I have been using an MKS Sbase for sometime now. Any reason to look at another supported board for a new build?
This will be connected to external steppers and a RECI W4 100W Co2. Looking for stability and engraving speed.
I have been using an MKS Sbase for sometime now. Any reason to look at another supported board for a new build?
This will be connected to external steppers and a RECI W4 100W Co2. Looking for stability and engraving speed.
There is no big difference between the compatible boards.
Unfortunately the cheaper MKS boards w/o stepper drivers (like GEN, SGEN) do not work with Grbl-LPC. The DLC may eventually work, as step and dir pins are on one port, but was never tested.
I could recommend the Cohesion3D Remix or Mini boards (which doesn’t have stepper drivers), but it seems they are not available anymore.
As I understand it, currently GRBL for ESP32 is not as fast at engraving as GRBL-LPC?
The MKS Sbase does have connectors for external steppers which is what I have been doing. I was just curious on some of the quality concerns others have expressed. I have not had much issues, but I have not used it in a production setting.
I don’t have much experience with GRBL-ESP32, I just tested that it works with LW4.
I am using an MKS SBase V1.3 in my K40 and never had problems, but I’m using it only occationally.
I only now noticed the PIN mapping limitations here:
Just worth noting for the next person who sees “GRBL-LPC Supported boards” that SKR 1.3 and 1.4 are not supported and won’t be supported.
If you want to run a grbl variant on the SKR 1.3 or 1.4 boards, this is supported by grblHAL.
For more information, see the grblHAL wiki: