Kirk Thank You for the fast responce. This information looks great. Thanks again Ron
--- On Sun, 1/2/11, Kirk Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kirk Wallace <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Lathe emc2 installation help To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, January 2, 2011, 3:28 PM On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 12:37 -0800, Rondal Nannie wrote: > Hello I am new at this so...also part of New Years resolution to get > this running, I want to view the installation of lathe (previously a > emco 5) to the computer. The emco boards and motors were questionable > so new motors and driver Board were installed (not Emco). The only > thing that is emco still is the spindle which I figured that I could > just run that by turning it on and it has a rheostat for variable > speed. I tried to run this a few years ago but no time and the > computer was pretty slow and I would get a lot of errors/ faults, > lagging pretty bad. I have a newer computer now and emc2 installed but > I can not remember if I used a printer port as the 25 pin connection > to drive the x z axis motors or if I had to install a video card 9 pin > to run x z axis. I installed a 9 pin video card in the older computer > but like I said, I cant remember if it was used to send the signal to > the x,z axis motors. Any help would be great. Thanks in > advance Ron The DB25 connector on the _old_ video cards is just a standard parallel port. You can use any DB25 parallel port with EMC2. You will need to find the number that represents the address for the parallel port you want to use. Generally, the motherboard port is "0x0378", but could also be "0x0278" or "0x03BC". You may need to enable the motherboard port in the BIOS settings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_port http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/hal_drivers.html Some addresses for PCI add-on parallel ports are in the PC BIOS area and may look like "0x24A0". You will need to use "lspci -v" to find the address, as shown here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?NetMos Once you have the parallel port sorted out, you can assign signals that control your machine by assigning them to various pins on the parallel port. You can do this by editing the .hal file for your configuration (in /home/my_username/emc2/configs) or use Stepconfig: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/config_stepconf.html More is in the Documentation area: http://www.linuxcnc.org/content/view/5/5/lang,english/ Your spindle may be controlled by EMC2 also. After you get your axes running, it may be worth while to look into the options for connecting your speed controller to EMC2. Axis limit and home switches are handy too. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
