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With unipolar drives, the center taps are both connected to the power supply positive (usually), and the ends of the coils are switched in sequence to produce motion. See figures 3.3 and 3.9 in the following link for an electrical diagram

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The Sherline driver is unipolar, Geckos are bipolar. I'm not sure why Sherline has the center taps hooked together on their setup and still has the 4 field wires as well in the 5 pin connector, what kind of setup is that? see this link and then click on the spec sheet tab below the connector diagram to see the wire colors on the motor.

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The female connector from the Gecko drive simply uses four of the six pins to give the desired (half winding for me) configuration.ДЇor the motor side cable I'll convert the 5 pin DIN to a 6 pin DIN so I can seperate the center taps and probably use the center taps for half winding mode so I can leave it full current for the CNC mill but I'll either have to change my sherline controller plug to a 6 pin with the center taps tied together inside the sherline controller side of the plug or make a short adapter cable with a 6 to 5 pin DIN with the center tap tied together which is the it's wired right now so I can connect it back to the sherline controller, I want to be able to use it with either the sherline controller for my manual milling machine or my milling machine with the geckos by simply removing the adapter plug. My solution to a very similar problem (converting from Sherline's P/N 8760 driver to Gecko 251's) was to change the five pin DIN connectors to six pin connectors, (they're about 1$ each at digikey) separating the two center tap wires on the male motor connector, but leaving them connected on the female end from the Sherline controller. If you haven't already done so, look at the excellent 'stepmotor basics' article on the geckodrive website for pros and cons of each. Your options are to use either half winding or full winding. Secondly, 'parallel' configuration doesn't work on six wire motors because the two halves of each winding will run in opposite directions to each other.

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The unit looks nice, and the VCarve Pro software like you pointed out is great and works well with the DeskCNC card.I don't think you can do it without changing the connector, because even with the full winding configuration you are shorting the two windings together, which I don't think you can do on a bipolar drive. The table is drilled and tapped every 1' for 1/4-20 screws or you have enough clearance to put a wood table on top.

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The Trend has enough power to almost make it as a full size router. I like the 12x24 router table size, and he puts a Trend T4 trim router motor spindle on for only $75 more. It worked pretty well but I really wanted a router instead and did not feel like building one from scratch. I had a Mill-Drill converted to CNC with steppers and the DeskCNC controller board and Geckos driving. I am looking for a slightly larger work evnelope however. All I ever do is load the NC straight from Aspire, zero the machine and hit go. I like the Vectric software combined with the DeskCNC. I just check when the estimated finish time is and come back then. I d a lot of VCarve stuff on the mill in wood or plastic but I have never pushed the speed. Would I buy another one? I will let you know when the control software gets updated, perhaps in a week or so.

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I like the DeskCNC control system as it is not dependant on the computer and the parallel port to control your CNC, but a serial or USB port which is more forgiving. I am assuming they have a crew building the machines, but no one seems to be checking them before they get shipped out.Д«ut once you get the machine repaired, de-bugged and running it seems to do fine. The machine itself is pretty well designed, a couple of minor details need to be re-thought. To get the VCarving done right now I have slowed the machine down and I'm hoping the programmer has a new version for me to try soon. Seems to be two issues, one the machine is overrated as to actual real speeds, (but still within a very useable range) and two the control program needed some tweaking to handle the VCarve software or carving small detail in general.

They have stopped blaming the customer and now are addressing the real problems. Well, After much back and forth with Fred and then getting on IM Services private forum, and finding out I am not the only one having problems with the 12x24 Router.

I do remeber at the time Fred telling me the power supply was marginal on the mill with the fourth axis. I use the IMService system on my Sherline lathe and router and am quite happy with it. I am considering buying one of these units. Rscconrad wrote:Was this issue ever resolved?

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