If some one tries to sell you one walk run away! Its quite a nicely designed and built device but the Mach4 plugin is buggy as hell. There is one Chinese manufacturer who claims to have a Mach4 controller, XHC. Like lathe threading or THC then you should do some research before you buy. Note that because Mach4 is fairly new and emerging the controllers have varying levels of real-time function support. Thus one of those devices wouldĭo Mach3 OR Mach4. On the forum will ignore your pleas for help as well.we're heartily sick of trying to get cheap Chinese stuff to work.Īt this time there are five mainstream manufacturers of Mach4 ready boards including the UC300, the Smoothstepper and the 57CNC. If you want to buy cheap then have a go but you will find that the Chinese manufacturers won't help you to get it to work and a lot of the regular contributors You will note that I have not mentioned any Chinese made stuff.they kick you off here if you swear and Chinese made CNC electronics make me swear!
The good news is that these boards all have over 50 inputs and outputs, enough for you to expand. These devices cost a bit more, around $150-$200 and the UC300 and the SmoothStepper require a breakout board as well, probably allowĪs much as another $150 for a good breakout board. If you want more inputs and outputs then there are a few economical multi-port devices like the UC300 (CNCDrive), The Ethernet SmoothStepper (Warp9 TD), DONT GO THERE, they are not nearly as good as the real thing.īuy genuine from CNCDrive or their nominated distributor. Note that the UC100 is very popular so there are hundreds of Chinese knock-offs on Amazon and EBay. They have the equivalent of one ports worth of inputs/outputs, OK for simple machines but a bit restrictive if you want more features. There are three very similar (good) USB input/DB25 output motion controllers, the UC100 (CNCDrive), the PMDX-411 (PMDX) and the 57CNCdb25 (PoKeys). Run Mach on the same PC then you require an external motion controller. If you have Fusion 360 then the PC on which it runs must be 64 bit as Fusion won't un on 32 bit machines. A parallel port runs on Windows 7 32bit and earlier OS's only and only desktop PCs at that.Īny 64 bit OS will require an external motion controller, some are USB connected, some are Ethernet connected.Įthernet connected is preferred, much lower latency and the connection is much more resistant to electrical noise.
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