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« on: October 30, 2013, 03:07:33 PM »
The IP-M or IP-S would work for you. The IP-M however is limited to 125KHz pulse so you may possibly have to use electronic gearing in the drive, that will depend on the steps per unit and velocity you had. The IP-S can pulse to 4MHz, so no electronic gearing would be required.
There are other controllers such as the Ethernet SmoothStepper (ESS) that can pulse to 4MHz as well but the ESS is only 5v I/O and also just single ended Step/Dir signals. You could possibly use single ended signals with your drives but they may be unreliable unless you are very particular about shielding. You ideally also want a breakout board if using the ESS, the CSMIO controllers dont require breakout boards.
Hood