EX Control with Stepper Video

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I just got testing a loaner EX control system with my original stepper motors. The goal was to do a quick test before I switched ot the full servo system that I bought just so I could tell how much performance the controller and servos bring seperately.

I have to say the Acorn/CNC12 setup far exceeded my expectations. The motion is smoother in all cases compared to mach4, and in many cases much faster runtime (which I did not expect).

Thank you to AVID for loaning me the stepper controller version.
Now I’m on to my servo upgrade :slight_smile:

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Thank you so much. Your video has answered most of my questions about a possible upgrade. I’m looking forward to see what you discover about the system with servos. In my particular case I’ve got a 3 HP spindle and NEMA 34 motors. Most of my work is with smaller bits so I don’t really need the new huge spindle. However, smoother/faster and no weird Mach 4 glitches would be awesome.

Thanks,
Garth

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I’m new to this; what’s the rationale behind switching to EX?

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Much smoother trajectory planner, less glitches, more features. I went over it in the video.

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For what it’s worth I just ordered the EX upgrade because of this video. Thank you for making it.