>> That is why I think that 5i25 card would do much better - less >> rewiring (actually You might get away with no rewiring at all) and >> there also is price difference. Plug it straight in pci slot and >> attach Your existing lpt cables to it. The only thing to do is sort >> out the firmware - most probably, You will need to tell Mesa's people, >> which exact pins are stepgen outputs, which pins are encoder inputs >> and they shall arrange the rest - AFAIK the tool for users to >> configure the 5i25 cards is not yet available. > > Very nice! Sounds absolutely perfect. Great price too! > > How many encoder counts per second does that card do?
The docs are over here http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/2.5/html/drivers/hostmot2.html they say "The encoder sample clock runs at 33 MHz on the PCI Anything I/O cards and 50 MHz on the 7i43." without the filtering-mode "the quadrature counter needs only 3 clocks to register a change" So a change can be recorded at 33MHz/3 = 11MHz, and there are two changes in one cycle, so in theory the max count-rate would be 5 MHz. AW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
