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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: dresda on July 04, 2009, 08:44:39 PM
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Hi, Just bought a Milltronics 1, 3 axis knee mill, 1997. the control is a 386sx , glenteck drives & motors.
I was going to rip the control out and install the mach3 but it runs great and it has conv, graphics, etc.
Should I switch to Mach3 or wait until it quits.
How much work would be involved in putting on the Mach3?
Would I need to use the DSPMC motion controller I bought for Vital, or can I use the Glenteck motors and drives?
Will the Mach3 only operate from the parallel port or ethernet?
Regards, Ray.
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IF the machine runs and does what you need then I would leave well enough alone and run it until it quits.
BUT in the mean time I would start looking into the conversion. Getting all your ducks in a row so to speak.
Are the drives steppers or servos IF servos are they step/direction or ANALOG. IF analog I believe there will a low cost conversion available shortly (;-)
SO it just depends(;-)
(;-) TP
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Agree totally with TP, if it does what you need and has the performance you need then stay with it.
Hood
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The servos are analog, that's why I bought the DSPMC motion controller from vital, not cheap, that was over $1000.
I do have another project with Fanuc analog drives and motors, so I can use it on that.
Thanks.