[elmerfud]

I cant believe you're driving a bridgeport with it, I bought this kit with an RF45 in mind.
Post a few pics please? The breakout board is a rip off from Keling, wires the same. The driver PDF is easy enough to find with google advanced search, let me know if you cant find it.

[byplane]

I found a 78 volt power supply on ebay. It made ALL the difference. I can run the X and Y up to about 35 ipm. Even that's a little more than the acme screws want. They chatter sometimes. So I slowed them all down to 20 to 25 ipm. Even that seems a tad fast sometimes. I tuned them though the wizard under settings. Just above the reset button. Auto tune, best thing since sliced bread. Now that Mach3 and the hardware are getting along. I ran the circle wizard and the pocket wizard in space (the knee way down ). All seems well at this point. I think I need a to do something different with the Z drive. Either a different ratio or a bigger stepper. I tried to bore a hole with the jog, maybe a bad idea I don't really know. I set Mach3 to jog by step and set the step to 0.001. You can't feel tool pressure from the jog button so I may have been crowding it too much, but I could here the stpper miss a step every now and then. I'll take some pics and post 'em for you guys. Any tips tricks or comments are more than welcome.

[byplane]

Here's a few quick and dirty. Sorry about the mess but I built it to use not to look at. The hand wheel is the original with a mod to the handle it self. Just push the button on the end and pull it out. I considered doing something similar for the Z but I'm shying away from that. I have a drill press. After I figured out Mach3 is geared for a touch screen I had to have one. Now let's get to the meat and potatoes and make something. I'm going to try a sproket. I use them on the hay elevators I build. Pretty low tech but vital nonetheless. I'll keep you posted.