Hi Keith, Finding a suitable low cost drive for big steppers on a B/port was the reason I changed over to servos. Your setup is working save the occasional drive problem. Can you possibly limit the current on that one drive for holding torque? You said it was during a move so, maybe turn down the velocity and acceleration in Mach2 axis configuration for "Y"?. It's probable that some fine tuning might eliminate future problems. If it works one month it should work many months. I lost a Gecko 320 last week and it was because the current coming into the shop was surging for a few days. Many on here said if I'd had a capacitor on the leads coming from the power supply right at the drive it would probably not have blown. Possibly this is your issue as well? Ron
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