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I'd recommend an Ethernet SmoothStepper but there are other choices, some a little cheaper. The motion controller you have is I believe problematic, but all the rest is OK. Really appreciate the information thus far. I don't plan on doing any plasma work with this system but it would be cool to utilize the torch down/up functions for a pneumatic solenoid i designed into my cuter head rather than use Z to retract and extend but this is a nice-to-have and lower priority than getting everything functional. Or are you suggesting that with the switch to mach4 ill need a different control system? So I am assuming that i can interface with the UC300 via that connection I was just using usb because that's what they had in their assembly/configuration videos. The queenbee kit came with the Digital dream uc300 that did come with a vga type adapter (not sure if its actually vga, it just resembles it). Sorry i wasn't more clear with the usb versus ethernet question. I have been running it from my super powerful work computer but with the plan of gong to SBC like a Pi or some crappy Chromebook once i got all the kinks worked out so I am glad to hear that mach4 isnt as resource intensive as i'd imagine. Well i feel lucky that I didnt get much deeper than the setting up axis limit, home directions, and other general stuff in the demo version and didn't really have time to get used to mach3. Range, but for anyone looking to get good plasma performance that is money well spent. High bandwidth THC and good Anti-Dive.whats not to like?. More recently they had a hand in designing and developing the Warprunnerīreakout/THC board.and this has put them ahead of all other manufacturers of Mach4 ready motion controllers. Warp9TD make the Ethernet SmoothStepper, which is a good value and good quality Mach4 ready motion controller. To my knowledge its not against any forum rules to post a link to anotherįorum, provided its genuine and does not disrespect any forum principles on this forum. There is a good thread on the Mach4 forum that describes the many advantages of Mach4 over Mach3, when I find it I will post it. Mach4 is not a power hungryĪpplication, one of the kids cast off school laptops would be ample for it. Its slow to load and do the toolpath draw with large files, say 5M or bigger taking a minute or so.but thereafter its fine.

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This little Windows 7 PC has been running my machine for ten yearsĪnd yet it 'wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding'. I run my machine on a dual core Atom single board PC with 3G RAM and no graphics card, so a chunk of memory is used for video. Mach4 is vastly more stable and reliable. I've had the just the one build of Mach4 on my machineįor about 18 months, and before that I used a build that was over four years old when I swapped it out. Once upon a time you'd seem to have to reload Mach3 every few months because it had gotten corrupted.

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I did however get to upgrade my Mach3 machine and I've been using Mach4 for eight yearsĪnd its light years ahead. This was made worse because I was so familiar with Mach3 and I was mistakenly conflating the two.

Mach4 occasioned a lot of bad press by people whom were upgrading from Mach3 to Mach4, and from personal experience I can tell you that it is justified, its a hell of a learning curve.

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Mach4 looks and behaves very similarly to Mach3 but its a totally new product sharing no code what so ever.