Hello forum, I have a milling machine that I converted to PC control about 7 years ago, at the time breakout boards where in there infancy, so I made my own, well sort off!!, it actually consists of several boards, relay, charge pump, inverter control, etc etc.

I currently run two printer ports and have three Gecko Drive servo controllers (80vdc) for x,y,z, and one stepper controller for the 4th axis.

I also purchased but never got round to using a none Ethernet smoothstepper about 3 years ago.

So can anyone recommend a breakout board to replace the above but still allow me to use my servo and stepper controllers.

Would I be as well to switch to the smoothstepper now, and or should I replace it with an Ethernet one or other make of controller, also taking into account the imminent release of Mach 4!

Any help and or advice on this would be very much appreciated.

I'm in the UK buy the way

TIA

Shaun.

I should perhaps mention the miller currently works fine, I'm just thinking its time to update.

If it works well then why change?
However if changing personally I would update the whole system and go more industrial with things.
Things  like 24v I/O and  differential step/dir signals so my preference would be the products from CS-Lab
If just wanting a breakout board however then PMDX were (dont need them now with CSMIO stuff) my choice due to their excellent build quality.
Hood

I will say the the stuff from PMDX is great. I have a PMDX/ESS setup on my mill. Running about a year now and it just works.