I gave the "Motor tuning" my best shot along
with trying the various Driver Board settings.
Things did Not look Great...
I found the fastest stepping speed was best
but still problematic.
Because the JY5800 CNC controller had issues
with the Parallel port function BUT still workd
Offline, I wanted to keep it in tact and mostly
to use it to drive the Spindle motor and cooling
system.
Where the JY5800 controller had the stepper
motors running quietly and the motion was solid
and repeatable, the RATTM MOTOR 4 Axis TB6560
controller was running as one reviewer had claimed:
"Brian W (2 stars)
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2021
Verified Purchase
I've a cnc machine at home and was looking to
change out the controller board in hopes to use
Mach3 instead of the basic onboard programming.
I use a UC100 controller at the parallel port.
I bought this because I used to have an older
Chinese 3 axis board with the same driver, and
it work well for as cheap as it was then.
This board, while seemingly functional, didn't
perform well at all. I tested each port with
several different stepper motors or different
sizes, at different supplied voltages, with
different current and decay settings and at full
/ microstepping. All performed pretty poorly.
The motors were always slow, often jittery.
The torque was there, but the rotation was not
stable. And the noise was horrid. They were LOUD.
Despite the board performing poorly, the Seller
has great service. The part was shipped sooner
and arrived way faster than originally estimated.
Return policy was fair. I'd buy from them again,
just not this particular product."
Links where this board is available:
Seeing I take most reviews with a great deal
of skepticism, I gave this board a good shot.
I put the JY5800 controller back together and
connected the spindle to make some chips!
I ran a few Mach3 Wizard programs and as I
suspected, there are too many missed steps
to be accurate or repeatable.
The biggest problem is the Y axis.
I suspect the mass of the Y axis
is the problem and smaller machines may work ok.
The sad thing is this board uses the same
driver chips as the JY5300 and JY5800 controllers.
So it looks like a design flaw of this board.
Let me know if you have this board working OK.
DW
