Driver question

[cd_edwards]

I'm about to bite the bullet and start building a 4x4 machine from finelineautomation.com plans. I've been looking at saving a little money (yeah yeah) and found the following on eBay and dHgate. A 2M542 stepper driver with a fairly reasonable price (at least I believe so). Someone in a differant thread mentioned these might be what keling sell. Has anyone tried these drivers and are they any good?

CNC 3 Axis Driver 2M542 4.2A& Breakout board Router kit | eBay


Another question I have is the current limiting resistor. My limited reading has found that the recommendation is to set the driver's switches for full current and then limit the current using an external resistor. does this sound about right?

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[doorknob]

Another question I have is the current limiting resistor. My limited reading has found that the recommendation is to set the driver's switches for full current and then limit the current using an external resistor. does this sound about right?

I do not have direct experience with this driver.

From my reading of the documentation at 2M542-Manual, I believe that the motor current is set by DIP switch only.

The only mention of external current limiting resistors that I found had to do with a completely different purpose, namely to limit the current flowing through the optoisolator inputs for signals such as PLS (step), DIR (direction), and ENA (enable) such that no more than 16mA flows through the LED inside the optoisolators.