Thread: motion control - advice please
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07-11-2022 #1
so as I begin my journey into CNC I am working through many ups and downs....
I now have both a lathe and mill however I also struck a PC disaster with the mill.
Lathe is a Denford Starturn 8 unconverted running Denford DOS software - likely upgrade in the near future
Mill is a Denford Triac already converted to Mach3 with a dual parallel port connection to XP PC.
having got the Mill up and running almost immediately the PC died on me so I am looking for options
I have a Panasonic toughbook that I intent to be dedicated to CNC and a licenced copy of Mach3 on it
it seems pointless if not impossible to try to add parallel ports to the laptop
as I have detail of the parallel pinouts for the mill and a working machine profile in Mach3 it seems like this should be a fairly simple task - or that's my theory anyway..... time will tell
as both machines use the same electronics I was planning to use the conversion on the mill as a template to convert the lathe which should make that process easier when the time comes.
but given the old PC has died on me it looks like I need to move up the process of adding a motion controller to the mill rather than just using it as is.
looking around the UC300ETH seems like a good card for my purposes and has a Mach3 plugin as well as the option to use UCCNC which many seem to like.
I also find myself having the crazy thought that given the number of inputs, outputs and axis on the UC300 could I connect both machines with different machine profiles for each? I don't see myself with any need to run both machines together so while this is a bit of a mad idea it may not be impossible.
any advice for a newb? any other or better options?
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