John Thornton wrote: > Does anyone use the Xylotex 3 or 4 axis board? Sure, I use a Xylotex 3-axis board for testing things. It is suitable for Sherline sized machines (NEMA23 motors).
> As I understand it all on has to do is plug the parallel cable into > the board and wire up the motors and power supply. > > Is there any other all in one cards for steppers? > > I noticed that on the EMC2 Supported Hardware page that the Gecko > drives are not listed. Are they not supported? > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?EMC2_Supported_Hardware Gecko drives are ordinary step/direction drives. They can take signals from a parallel port (software stepping), OR from any of several EMC supported hardware based step generators. We don't list Gecko drives on the hardware page because EMC doesn't directly interact with the drives. EMC supports ANY step/direction drive. I'm planning on using Geckos for my actual machine - they are nicely suited to running NEMA34 motors, which require more current than the Xylotex drives can deliver. Regards, John Kasunich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
