CNC 6040 Controller Board Upgrades

[Pete1977]

The perfect Motion controller for this machine is AXBB-E from CNCDRIVE. This is an Ethernet Motion controller with a built-in breakout board and spindle speed controller. It as 4-axis on the board or up to 6-axis with an extra breakout board that plugs into the expansion port on the side. See it here.
https://www.cncdrive.com/AXBB.html


It can use Mach3 or their own software which is UCCNC which is much much better than Mach3 and works very similar, it's also much cheaper.
I used to fit Mach3 on all the machines I build but have now completely switched to UCCNC and CNCDrive motion controllers as it's so much smoother and much more reliable than Mach3 or Mach4.
To be honest, Mach3 is too long in the tooth and unsupported, UCCNC has surpassed it in every area and is fully supported with good backup.

If you want to buy one of these I keep them in stock for the machines I build/sell and offer to sell to forum members so drop me a PM.

I also keep other cncdrive products, like the uc300ETH which is the Big brother to AXBB-E, it's exactly the same controller but with more inputs/outputs and in a different card format. Though to be honest I prefer the AXBB-E if don't need lots of I/O because it's a very neat little package. See pic.

Other products are the UCR201 wireless pendant, Wireless tool height setter.

Hi,

Thank you so much for the info, that does look like a great setup.

I’ll PM you as I’m interested in the card.


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