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Hi

I am building my own kit up. I still dont have Tiny G or much of a clue. I am just spending money haha.

are B and C motors what looks like unpopulated JP8 and JP9. which are withoutout motor drivers usable in the liteplacer setup. or dose some other function mean them ports are not usable.

If you modify the software is it possible to use them or is the function used for something else in lite placer hardware, I guess I need to buy to standard stepper motor drives and wire them to JP8 and JP9.

I am adding commercial feeders, infact it will be the next thing i order before the metal work and they are not cheap so I guess I will be very much committed to adding a 5th axis and plunger (maybe a 6th axis as plunge)

I will start to look into liteplacer software when tinyg arrives. How ready is the softwares communications protocol to control the B and C axis. Might it be easyer to implement another comport for my feeder advance hardware and not use TinyG.

Sorry so many questions. I can hardly sleep at night anymore haha, I will get this working for sure.

I haven't seen much about B and C.

> Might it be easyer to implement another comport for my feeder advance hardware and not use TinyG.

I would think so. You want to spend the effort in your feeders, not getting the communication going. You would need to add some hardware anyway, so you might not save that much money for doing it all with TinyG anyway. I think going for a tested and supported system saves a lot of head scratching.

I was thinking before of using Microchip DSP motor control development sets via USB comport. But this will be much more expensive and then also involve C code too. if I can control B and C it will be less hardware.

I just got the motors today. Fingers crossed for TinyG on monday. I have no machine but maybe I can spin the C and D axis in advance of materials arriving

I am already starting to read Tiny G manuals and your software. I need a new laptop with higher than XP before I can compile. I am starting to think I will grasp it easy.

If anyone else has done this or is doing it please save me the job.