Good grief!! After some fuss the machine actually booted. Shows Ubuntu and emc 2.2. !! Any ideas of dates? Is there a way to invoke a term on older systems? Now to get a mouse on the system. System appears to know date but hours off on time. No internet attached yet.
Dave > On Mar 28, 2025, at 1:18 PM, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On 3/28/25 10:43, Sam Sokolik wrote: >> It is still in the docs.. >> >> https://linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/drivers/servo-to-go.html >> >> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM Dave Engvall <dengv...@charter.net> wrote: >> >>> Is there any support for the stg card do I own an orphan? > > it does look like it is, the link to the stg site now hits what looks like an > Indonesian casino site with what we in broadcasting would call T&A when the > weather girl was talking about the forecast., on the front page . > > The LINUXCNC docs show what would be a very good card if it was remade to fit > modern PCI-like busses. But keep in mind the note about later model ATX > power supplies don't run the DAC's as variables. On the pi, an ISA buss > could probably be simulated with gpio but that's beyond my pay grade at 90 yo. > > On my pi driven Sheldon lathe, I am quite happy with the 3 wire SPI buss > driving a 7i90HD, but that also needed 3 7i42TA buffer cards to isolate the > 7i90HD from the ringing as the 7i90HD's I/O is directly connected to the 3 > volt FPGA. That gives a total of 72 I/O pins but w/o the ADC's. Single point > grounding is a must do. Currently the motors are 3 phase closed loop > stepper/servo's, which do precisely what the TP tells them to do. No loss of > "home" for any reason has occurred since installing them. The drivers have > an output if they do lose home, shuts the whole thing down in about a > millisecond, but has never happened while making hot swarf. > > Dave > > Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. > > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
