Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: CNCpro VS Artisan Vs DeskncWin

It will soon be available. I'm not sure of the price but when we first
started talking about we agreed that the price needed to be <$200

Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Marconett KM6VV <KM6VV@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 3:32 PM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] 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
>