Found this in the Yahoo Gecko group.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/geckodrive/message/13981
The G-Rex has been a huge disappointment for me. The development time
took 5 years and untold $$$. By comparison, the G203V drive took less
than a year and only $25,000 in direct expenses to develop. It is an
idea I probably loved too much and I loved it for too long. It is
expensive to build, expensive to test and very expensive to support.
In a word, it is nearly unprofitable.
The mistake was misapprehending what our strengths and weaknesses are.
We design good hardware, we are not so good at firmware. The G-Rex
needed both. Second, the G-Rex is being squeezed by improving PC-only
solution step pulse rates at one end and me-too, less expensive
similar products from the other end.
I cannot justify investing any more effort and expense into further
development, hardware or firmware, of the G-Rex given its past market
performance and future potential. Instead, that effort and expense is
going into new motor drives. The Rabbit fiasco was the last nail
driven into an already expensive coffin.
We will always have the G-Rex available. We ordered 500 more G100
boards yesterday. We just aren't going to develop it any further.
Mariss
Brett
yeah, I found that too, along with other concerns about the G100. If it wasn't evident, I was asking about the development within Mach3, that's why I posted here. I actually bought a G100, but am returning it since it doesn't sound like the Mach3 support is going anywhere. As long as Mariss will take it back
, it's unused.
Monte
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