Re: What motor did you used for Bridgeport retrofit?

Thanks Ron, I will send the motor and drive plus pulse generator to
CamSoft Monday for them to figure it out. In the meantime I am
going to try to setup TurboCNC and see what happens. It would be a
coup if I was successful.

Keith

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, R Rogers <rogersmach@y...>
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> Hey keith,
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> Sorry to hear you are still not having any luck with your

retrofit. I would try what Dave suggested with the TurboCNC or Mach2
and a perf board. There are three basic elements to a CNC control:
Pulse source, Driver and motor. The possiblilty of using the exact
same three types of elements repeatedly and arriving at a different
result does not seem very likely.

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> As you know, (I'll mention this for others in the group) I used

Nema 42 DC servos and Gecko320's for my Bridgeport retrofit and I
have no trouble at all with it. If I bought a commercially
manufactured control it wouldn't operate any better.

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> Keith Clark <mail@t...> wrote:
> Who has done a complete and successful Bridgeport retro-fit and

what

> motors did you finally use with Gecko drives?
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> Thanks
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