Don't know if the following will help or not. I have a fairly large router that i built using steppers. size 23 and size 34. the motors are rated five volts. i run them at 50 volts using gecko controlers and a breakout board. My control program is Mach3. It has worked well for me for over two years. No problems with it at all as long as you remember to use twisted shielded pairs for all the control wiring.
I am just now getting into EMC2 and hope to have the same luck with it. I believe that it will give me more flexibility to do some of the non-standard things that I have to get into from time to time. Mach3 is hard to beat for routers, mills and lathes but i can not see it being useful for most other types of CNC work like robotics and pick and place devices. Why? becaue Mach3 is not closed loop capible while EMC2 will (from what i have read so far) very closely approximate it. I will know more once i get my EMC2 box running and hook it up to a test rig. ________________________________ From: John Dunn <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, December 18, 2009 9:41:24 AM Subject: [Emc-users] Stepper drivers Hi there, I am just starting out to try simple cnc on a Taig lathe. I have the emc2 Ubuntu live disk (Hardy Heron) and I am in the process of adding a leadscrew (8mm x 1.25mm) to the Taig lathe, I also have 2 size 23 stepper motors from a printer which I believe are 5 volts 1 amp 6 wire unipolar. The next thing I need are 2 stepper motor drivers. I'm a bit confused about these, will any type match up with emc2 or do they have to be a particular type? I am not expecting to do any serious work on this setup it's just to gain experience. I haven't found much information on the practical side of setting things up with emc2 and would welcome any help or advice you can offer Thank you, J Dunn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
