Re: Carving-CNC models vs Numerous eBay models ***CONFUSED***
I think you'll find the ones on Ebay are essentially all variants of the same machine, I couldn't even guess who came first, but so far as I'm aware, every machine I've seen Ebay are supplied with the crappy bluebox controllers, or the same crappy controller in a box to resemble the Carving CNC ones.
Carving claim to sell the genuine YooCNC controllers, and from all accounts they seem to work as they should, but if you buy a machine off Ebay you'll get crappy controllers that may state YooCNC, but are vastly inferior clones in most cases.
Generally the choices are:
1 - Buy a machine from CarvingCNC that you are fairly assured will work out of the box
2 - Buy a similar machine from Ebay, and then:
1 - Replace the garbage blue box controller with a Gecko G540
2 - Spend months trying to fix the garbage blue box controller, and in the end give up and buy a Gecko G540 controller.
I own one and can well attest to this personally.
cheers, Ian
It's rumoured that everytime someone buys a TB6560 based board, an engineer cries!