Dig into the control panel on the mill. It may be an RS232 device. That's what
I found on the panel on the Anilam Crusader M system which was on my mill made
in 1990. I had plans to connect the panel to a serial port and fit an LCD in
place of the CRT in the original control box, but someone wanted to give me
money for the panel... Now I have a nice 800x600 LCD touch screen with Linux
drivers for the digitizer. That will fit in the old control box, with room
beneath for an e-stop button and other things.
From: John Thornton <j...@gnipsel.com>
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Replacing Fanuc controller on Johnford VMC-500 mill
Are your drives velocity input +-10vdv input?
You will need a pointing device to start LinuxCNC AFAIK unless you have
it start up when you boot the machine. Dunno what the PC will do without
a pointing device now a days. Axis has the most AFAIK keyboard shortcuts
of all the GUI's.
JT
On 4/8/2016 4:50 PM, Ormund Williams wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have an old (1994) Johnford 3 axis mill (VMC-500) with a failing
> controller, a FANUC series 0-M, and a A06B-6058-H334 servo amplifier.
>
> First question: is it possible to connect LinuxCNC to these servo
> amplifiers?
>
> Is a more keyboard focused GUI available, so I don't have to add a
> mouse or other pointing device?
>
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