[uspl]

Hi

Fired up the router this morning to discover the latest w10 update had killed Mach3, AGAIN !
Fair enough, it is very old software, so be it.

I am planning on switching to UCCNC and am hoping it is as simple as pulling out the Smoothstepper and replacing it with a UC100. Downstream is a KTA-205 https://oceancontrols.com.au/KTA-205.html that has served me very well for many years.

Apart from the software learning curve, am I going to be that lucky ??

BTW, PC is an i7 with 12Gb RAM, I expect that will handle UCCNC.

Thanks in advance

[dazp1976]

Hi

Fired up the router this morning to discover the latest w10 update had killed Mach3, AGAIN !
Fair enough, it is very old software, so be it.

I am planning on switching to UCCNC and am hoping it is as simple as pulling out the Smoothstepper and replacing it with a UC100. Downstream is a KTA-205 https://oceancontrols.com.au/KTA-205.html that has served me very well for many years.

Apart from the software learning curve, am I going to be that lucky ??

BTW, PC is an i7 with 12Gb RAM, I expect that will handle UCCNC.

Thanks in advance

If already using a smoothstepper with a breakout board. May I suggest you forget the UC100 and get a UC400eth instead?. Ethernet is better and it has the same idc26 connections as the smoothstepper.

[joeavaerage]

Hi,
what about Mach4?

A new UC100 or UC300 or UC400 and a UCCNC license would be about the same as a Mach4 license. Your existing ESS will do Mach4 just fine, I've been using Mach4 ans an ESS
for eight years.

Craig

[joeavaerage]

Hi,
just as a matter of interest if you do decide to get a UC100, and I certainly have no reason to disbelieve that it would not be a workable solution, don't buy one of the Chinese rip-off uc100's that abound on
Ebay and Amazon....they are not a patch on the real thing by CNCDrive (Hungary).

Craig

[Jmhx2]

I did the same thing on my router a few years ago. I went with uc300-ub1. It worked so well I duplicated the same controller on my mill a few years later. The other thing I would consider is acorn..I agree with dazp1976, I would go with ethernet.

[dazp1976]

Another option is to get hold of a retail version of win7 sp1. Once it's installed that's the end of it. You don't get the updating, it stays as it is and doesn't mess Mach3 up.

[Jmhx2]

I did the same thing on my router a few years ago. I went with uc300-ub1. It worked so well I duplicated the same controller on my mill a few years later. The other thing I would consider is acorn..I agree with dazp1976, I would go with ethernet.