On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 4:04 PM Dave Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am thinking about changing my Gatton CNC over from a parallel port > and BOB to a usb or ethernet setup. The current setup works but from > what I have read I will have smoother control with one of the Mesa > boards. > > I think that the board that would do this is a Mesa 7I96. It is > fairly inexpensive, runs5 axis, and interfaces by ethernet. I am > currently running four steppers as X, Y, Z, A on 2.9. Potentially I > would like to add a rotary axis so I would just go with a 5 axis board > to be future proof. > > Is the 7i96 the correct choice or should I look at something else? I > will be replacing a $20 BOB that is hooked to DM542 drivers. > > Dave
Replying to my original. Thanks for the input. The Mesa site doesn't make it very clear as to what does what. I will be grabbing the docs on the 7i92 and 7i96 families and figure out which to get. Probably one of the 7i92 types as there is almost no cost saving when you add in the ribbon cable and it will replace the space taken up by the current BOB. Dave _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
