Greetings all; I finally found a pix of the controller front panel, and it turns out that that box does include the vfd, so I'll either have to by oe of the clones for 70 and change, or just buy it now, and buy the 18 and change set of er-11 collets since it only comes with a 6mm.
That then is a single parport drive cable. And more than likely a std bob inside the controller. Does the 5i25 have a firmware to drive it? For better control I'd druther use the 5i25<->7i76 like I'm making for the G0704. I don't see any limit/home switches. It has 5 sockets on the back, assume one per axis and one to drive the spindle, so there is no facilities to hook up home and limits till I invent them as theres no plugs for such on that control box. I wonder how they control the water pump? This guy seems to think it can only be used with a 32 bit windows running Mach3, which he doesn't sell. Chuckle. Does the mach guy spread it that deep about linuxcnc? So I'm assuming some signal re-routing will be required. It also comes with a usb based remote control, so I may be asking for some adaptation how to's on that at some point, hopefully someone else has cut a path thru that jungle before me. What I have in mind will need more than a std bob on the 5i25's p2 has for inputs, but if I can hack up my own bob thats mostly inputs, then hal can handle programming the p2 plug (I think, iirc any un-dedicated pins can be either direction on the 5i25.) This might be educational as I have only a faint clue how it controls the spindle (and a faint hint that the direction reversal might be only from the 3 position switch on the front panel, possibly indicating the spindle is 100% manual control? That would be a "what a revolting development that is" discovery. Fixable of course. I think I'll likely find out... We'll see what sort of docs it comes with. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
