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You say LinuxCNC is way way better than Mach 3.

How so?

A work in progress by a user in NZ but try commanding a pallet changer on a horizontal 5 axis machines like this in Mach3.

This machine fills a shed.
Many people use Linuxcnc to retrofit big commercial machines because of its flexibility and extensibility.
Here the user had hit the limits of using classic ladder and wrote a custom Linuxcnc C component to do this. A week earlier, he knew nothing about programming and is now loving it!

ihavenofish wrote:

cool.

downside to the ethercat is its ONLY ethercat. i wish it has pulse as well. would be more versatile.

It does if you use an Ethercat stepper driver. There are many. I use rtelligent ECT86

From google translatedoes not make much sense....so
VFD or Servo?
With VFD, yes, 7i96S can be used as it has the 0-10V control and has encoder inputs.

Hi, the outputs on the NVEM are not an output voltage like your thinking. They are as shown in the diagram attached. Basically a switch sinking to ground.