Mesa VS Pico?

Einar wrote: ... I would certainly have ordered from emcPT if I knew that my order was not going out as promised.
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For the record: The boards were not by far as delayed as some have reported. I got them first day after christmas.

guys any news whit mesa i have tried to email and call no answer . i have a order from last 30.12 and no news

I emailed you saying that the 7I77 was out for stock
and should be available sometime around next week

sorry peter did not get it . Its already payed but you did not process the payment

I did not order Pico because I was confused about the options and what was required to order for my particular setup. I found the Mesa information and to be sufficient and explained what I needed to order for my purposes.

Would that have changed with more information available for Pico systems directly related to my system? Perhaps. With reading about limited availability of Mesa hardware, I was strongly considering Pico. In the end, I did not feel as comfortable with the options. Either due to information overload or my limited understanding of the options, both perhaps contributed.

For my system the 5i25/7i77 was precisely what I was needing and found a lot of information on this site about my configuration. I feel that Pico did not have the same information easily available to me. Does that mean the information does not exist, certainly not. However just breaking into this field, I can say from my experience - Mesa was extremely easy to setup and I understood all available options and how to apply this for my particular needs. My Mesa system worked on my first try, and that was a relief for a new user.

For example - If I wanted to purchase a Pico system to handle exactly what I need for this system, a Bridgeport Interact, what would I need to purchase? I still unsure, I stopped researching the system and decided Mesa.

I am very new to all of this. Pico I'm sure was an option, but in the end, It was down to existing documentation that already existed on my particular system and the wealth of information I found on other systems.

I will be retrofitting a lathe next [Once the lady of the house approves] then I will look at Pico and Mesa again to determine the next setup.

This is my opinion and that is all that matters, in the end - I did choose what I chose. As a new entry customer I found the Mesa easy to configure and install due to the above reasons.

Please do not take this as a knock on Pico systems. This was my experience and my reasoning for my ultimate decision.

I strongly believe both systems are capable and support is excellent on which ever you ultimately decided to use.

cncnoob1979 wrote: I did not order Pico because I was confused about the options and what was required to order for my particular setup. I found the Mesa information and to be sufficient and explained what I needed to order for my purposes.

Would that have changed with more information available for Pico systems directly related to my system? Perhaps. With reading about limited availability of Mesa hardware, I was strongly considering Pico. In the end, I did not feel as comfortable with the options. Either due to information overload or my limited understanding of the options, both perhaps contributed.

Well, you could have called or sent me an email. I would have been happy to help you figure out what our products could do for your specific project.

For example - If I wanted to purchase a Pico system to handle exactly what I need for this system, a Bridgeport Interact, what would I need to purchase? I still unsure, I stopped researching the system and decided Mesa.

So, this has SEM motors on it? Do you have the servo drives? What shape are they in, and what brand?
I've sold the gear to a few people who have retrofitted these, but I think they replaced the servo amps with newer units from eBay.

For use with existing velocity servo amps or newer ones from AMC or Copley, you can use our PPMC board set, which is $780 for the basic set. Or, you can use our PWM system, but our servo amps are limited to 20 A peak. That may be enough for the Bridgeport with SEM motors, however. A 3-axis system would be $625 in that case.

Jon