Quote Originally Posted by dharmic View Post
Maybe, depends on whether a $5 eBay chinesium breakout works with their card, and whether their card (for crossing over convenience) supports Mach3.

But yeah, next machine for sure will take a much closer look at this.
You can use most parallel port breakouts with any of Mesa's 25 pin I/O motion control cards including the 7I92.
You do need compatible firmware that matches the BOBs pinout, for example the 7I92 has these parallel port
compatible configurations available now:

7i92_5ABOBx2D For 2X $5 5 axis Ebay BOB
7i92_5ABOB_Enc For 1X $5 5 axis Ebay BOB + 5 encoders w index on second connector
7i92_BENEZANx2D For Benezan triple beast
7i92_C11x2D For CNC4PC C11 (old version with PFM spindle)
7i92_C11Gx2D For CNC4PC C11G (newer version with PWM spindle)
7i92_DMMBOB1x2D For DMM breakout
7i92_G540x2D For Gecko G540
7i92_MX3660x2D For LeadShine MX3660
7i92_MX4660x2D For LeadShine MX4660
7i92_R990x2D For Rutex R990 BOB

Different configurations can be created easily by changing one pinout file and re-compiling