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bdphillips03
My question. Is there a way to change and use a PC type driven controller? I emailed the nice folks at Mach and they said I would have to retro fit the lathe with steppers in order to use their software
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I imagine they indicated step/direction control which does not preclude servo's, just that you either need step direction servo drives or a converter from step/dir to analogue.
Also confirm your 6T does not have resolvers instead of encoders.
They also have a Galil card based system.
Al.
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