Check your parallel port. If you connect a printer, will it print? Is Mach3 set to proper port address? is everything set to port 1? Check that your computer cable is a "straight thru" type. Use an ohmeter to check each end of each wire in cable.

CR.

[Bolomill]

Tk. Crevice Reamer. Was elemental , I was using the wrong cable, now i learn something , not to use any scrap without testing first.
I hoppe to get everything runing after find the right cable.

[Crevice Reamer]

Originally Posted by Bolomill Tk. Crevice Reamer. Was elemental , I was using the wrong cable, now i learn something , not to use any scrap without testing first. I hoppe to get everything runing after find the right cable.

Good JOB!

If nothing else you can get one fast at pretty reasonable shipping HERE:

http://kelinginc.net/CNCPackage.html

Scroll down near the bottom.

This sounds like an interesting project. Please start a thread and keep us posted on your progress.

CR.

[Bolomill]

I have a manual pulse generator Fagor 100E . My idea was to move it trough a dented belt driven by the linear movement of a probe over the irregular surface of a pattern, and send the signal to my z axis to copy it on the working material.
I would like to know if Gecko has any breakout board to interface this pulse generator with a G 250 Drive. Already order one. to move a step motor with diferential encoder.