Hi Martin, We have retrofitted Mach Control onto two of the Cardinal Mills.
We removed the I/O board and Processor board and made our own Breakout board that drove the Stepper drivers via the ribbon cable. We included a small 3 Ph drive and replaced the belt drive with a spindle drive direct onto and above the spindle. It made a 21st century machine out of a 1992 unit. If you e-mail me direct I will have some photos of the end product. In retrospect I would use something like a Smooth Stepper and one of the spindle Pulse to analogue units available these days. The big concern initially was could we use the Stepper Drive's. The answer is yes and in fact we were impressed with the drive board and had no trouble getting them to function in the new configuration. Regards Graham i...@cadcam.co.nz -----Original Message----- From: Martin Pinkston [mailto:martinpinks...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 14 December 2009 3:47 p.m. To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] Sent e-mail to Cardinal Eng. Good evening group. Someone on here had mentioned that my little mill was from Cardinal Eng, and it is. So just out of curiousity I did a google search and found Cardinal Eng. And just for kicks I called the number just a few minutes ago and heard Roland's voice on the answering machine. So I left a message and also sent an e-mail. It will be interesting to talk to him and see what his take is on converting this mini mill over. I was looking at a conversion they were working on in 2005. And they were using EMC for the conversion. That is the most recent posting on their web site. www.cardinaleng.com That's all I got. Martin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4684 (20091213) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4684 (20091213) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
