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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Help and advising on breakout board / motion controller for my machine
« on: August 27, 2013, 02:40:54 AM »
My advice would be to start out simple (and cheap) with a basic PC (with parallel port) and a basic breakout board.
Once you have your machine up and running (having learnt about the way in which your motor controllers are connected, limit / home switches configured and Mach3 is setup etc.) you will know it’s full potential together with any possible limitations.
You then have a base to work from and can improve (perhaps at a cost) the areas that need improving.
(Although I have a Smooth Stepper motion controller, for 99.9% of the time I am still using the parallel port and basic PC running WinXP).
Tweakie.
Once you have your machine up and running (having learnt about the way in which your motor controllers are connected, limit / home switches configured and Mach3 is setup etc.) you will know it’s full potential together with any possible limitations.
You then have a base to work from and can improve (perhaps at a cost) the areas that need improving.
(Although I have a Smooth Stepper motion controller, for 99.9% of the time I am still using the parallel port and basic PC running WinXP).
Tweakie.