On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 11:45 -0400, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: > Dave, > > Thanks for the suggestions. Problem with the board the way > it is, is the DB25 connectors are on opposite sides of the board. A > much better design would have had the DB 25 connectors mounted on the > same side, so that you or I could mount the board to the control box > case, and have the cables from both the computer and the MPG connect > to the board from outside the control box. As it is, there's > practically no easy way to mount the damn thing and make for a clean > cable hookup. Here's a picture of the thing: > > <http://www.cnc4pc.com/Store/osc/product_info.php?cPath=40&products_id=159> > > Mark
It might be easy enough to make your own buffer board. It just needs one or two 74xx24x buffer chips, voltage regulator (maybe), a few capacitors, some pull-up resistors, and instead of DB-25's, some 26 pin dual row connectors, all on a perfboard. You may be able to piggy back the board onto a parallel port PCI card, or build it on a PCI perfboard with a short ribbon cable(s) to the parallel port card. You would need enough PCI slots, but I don't carry my CNC around with me on a key chain, so I tend to use ATX motherboards with plenty of slots. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
