A local campus has an EMCO PC Mill 50, which communicates over RS485 with a PC (running Win98, bleh!). I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience with EMCO machines. I'd like to get an idea of how difficult a retrofit with EMC would be.
To my eye, it appears that the stepper driver module takes a set of parallel signals - only a scope or probe will show the exact type. Other than the "motherboard", there is a PLC that communicates by RS485. If I could get the mill running again (insufficient poking-around time), I could sniff the serial traffic and build a more complete picture of what goes on. My plan is to come up with something where I disrupt as little as possible to make it function, to demonstrate the retrofit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
