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Jeff

I understand that Mach III will take over as the controller when I do my installation, but I would like to know what will remain of the old drop in controller and wire from the original machine. Did you discard it? If so it looks like a good location for me to mount a box with my FANUC rotary pulse generator and/or flat screen, etc.

I think I will move forward using my current driver boards and get this machine going. I can always upgrade again next year when Gecko has perfected those new drivers with the opto feed back. Thank you.

Fred

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Jeff
Yes, the 2800 is the larger "mid-size" unit with LED RPM display for the 1-1/2 horsepower brushless DC spindle motor with a BT-30 taper in the spindle. The axis motors are stepper with extended spindles and I just saw that Gekco is developing an opto encoder setup for steppers that would fit these motors. It sounds very intersting and may be worth waiting for, unless you tell me that I can use my current driver boards as is.

Fred

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Jeff

Thank you for your reply. It looks like good stuff! I am planning on using Mach III but I thought I had to replace the driver boards with Gecko units because the current boards are analog and I thought Mach III was sending digital signals.  Are you are saying that I can use the existing driver boards?
I have a new breakout board ready and I ordered a wiring schematic from Dyna Mechtronics in Sunnyvale California. But, no I’m not in any hurry and would like to know more about this distribution board that I will have to make. Thank you.

Fred

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General Mach Discussion / Installing Mach3 on a Dynamite 2800 machine
« on: June 26, 2007, 09:42:51 PM »
I bought a Dynamite 2800 machine and would like to know if I can just use the RS232 port from my computer running Mach3 and keep the machine controller or do I have to go into the driver boards? I understand the Dynamite machine has good iron, but does not use G code, which raises my question about using Mach3 without changing some of the hardware. I need all the help I can get with the sofware issue. Thank you. Fred Fulmer

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