To the best of my knowledge it has always been this way. (My first 5i25 was bought in 2012.)
Todd Zuercher P. Graham Dunn Inc. 630 Henry Street Dalton, Ohio 44618 Phone: (330)828-2105ext. 2031 -----Original Message----- From: Gene Heskett <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 1:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Need a power signal independent of linuxcnc. On Thursday 12 December 2019 08:53:10 Todd Zuercher wrote: > You can not set the 5i25 to supply power to an ordinary breakout board > made for a parallel port, because the pins used for suppling the power > are used as grounds and are (usually ) all tied together on the > breakout. (You'd short the 5v rail of your PC through the 5i25.) > > But there are separate jumpers on the 5i25 for setting 5v power for > each port. So you can power either one separately or from the 5i25. > (see pg 2 of the manual for the 5i25) > Aha! I was not aware of that. Is that a recent change? I am not sure its mentioned in the printouts I have done, which are several years old now. And maybe my boards are older? This will certainly take some exploration. Thank you Todd. 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
