Quote Originally Posted by Muzzer View Post
CNCdrive sell a step/dir DC servo for brushed motors. I've got 2 of them on my Shizuoka and they have been a great experience. These are about £100 each, which hardly breaks the bank. They also avoid the need to mess about with a perfectly good installation.

http://shop.cncdrive.com/index.php?productID=366
oh ok, that does sound like another possible route to take then. So with those drives, I would just need to buy a breakout board to link up to a PC and some control software and I would have a useable machine? providing my motors are still good...

If I did take this route the current setup uses linear scales for position feedback, would that be easy enough to incorporate into this type of system somehow?