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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: I Need to Choose a Motion Controller
« on: January 12, 2017, 10:23:52 PM »
Craig
Thank you for the time, research and thought you put into responding to my question. I truly appreciate it. I took a look at the other PoKeys products that you mentioned. I'm new to the CNC world and just don't have the knowledge and sophistication to make something like that work which is why I'm leaning towards a DB25 solution. In the future I may change out my system to something better and that will support stepper motors with higher amperage. But until I become more confident in my CNC capabilities and start running into the limitation of my hardware I'm going to stick with what I have.
It sounds like, from your vantage point, I should be fine with either of the two motion controllers but that you might be leaning towards the PoKeys solution.
I'm running a new Lenovo computer without a parallel port. It came with Windows 10 but I rolled it back to Windows 7 Professional 32 bit. I've thought about buying a parallel port card for it but that is just another piece of hardware to slow things down and is tired technology.
Again, thank you for the time and effort you put into responding to my question.
Britt
Thank you for the time, research and thought you put into responding to my question. I truly appreciate it. I took a look at the other PoKeys products that you mentioned. I'm new to the CNC world and just don't have the knowledge and sophistication to make something like that work which is why I'm leaning towards a DB25 solution. In the future I may change out my system to something better and that will support stepper motors with higher amperage. But until I become more confident in my CNC capabilities and start running into the limitation of my hardware I'm going to stick with what I have.
It sounds like, from your vantage point, I should be fine with either of the two motion controllers but that you might be leaning towards the PoKeys solution.
I'm running a new Lenovo computer without a parallel port. It came with Windows 10 but I rolled it back to Windows 7 Professional 32 bit. I've thought about buying a parallel port card for it but that is just another piece of hardware to slow things down and is tired technology.
Again, thank you for the time and effort you put into responding to my question.
Britt