I'm faced with dilemma, which has no obvious answer for me at the moment. I was set to buy Xylotex steppers based kit for my CNC Sherline Mill. After reading more about servo based systems I'm divided, I could appreciate number of advantages of servo based systems
- no missed steps, corrections via closed loop - faster movement speeds, more IPS - positions display (DRO) However, stepper systems are cheaper and basically ready out of the box compare to DIY servo based system, which would require significant build and setup time. Note, I don't have funds for commercial out of the box servo based kit. So, DIY is preferred option. I don't know exactly what kind of work I will do on my CNC Mill in the future, so it's also hard to target setup to future work. I guess I'm trying to decide is it worth the effort and money to build a "better" system (servo based that is) or should I not bother for such a small Mill as Sherline and go with steppers just fine ? Any pros and cons of both type of systems are welcome, especially in relation to usage on Sherline Mills/Lathes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
