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General Mach Discussion / Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
« on: December 16, 2010, 04:22:39 PM »
Yes, if your drives accept Step/Dir then you can use the parallel port but speed may be limited due to the ports max frequency, it will depend on your encoder count. If you need more speed than the PP can give then you can use one of the external motion controllers such as the SmoothStepper.
If your drives are analogue only then you can still use Mach but you would need something like the DSPMC, Galil or Kflop/Kanalog .
Hood
If your drives are analogue only then you can still use Mach but you would need something like the DSPMC, Galil or Kflop/Kanalog .
Hood