Xylotec vs Probotics

[PsychoPig7]

Hi all
Does anyone out there have any thoughts about comparisons between Xylotex and probotics 269oz/in kits? Are they both comparable products, and/or what about reliability etc?
Cheers
Noel

[Richster]

Xylotex has been good to me so far. The PSU is certainly a nice bit of kit too, and will work in Oz since it's 230/110 switchable. I can't tell you anything about probotix - do you have a URL? Couldn't find them from a simple Google search....

[nicanor76]

Xylotex to me was good quality, returned emails promptly, etc. Bought the complete kit, seems professional quality, it eventually had issues (probably my fault) so emailed them asking for help and never heard back. Hmm... Ended up buying another board elsewhere instead of buying a replacement board from them.

[jeffmorris]

I bought a kit from Probotix a few months ago. One of the stepper motor boards smoked so I contacted them. They told me to send the kit back to them for testing. Two weeks later, I got the kit back with a new stepper motor board replacing the bad one. I recommend the Probotix kit.

http://www.probotix.com/index.php?view=home

[srbeyer]

I picked up a 4 axis Probotix SideStep kit a few months ago - mostly because I liked the driver boards being separate for each axis in the event of some stupidity on my part. Figured I'd have to work pretty hard to fry everything at once...

Haven't finished my router build, yet, but when I've sent off questions to Probotix, the responses were quick and quite helpful. Even sent off a question Friday night around 10 PM, I believe, and had a response an hour later (which I'd have to assume was simply because he was online at the time, and I wouldn't expect that fast of a response that quickly from anyone, normally). Like I said, mine haven't been doing actual work, but they seem to be very nicely made and they seem to do what they should when I've been test driving them.

Looks like both companies are using the same or very similar (Metapo for the Probotix) power supplies, so the dual voltage shouldn't be an issue from either.

I do know I like the Probotix web site much better - seems much more professional looking. The Xylotex one keeps trying to pop a new window open for most of its internal links when you click on them - sounds silly, but web sites that do that really bug me