Hello,
I have a 'desktop' mill and lathe (both Sherline), and I am using a parallel BOB and printer ports to run them. Of course one of them just gave up (PCI printer card), I do have a spare but they are harder to come by, besides, the setup is not really ideal?
What would be the best way to replace the BOB-LPT stuff? (these things are desktop CNC machines, I am playing/learning for fun, I am not trying to reliably machine F22 raptor jet engine parts, I am mostly turning stock into scrap).
I see some cards that are in the $50 etc range, and there are the ones that use ether/cat5 connections (are 'regular' ethernet cards used with those?)
I am looking at a lathe that has 2 steppers, and it has a quadrature encoder, the mill has 3 steppers, and planning on adding a quadrature encoder).
thanks, Ron _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
