> 3) I am really surprised that this works at all without blowing the > drivers. You cannot guarantee that both motors are identical. > > You can feed two same identical step/dir inputs to multiple drivers. That is how my commercial accucut (48" sq) gantry did it. In theory, you could run an infinite number of parallel complete machines all mass producing the same thing if using steppers (signal driver fanout limitations ignored.)
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