Re: Curiosity: Boss vs EzTrak

boss 3 thru 7 were stepper, and control is clunky by today standards,
but had good features for it's time. boss 8 and later switched to
servos. Excellent programming, terrible electronics. BOSS controls
are a "high-end control" by Bridgeport's way of thinking.


To compete with the retrofit and low end market,
Bridgeport used the southwest industries Prototrak controls for a
while (good move - great control !!!) then came out with their own
pc-based eztrak control (piece of s**t) as an entry level
machine, mounted on the Series 1
Standard mill (not the CNC iron like the BOSS machines.)

Also used Heidenhain and Fanuc on CNC iron and VMCs



dirty dave
the tacky techie
former bridgeport application engineer

> I'm just curious, what is the difference between the Boss series of
> CNC machines based on Bridgeport iron and the Ez Trak series of CNC
> machines based on Bridgeport iron? The later seem to be sold by
> Bridgeport itself, but it sounds like the former were as well?
>
> It seems variuos Boss models came with steppers or servos, while the
> Ez Traks are as far as a I know all servo. Did they just start

using

> a new name for their new models at some point or is there some
> substantial distinction?
>
> Chris
>