Hi Guys, I am building my second CNC machine. My first was a small format gantry mill which works superbly with a G540 running under Mach3.
I now wish to build a large format router. The Y axis will run 2 nema 34 motors slaved together electronically via the A axis. As this is a belt drive design I also wanted to run 2 nema 24 (60 frame size, 570 Oz in) on the actual gantry X axis. One at each end of the gantry moving the spindle assembly also via belt drive.
My question is that since I have already used the slaving axis of mach3 on the Y axis. Is my only choice to wire the 2, "X" axis nema 24 motors (3 Amp) on the gantry to a single drive. So question is will a single drive such as the Gecko G210x (7Amp) run the 2 steppers on the gantry simultaneously?
Thanks in advance for any advice
I now wish to build a large format router. The Y axis will run 2 nema 34 motors slaved together electronically via the A axis. As this is a belt drive design I also wanted to run 2 nema 24 (60 frame size, 570 Oz in) on the actual gantry X axis. One at each end of the gantry moving the spindle assembly also via belt drive.
My question is that since I have already used the slaving axis of mach3 on the Y axis. Is my only choice to wire the 2, "X" axis nema 24 motors (3 Amp) on the gantry to a single drive. So question is will a single drive such as the Gecko G210x (7Amp) run the 2 steppers on the gantry simultaneously?
Thanks in advance for any advice