Steppermotor driverboard for Mach 3
Hi!
I am building my own CNC router and have a problem with what driver to choose. I am currently using an Arduino with a GRBL-shield and it works just fine with Universal Gcode Sender but I would like to upgrade to Mach 3. Mainly because Mach 3 has feedrate override, touch off and hole center finding capabilities. So what driverboard should I use?
I am only using 3 axis and don't plan to use a 4th so 3 axis is fine. I have a 24V 15A power supply and Nema 23 motors with 1204 eBay ballscrews. I would like to connect to my pc with a USB cable. And not too expensive :P
Suggestions are welcome! Thank you
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Re: Steppermotor driverboard for Mach 3
There are, last time I looked, very few units that support USB connection to MACH 3... Typically MACH 3 runs via PC parallel port.
MACH 4 has more support from USB people, but the "not too expensive" versions are questionable.
Having said that, I'm not up on the latest from MACH and the USB connection boards so someone else may have better info, which I will be glad to learn about as well.
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http://techref.massmind.org/techref/io/motors.htm Disagree? Tell him what's missing! ,o)
Re: Steppermotor driverboard for Mach 3
Stepper drives only accept step and direction signals.
If you want to use a USB connection, you need a Mach3 compatible USB motion controller. The stepper drives than connect to the motion controller, either directly, or through a break out board.
Gerry
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