I have an opportunity to buy a Taiwanese Bridgeport clone that was retrofitted with ball screws (3axis), servos and a bandit controller. Apparently the bandit controller is having problems, and the seller wants to sell it for $500. It has an autolube system.
My inclination would be to dedicate a PC to it running Mach or something similar. I basically understand the approach when you have steppers- get a gecko board, hook to PC.
But what is the affordable approach to driving servos? Do servos use a closed loop and feedback from glass scales or what?
Any help/advice would be appreciated.
Thanks-
lkasdorf