Hello,
I'm a new shopbot owner who knows zero about CNC machining or little about computers -but I'm trying to learn.About 6 months ago I bought a working shopbot PRT 48"x 96" and then stored away until last week.I bought the vcarve pro software and then proceeded to power up the shopbot..... only to find that all but one of the stepper motors are deficient, making noises and don't revolve as they should.Called
shopbot, who were very helpful and who told me I probably need a new control board and suggested a 4G board-at a cost of $1500....which is a bit outside of my budget to be honest .
Does anyone out there have a used and working control board that would fit my machine (circa 2001 vintage) or even the upgraded board-to sell me?
Any advice or help would be gratefully appreciated-I just want to get this machine working and start to learn how to use it.
Thanks for reading my post.
Lyndon.