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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: greg on February 15, 2007, 10:32:37 PM

Title: new machine
Post by: greg on February 15, 2007, 10:32:37 PM

i am going to build a new mill  or router? i am waiting to see how the cnc bridges x2 conversion goes? if it will not work for me i will build a router. i have started collecting electronic parts, such as power supply, gecko 320s motors. i would like to control it with either nc pod or g rex. can someone explain the difference between them? there pros and cons thanks in advance greg ???

Title: Re: new machine
Post by: Brian Barker on February 23, 2007, 10:12:17 AM

The NCPod is a smaller devise that  has only 6 in, 6 out, 6 home inputs and 6axis output. the G100 is 16 in, 16 out, 6 home inputs ,6Axis encoder inputs and 6axis output. The NCPOd is only 75KHz and the G100 is 4 Mhz... For a simple router the NCPod should work great.

Title: Re: new machine
Post by: greg on February 23, 2007, 02:21:10 PM

so do i understand that with encoders the g rex would be the choice? is it correct that the nc pod would not have enough inputs for the encoders? thanks greg

Title: Re: new machine
Post by: Brian Barker on February 24, 2007, 05:50:54 PM

At this time the NC Pod will not read encoders :( So the G100 or Galil is the only way that you are going to read the encoders at this time.