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Early stages of designing a machine that will handle 4X8 material so the approx dims I'm playing with are 6X10.
In pursuit of a rigid 6' gantry, I've noticed it's probably becoming fairly heavy and...

24v 15A power supply
Geckodrive G540 4-Axis Digital Stepper Motor Driver
ESS smoothstepper Warp9
Mach4
bench top 3 axis gantry
all I can think of
As I understand it, a resistor would help...

What size resistor for Nema 23 Stepper Motor 4.2A 3.0Nm
And if you know of a good source but dont want to push my luck.
Thanks
cncneon

Looks like the keyboard plugin is going to be the answer. On the jog tab I do have a green button that reads "enable keyboard input" or something similar but clicking on it does nothing.
I haven't...

Mach 4 hobby on cobbled together learners setup.
To jog my spindle I have to click on the jog tab then use the mouse to click on the appropriate axis button. My arrow keys don't do anything.
When...

would you install over the existing copy or do an uninstall, clean registry, then a fresh install?
And how about the ESS, fresh install on it also?
Also my profile, should I save it or start...

Putting together a 3 axis gantry mainly for engraving. Mach4(demo), ESS, Gecko drives. Got motors tuned & calibrated but when I try to load any of the demo gcode files I get
"a macro failed to...

is it possible to guess the resistor value for a G540 if the steppers are unknown nema 23?
hobby machine, limited use, would I be better off just letting em run hot?
Bob

New to the CNC world. Have converted HF bench mill to CNC and rebuilt a Techno ISEL gantry but those were steppers.
In my travels I picked up a couple Yaskawa YSC-SGMPH-08-001 which appear to be...

When I run the write wizard to engrave copy on ABS and set the Xo and Yo start to 1.0 each, the Xo reverts back to something else when I return to change the copy.
Why will it not stay at 1.0 inch?

My 2.2 pin #4 has continuity with nothing. From what I've researched its probably an unconnected ground. Don't want to pull the back off this
rt now so I'm wondering - will I be OK just grounding...