I have been working on my CNC milling machine and tested the new stepper motor controllers last Friday 13th. Brand new controller, power supply made of a large toroidal transformer, large diode bridge and lots of parallel capacitors made a very strong 42 volt. http://www.omc-stepperonline.com/4-axis-tb6600-cnc-stepper-motor-driver-controller-board-for-cnc-router-milling-p-309.html After the smoke cleared... I investigated the source of the problem. This was not a fault I made in wiring, nope... The exploded capacitors were 220uF/16 Volt types parallel to the power supply of 42 volt... Not a real surprise that they did not last 2 seconds. I do not think it is very hard to build a good CNC stepper board, but some engineers or buying departments still struggle with the basics like capacitor voltage specification. After removing the exploded capacitors we managed to get the motor controller working without problems (without the caps) The CNC machine now moves all Axis
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