Re: CNCpro VS Artisan Vs DeskncWin

Hi Dan,

What's the serial adapter? Is it available separately?

Alan KM6VV

Dan Mauch wrote:

>
> Here is a tease. I have the serial adapter for deskncWin and tested it on a
> few of my gecko and stepper motor drivers. The serial adapter is quite small
> and is not much more than a 7805 for use with a wall wart power supply
> (6-12V) a chip similar to the Max232 and a PIC chip.
> I connected everything and tested the first axis. I was somewhat
> disappointed because I was getting 2500 SPS speed from my 5A stepper motor
> drivers using DeskNC for Dos and a 450 oz in stepper motor. I was only
> getting 2000 SPS with deskncwin, Then I started to tweak the acceleration
> profile and soon I was running the same motor at 9500SPS in the half step
> mode. That equals 1425 RPM. It is the fastest I have ever gotten a program
> to run one of my steppers on a 36VDC power supply. AWESOME!
> Desknc for windows uses the EMC program for the G code and many of the
> functions. Together with the serial adapter it works really well. The only
> problems are that Carl has not yet implemented backlash compensation and
> constant contouring. He hope to have those done soon.
> Dan