Please advise me of any flaws in my plan and I appreciate any comments.ĭoes Mach 3 prefer to run from serial or parellel port? Hence my interest in Vetric software which covers all these possibilities. Will be wanting to use mill for light machining but am very interested in engraving and sign writing, even photo engraving, obviously on a small scale as dictated by machine size. Will want to use Mach 3 as there is so much online support and turtorials for this program.Īm thinking about the vetric software for basic cad and cam. Or the CNC1 from CDE which runs on serial port I am looking at 2 options for control boxesĮither the XBOX3 from Zapp which appears to runs via a paralell port. Is this a good choice? Probably make motor mounts etc myself. Probably get ball screws, and NEMA 23 stepper motors from Zapp. I'm probaly going to get a AMA25lV milling machine.
This leads me onto another couple of questions which I need this forums members expertise to answer.įirst of all, let me tell you my plan. Not only does the desk top method mean I have to spend less of the hard earned cash, but I believe there is less potential for problems (according to my research so far, correct me if I'm wrong) An added advantage of desktops is that you will have serial and parallel ports built in. Lots of refurbished dells about with windows XP. Also had a good look on e bay and I reckon I can get a desktop, screen, keyboard etc for less than £70. Many thanks for that info, had a look in my garage today and have decided that a desk top will fit nicely on the side of my bench that I plan to use for the milling machine. My laptop is a Dell Latitude C640, 120 quid off eBlag. It worked wonderfully for a year but I could see a real standalone PC was what was needed.
MACH DESKTOP PC FULL
I then had problems with the machine overheating so I needed a utility to turn on and keep on all the system fans at full power, then another utility to prevent windows from switching the CPU to low power mode. My experience with a dell laptop was needing to turn off all powersaving features i.e. Add a touchscreen and you don't even need a keyboard or mouse. Now it's in a warm dry place and I blagged a 2.8Ghz SFF Dell pc to run it off. Or am I missing something?! :whistling:In my case it was that the Router would be living in a place that was not conducive to leaving a PC permanently with it i.e. It definitely beats worrying about compatibility. And you can expand IO with extra parallel ports.īut where to put a big bulky desktop box? Just put it ummm, under the massive router. Probably about 20% of the cost for the same performance (£50 will get you something that'll run EMC and Mach in its sleep).
Unless your router will fold up into a laptop bag, a desktop makes more sense. I recon life CAN be as simple as beans on toast.
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