Hi Folks, I've posted this elsewhere and received one main suggestion that it's not really worth the effort to rekit a good Universal laser frame, with Chinese workings, compared with just buying the already-fitted Chinese laser.

However I have a spare ULS V400, with a fairly dead motherboard, but good steppers, and power supply.
And our M-300 has a motherboard problem, so if I could just get a ULS motherboard for either, I'd be possibly quite happy,
but otherwise, I'd be interested in recommendations of controllers & drives to make a workable 80W unit.

I've seen Leadshine axis drives from about $80 AUD each on ebay, or the little 2M425, 2M542 drives for about $15 each...
I have a Ruida 5442G controller here that I bought to use on our big Chinese Goldenlaser, but for the moment, I'm happy to leave its old obnoxious stuff in it, while it works...
so I could use that... or is there a simpler controller anyone would recommend?


Any suggestions of something useful, or to tell me I'm mad are appreciated!
Thanks.

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