Hi, Apologies if this has been asked before.
My computer knowledge is great, electronics knowledge is average and my CAM knowledge is poor. I have a CNC6040 (for around 5 years it has been gathering dust and spider-webs in the shed) it has the VFD and the water-cooled spindle. Back in the day the first thing I did with the 6040 is replace the drivers with a G540. I had LinuxCNC running on an old PC with a parallel port, I could move the steppers, I never actually routed anything. Fast forward to today and I want to get this thing running properly but so much has changed. I just ordered a Terasic Atlas-SoC from Mouser and it should arrive today (Initially I actually didn't realise there was a version without the ARM SoC and I ordered a DE0-Nano from Adafruit, not really cost effective for me to return it from AU to US). I also have a BBB with a Necitec Panther cape. Should I use the Terasic, also I see the DE0-Nano_DB25, do I need that with the G540, if I do, is it possible to have the board made up with the components installed (I was thinking of using jumper wires from the Terasic directly to a DB25)? Is my understanding correct, I install machinekit on the Terasic, it's headless, so I install something else on to a PC with a GUI and use this to send the gcode to the Terasic? I'm thinking I would want a pendant attached to the Terasic, I don't want to spend more that $100 on this, is there something I can get online that will work on machinekit? How do I handle the spindle/VFD (HY01D523B) and pump in machinekit? I probably want to add a touch off late and/or limit switches how to do that in machinekit? >From my notes the G540 has the extra capacity to handle the above: IEC power outlet for one relay output for the spindle pump. 2-pole socket for the other relay output. This would just be the switched relay contacts (Unpowered). You could use this for switching the FWD contacts of the VFD etc. Four G540 inputs bought out to a DB-9 socket. Would could then wire these to limit switches etc. Three G540 VFD outputs would be bought out to a DB9 plug. You could use this to control the speed of your VFD. 2nd parallel port cable connector for expansion at a later date. Sorry about all the questions. Thanks. Richard -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
