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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: Catalano on August 26, 2020, 09:35:10 PM
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Hi Everyone
I've just started at a company that has a "NC Plaz Compact" plasma cutter, which is connected to a Windows XP machine via a parallel cable.
As part of the IT team, I'm a bit nervous that the computer running Mach3 going to fail on us any minute and result in a panic to get everything running on something newer. From what I've read around here already, I'll need an external controller to be able to function on a 64-bit OS (likely on a PC without a parallel port as well).
Unfortunately the company that supplied the cutter, Design Correlations, has gone bust. This leaves me with no leads to chase up a compatible controller.
I was hoping someone might have some advice on purchasing a controller for this particular cutter? That or if there are 'generic' controllers that tend to work with most.
Thanks very much in advance!
Tim
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Hi,
at the current time the Ethernet SmoothStepper, breakout board of your choice and a TMC troch height control
partnered with Mach4 offer the best overall solution for plasma with Mach as CNC software. The TMC anti-dive routines are
class leading.
raig