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    One of my drivers burned.

    One of my Python Digital motor drivers is gone. These drivers were made by “WWW.CNCbyDesign.com that doesn’t exist anymore and I lost one of them. If anyone knows about these motor driver boards (Model#: B508) I am attaching a pic. I ask you to help me either find where to buy them or if you have some of these to sell I will buy it from you. Thanks.
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    What are the specs? Maybe we can help you find an equivalent.
    James hosts the single best wiki page about steppers for CNC hobbyists on the net:
    http://www.piclist.com/techref/io/steppers.htm Disagree? Tell him what's missing! ,o)


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    Specs.

    This is a two-phase Bipolar motor controller 20-50VDC , 35Khz , Power supply: 3 to 16 amp unregulated, 1.5 to 8.0 amps per phase, Enable, Step, direction Full/Half
    I am using this to control a 1200 Oz/In stepper motor (about 6 A).


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    I would very much recommend you replace that with a geckodrive. Nothing else is going to reliably manage that much power.
    James hosts the single best wiki page about steppers for CNC hobbyists on the net:
    http://www.piclist.com/techref/io/steppers.htm Disagree? Tell him what's missing! ,o)


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    Thanks.

    Thank you.


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    Quote Originally Posted by James Newton View Post
    I would very much recommend you replace that with a geckodrive. Nothing else is going to reliably manage that much power.
    I did it, I bought a couple of Geckos 201x. After I read the manual they have in line I replaced the X and Y axis with the two new drives. Something is note right. I tested the drivers with a small motor and it went very wobbly. I started changing the "motor turning" settings on my Mach3 program to try to avoid it but had no good results, same jerking. Any idea? Thanks.


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    Contact Gecko support.
    James hosts the single best wiki page about steppers for CNC hobbyists on the net:
    http://www.piclist.com/techref/io/steppers.htm Disagree? Tell him what's missing! ,o)


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    Did you set the current properly?


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