Is this a good stepper driver?

[jahn]

Is this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CNC-3-axis-Stepper-Motor-Driver-Board-Controller-TB6560-/120888848353?_trksid=p4340.m444&_trkparms=algo%3DCRX%26its%3DC%252BS%26itu%3DSI%252BUA%252BLM%252BLA%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D7926853474234326231#ht_2904wt_1185
possible to be used with Shapeoko?

[northbear]

As I said in another post, I did a couple of web searches on it and have some concerns based on what I found.

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/general_e ... inese.html

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/stepper_m ... river.html


Link back to my post on another thread.
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9#p321


Please post back here if you decide to get it as it look like a good price if it is reliable!

[Improbable Construct]

I picked up this driver and have been using it for a few weeks. It came with minimal documentation but it was easy to get up and running. I am using the 4th axis to drive the secondary motor on the Y axis. I will report back if I have any troubles.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CNC-Router-Mill ... 026wt_1185

[lasershark1]

Are you using grbl? How are you getting grbl to send the signals for the Y axis to the other driver? Forgive the noob question - it may be easy for all I know, but somehow grbl would need to be aware of it, and the grbl documentation only menions 3 axises...

[Improbable Construct]

lasershark1,

I am using Mach3 to control my ShapeOko. Mach3 lets you slave an axis to another axis. It made it easy to add the extra Y axis motor. Mach3 is a more expensive option but it works great and I plan to build a larger CNC router in the future and the Mach3 will transfer over.

[northbear]

I picked up this driver and have been using it for a few weeks. It came with minimal documentation but it was easy to get up and running. I am using the 4th axis to drive the secondary motor on the Y axis. I will report back if I have any troubles.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CNC-Router-Mill ... 026wt_1185

This looks like a different brand driver using the same chipset as the original poster correct? The one you linked to looks to have a very nice aluminium case!