On 7/25/2014 5:50 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 25 July 2014 06:36:58 John Thornton did opine > And Gene did reply: >> Andy, what is this parallel port breakout for the 5i25? I need to do >> the exact same thing on my BP with a 5i25 7i77. >> >> JT > You can use a std parport breakout, a 26 pin IDC connector (plugged onto > the P2 connector along the top edge of the 5i25) on one end of a 26 wire > ribbon cable, with a std IDC DB-25 crimped on the other end of a few > inches of cable, and mount it in an empty cabinet card slot. Adjacent to > the 5i25 if you have a backplane slot to spare. Unforch, the ARK cases I > have, have only one slot, and the 5i25 uses it, so the extra port, when I > use it, is fed out thru a slot I machined in the plastic side panel, > hanging free. Ugly but usable. > That's pretty much what I have to do is to make a slot in my tiny case for DB-25 connector.
I assume the 7i78 step and direction card would be the best way to drive my stepper driven C axis? I have a Gecko 203v to run the stepper. JT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
