Setting up the 5i25 or 6i25 with a 7i77 is definitly not turnkey unless you are intimatly familiar with how both hw and sw works.
compared to most windows solution that is up and running within a couple of hours. tuning and setting up and finding out howto with linuxcnc is a tremendous pain that takes weeks to months for the new user. On Aug 28, 2016 11:47, "andy pugh" <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 August 2016 at 09:12, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > > I've 2 CNC lathes sitting in storage waiting for computers to go with > > them. Actually 3 but the third still needs the electronics rebuilding. > > The hold-up is that Mach3 lathe will do some jobs but I'm not as > > confident it will be as productive as the mills are. ELS is a possible > > half way house, but I think these machines deserve some hardware that > > will use the encoders on their spindles, and for that I think the > > coprocessor approach is the best way forward, but the LinuxCNC options > > still need to become a little more mature? > > When you say "coprocessor" are you talking about things like > BeagleBone (remote CPU running LinuxCNC) or Mesa/Pico (FPGA running > high-speed realtime tasks)? > I think that for a servo system PnCConf setting up a Mesa 5i25/7i76 > system is _largely_ turnkey, but some configuration is likely to be > needed for the toolchanger simply because there is such a variation. > > -- > atp > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
