that's interesting sounds like your machine is similar to what I want to build size wise and you had similar problems to my first machine using cheap sensors which I also use a ip/m on. sound like I will stick with the ip/m then and go slaved unless there is any reason not to I want to stick with similar component to my first machine so I'm not having to learn lots of new stuff slave on the ip/m would be great.

two things I realy need to sort out for my old machine and the new one will be a touch plate and some sort of pendant but when I saw the cost of the one on cs labs it scared me a bit!