So I am playing with a fun new (unreleased) controller and some drivers from @Roy_Cortes at Panucatt. Dual extruder capable smoothieware based unit. I have been waiting to try this thing for a while. Just my luck. I get everything installed and now I have to travel for work next week. Guess I need to get some energy drinks and do my initial testing and tuning before I go.
My Panucatt azteeg x3 has served me so well. It was sad to pull it off its home of so many years. But I am certain just like Roy’s other boards this new board will be a bomb proof workhorse. And his new driver design/footprint is just amazing.
My old front mounted hinged controller box and Viki LCD was just a little bit too tight a fit for the new board. So I designed a new box for the side of HercuLien which mounts the board above a Raspberry Pi3 running Octoprint and a new viki2 mount for the front.
@Zane_Baird I know, after going to smoothieware on my Eustathios and Talos3D Tria Delta I am sold that 32bit is the only way to go for new builds. I have just been waiting for Roy to build a dual extrusion capable board. IMHO Panucatt boards are hands down the best ones out there. And the selection of drivers he is prototyping right now will knock your socks off. He is really covering all the use cases.
Did you notice the cool network daughter board he added time to finally play with smoothieware network interface in addition to my standard choice of Octoprint. Gotta love having options!
It does require one if his newer form factor boards due to the size and pin configuration. The only available version of those boards is currently his GRBL based Gradus M1 Pro designed for CNC machines: http://www.panucatt.com/product_p/gm1pro.htm
@Eclsnowman any kind of timeline on when the new board is made available to the public? I’m looking to order components but kinda stuck due to the issues w/ the X5 Mini V2 not being available.
Your opinion, do I find a cheap RAMPS 1.4 unit (Amazon has some kits for $~50) until they start producing again or?
Both the SD6128 and SD5984 are great drivers. I have been testing them both since I got the other board running. The main difference that I can see for you is SD6128 = 1/128 microstep max, and the SD5984 = 1/32 microstep max. Both are much more silent operation than the SD8825, and run nice and cool. Also both are digipot enabled. I tried using SD6128 at 1/128 microstepping. But to be honest it is massive overkill at the resolutions our mechanical side can actually maintain and I actually had missed steps. I think the missed steps were from the processor not being able to keep up with the step count at the high speed I was testing. Since the SD6128 are a $6 premium each… I would go with the SD5984 right now. They perform great in my initial testing.
Noise wise there is no difference between the two? The $6 premium is not my first concern… Can you 1/64 micro step the SD6128 and get a ‘best of both’ ? Certainly don’t want missed steps, had that on the mill I built, drove me crazy on super long projects (80hr machine jobs).
