Re: breakout boards plus - hard choice

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "scyvt" <scy@...> wrote:

>
> As I come closer to retrofitting my B-port series I, in some ways

the final choices of

> electronics is becoming harder. Gecko 203V's stepper drivers appear

to be a no-brainer, but

> what stands between them and the PC is not so clear. For quite some

time I was watching &

> waiting on the G-Rex, but in its present evolution it seems too much

- or too little - I'm not

> quite sure. Then the PMDX motherboard looked interesting, but it

doesn't support 203V's,

> nor onboard spindle speed control. So the Sound Logic Combo board

began to seem the

> likely choice, when I came upon the Pico Universal Stepper

Controller. This looks perhaps like

> it has much of the G-rex functionality - especially encoder feedback

- but minus the stand-

> alone programability, which I don't believe I need.
>
> Anybody willing to opine on the relative virtues of these boards?
>
> BTW, I was assuming Mach3, until the UbuntuEMC came out, and now I'm

not so sure on that

> account either.
>
> TIA
>
> Steve clay-Young
>

Let me toss my hat in the ring and ask you to look at our RouterPak1
(stepper) or the RouterPak3 (servo). I guess I am confused because
the Gecko 203 is a stepper model (we use those exclusively for stepper
systems) but the PICO system with feedback and encoders is a servo
based system.

Maybe you need our larger RouterPak3 or 4 ? Differential encoder
cables, custom Gecko interface cards, 1500W (cont) supply. We also
offer a Spindle Speed (digital readout) upgrade as well.

All our systems are optimized for MACH and support our 28 function
hand controller.

At least you may get some ideas (or more confused (:-))

tomCAUDLE
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