Re: supertech

As far as I can tell the driver board and it's firmware are
proprietary. I do know when I bought mine Supertech was still having
major issues with stepper drivers burning up...my controller was
replaced under warranty in the first few months and repaired some
time after that...my feeling is if I pay $3000 for a complete turnkey
system, I should NOT have to dump MORE money into just getting it to
work.

So far Super-Tech has refused to answer the latest round of emails on
the topic...last time I spoke to them about a month ago they were
quite willing to sell me a servo conversion...when all I wanted was
what I paid for and never got in the first place...a working system.

It is interesting to note the same dxf files can be imported into
Mastercam and run flawlessly in a matter of seconds...since the
customers I still have, I job their orders out to a competitor who
runs MasterCAM I've seen this personally...I lost so many customers
from late deliveries and so much money from scrapped workpieces I had
to take a day job driving a delivery truck just to keep the bills
paid...

lurch

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, R Rogers <rogersmach@...>
wrote:

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> Not familiar with Supertech.
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> What are the electronics? Are they generic like Geckos and a

standard parallel port interface? If so, I'd try Mach3 for control
software.

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> Ron
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> Lurch <lurch9@...> wrote:
> has ANYONE on this list ever gotten the supertech stepper

motor setup

> to complete a workpiece without dropping steps or otherwise going

goofy

> and trashing the workpiece?
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> I've had a supertech stepper motor mill for almost 4 years...and to
> date I still have yet to get my reject rate below 80%. Seems like
> almost every workpiece it will drop a step or two, and there is a
> randomness to which axis or at what point. I've readjusted

everything

> on the mill for silky-smooth action, and even run it with the nuts

and

> gibs set loose. Doesn't seem to make a difference. The controller

box

> has been replaced once already.
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> I would dearly love to know what setups others are using...maxnc,
> microproto, imsrv, and what results they have had.
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> Thank you.
> Lurch
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