On Friday 20 September 2019 21:34:51 andy pugh wrote: > On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 at 02:15, John Dammeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Otherwise I'd probably sell the STMBLs. > > You would probably find a buyer for one, if you have seen the gitter > recently. The one that I blew up and sent to Jack has blown up again. > > And there's part of me that's being tugged in the direction of an > Ethernet > > > Smooth Stepper and MACH3 on WIN-10 with all the issues I'm having > > with the MESA. > > You should do what is right for you. Nobody has any financial interest > in encouraging you to use LinuxCNC. I do wonder if this is part of the > reason that Mach does so well? There are folk making money from that > encouraging its use even for things it is not very good at (like > lathes)
I OTOH, have attempted to make mach3 do the simple things I expected to be possible to do on a 6040 gantry mill, and became so frustrated with what mach3 could not do, that the whole control box and all the mach3 interfacing hardware is now on the path to the trash trailer. Replaced by a vfd that works in both directins under control of a 5i25-7i76D combo. The 24 volt stepper supply folded back to about 14 volts when the A stepper was plugged in. And the vfd refused to follow orders from anyplace but its own control panel. I did salvage the motor drivers and that stepper psu, but I don't have a place to use them as the motors I have everyplace but on that 6040 are 3x the torque its motors have. I'm useing a quad of 2M542's with a 28 volt 12.5 amp supply from the old hf mill, and may yet use its Z motor on the 6040 due to the speed limit of aout 20 ipm imposed by that puny motor when lifting that 1+ hp water cooled spindle motor. Now I can write the gcode and do it all from the r key, including a cooling mist driven by shop air. All under g-code or mouse control. Mach3 couldn't do much of that, not enough output pins. Now I have i/o to throw away. Once I get the rpi4 running the sheldon, next is a tool changer on the 6040. Got to have a project to keep me out of the bars don'cha know. :) Mach3? Spit. Linuxcnc is 10x more versatile. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
