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    No I had not seen that video. Thank you for sharing. If you guys would believe there are 8 bit boards that are selling for over $100 today. Boards like the Panucatt Azteeg X3 Pro. I am using extra stepper drivers but I will never use most of the features that set that duet 2 and 3 at their price point. Tool changers are for corexy and do not translate so well to reprap. But if there is one thing we can all be absolutely sure of it is that this will NOT be the last configuration of this printer. And if I am anything less than utterly impressed with the SKR 1.3 I will change it. But I choose my parts by specs. And the ~$20 SKR 1.3 has very similar specs to all the more expensive controllers. I think we all just need to be able to better understand what specs are and how they should apply to our selections. Ya know? The best specs isn't always the best specs. Sometimes the best specs are what is right for what you are doing. Even thou there are better specs out there if you will never take advantage of them then you have built a mismatched printer. And that is just not what I am all about. For me and all that I do and build Form Follows Function. I strictly adhere to this golden rule of building and I think my results have shown as much. The $1000 rails started as cheap ebay rails. They met the specs but when I got them they were trash. I never ran them and tried some others and then went with the genuine HIWINS. Hopefully the control solution wont go the same way, but I am not against 3,4 or even $500 spent on a control solution if that is what it takes. I am already somewhere between $2 and $3k into this machine since and including it's purchase at the start of 2017. I have no problems putting money into it. But it needs to be the right part. Not just the most expensive or the part with the most features that do not apply to what I am building. With that said, you guys are scaring me. The SKR 1.3 is a 32 bit board for $22 in a sea of other like boards for over $100. Well this STARTED as a rework on a budget, anyways.
    Last edited by AutoWiz; 11-09-2019 at 12:18 PM.

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