RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] stepper controller boards

Hi, Dave:

|I need a 4 axis stepper contrller and so far I only found 3 channel units.

Camtronics offers a "fourth axis" driver for their 2 amp boards and I
believe also for their 5 amp boards. This board uses the original 3 axis
board as a "mother board" onto which the fourth axis is mounted.

|Why is one style better/worse
|than another. Since I'm not up to
|servos or high power steppers,
|I'm not up to Geico's (yet)

Gecko's are one axis units; you'll need four for four axes.

|oop's Geko's, (Geico's is car insurance
|here in New Jersey)
|
|I do need to keep it all on one parallel port, so multiple units is not an
option.

Not necessarily true. You can split the printer cable and drive as many
boxes as you want. Now, I'd not split the cable but would get a connector
and wire as many separate cables as necessary. And, if you choose to use
TurboCNC as your software driver, you can assign any pins to any of the
required functions. BTW, TurboCNC can drive up to eight axes.

Hope this helps,

-- Carol & Jerry Jankura
Strongsville, Ohio
So many toys, so little time....