Flying Electron wrote: > Between your information and a post I found on CNC zone at > http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91306 I think I got a > handle on how things are supposed to work together. > > Is the mesa 7I43 card the recommended card for EMC out of the mesa products? > It's the least expensive ($89), and it plugs into a parallel port. It has the least I/O of any of them, and also the slowest possible update rate, since all the data goes one byte at a time through the parallel port.
If you have the money to spend, then I'd get a PCI card - at least a 5i20 ($199), possibly a 5i23 ($229). They have an additional 24 I/Os, and can run at higher servo rates (may not be necessary, but hey - you might as well save some CPU time for other things) - Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
