The biggest plus I see is that if it is easy to set up it might be a good way to go, especially at $90 delivered. I am not a big fan of USB but it does seem to work fine for the Mach 3 crowd. The biggest negative I see for the Mesa products is that they are very difficult to get set up for most people. The LinuxCNC docs are set up for people that have been using it for 20 years or those that want to spend hours digging. Even finding docs for setting up auto gantry alignment on my parallel port router has been difficult. I have found a couple examples for Mesa setups but knowing what to edit on my setup is not clear. Stopconf works great but after that it gets real murky real fast.
Dave On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 12:52 PM John Dammeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > This might have been mentioned on the MACH CNC group but the reality is that > if you want LinuxCNC and two parallel ports the MESA 7i92 is less expensive > and not tied to potential speed issues via USB. For example WIN-10 won't > run the USB based Smooth Stepper but will run the Ethernet Smooth Stepper > with MACH4. > > So for LinuxCNC at $89 the 7i92H is just overall a better deal. Or any of > the MESA or PICO based products. For all the costs involved in CNC the truth > is during the learning curve part the broken tool bits and trashed work is > far more expensive but considered part of the costs. Ethernet is faster and > less likely to have timing issues. > > My 2 cents. > > John > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dave Matthews [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: July-23-20 8:42 AM > > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > > Subject: [Emc-users] Machmaker USB -> Parallel > > > > A link to a video for this thing showed up in my facecrap feed. It > > looks like a UC-100 only for LinuxCNC 2.9. They are demoing on a Pi > > 4. Has anyone got any experience with the Linumeric-LPT v1? Price > > and ordering are not shown on the site, you are directed to email > > them. > > > > Product Link - http://machmaker.pl/index.php?p=1_13 > > > > VIdeo - > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txivr8j86t8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR04UYfSGbRucny1aek0HVgJGrBkG0FiaxosNx_DQ > > iKoZXNBPOXl1Raue3A > > > > Dave > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
