Yes, it's driving convemtional steppers, doubt that it's better but it's better than scrapping a working box. I have been driving it with TurboCNC but the old laptop I was using died taking the disk and all my setup info with it. All my other machines are conventional step/direction and I have been using EMC2 for a few years with them so simply want to bring the old box back up with EMC2 instead of reverting back to TurboCNC (although it is a good basic program in its own right).
The driver itself is the one that originally came as standard with Taig mills before they switched to step/direction ones. There is a conversion board available to allow step/direction input, but I don't see the point as I believe EMC2 will handle the phase style once set up properly. Cheers, Mark On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:06:45 +0100 "Ian W. Wright" <[email protected]> wrote: > Lawrence, > > Is this driving conventional steppers or something > different. Is it a better system than microstepping? > > Ian > > On 28/04/2011 02:59, Lawrence Glaister wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > I am not sure what you are referring to by the term phase drive. > > I use my mill and lathe with stepgen set to stepping type 2 which is > > quadrature drive ( drive waveform is identical to a quadrature encoder ) > > Sometimes this mode and some of the higher stepping type modes get > > referred to as phase drive. > > If you need sample configs for lathe and or mill with quadrature drive, > > drop me an email and I will send them along. There are very few changes > > required to the sample stepper files... changing the stepping type, and > > renamimg the connections from step/dir to something like phaseA/phaseB. > > cheers > > Lawrence > > > > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 09:33 +0900, Mark Thomas wrote: > >> A quick question. I have EMC2 controlling 3 different machines through > >> step/direction drivers I also have an older phase driver which is > >> connected to a small lathe using TurboCNC I believe I have read that EMC2 > >> will indeed work with phase drives but am having a hard time finding info. > >> Any ideas on where to start? > >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software > The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network > management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial > acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Mark Thomas <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
