On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 07:15 -0700, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Jan de Kruyf wrote: ... snip > > Quite correct, not until you would like to see something running / use LCNC > > to actually retrofit a machine. > > > > On the one side you need a modern drive interface for a high-speed machine > > (the market this development > > is aimed at)
> Actually I rather doubt this. Can you explain why this would be? > > I directly connected PCI/PCIE card can have much better latency than any of > the serially connected drives (loop rates in the 100s of KHz are possible (we > are doing this now) At first I thought the Sercos market was beyond the LinuxCNC market by quite a bit, so I searched Sercos on eBay and there are plenty of used Sercos I and II PLC's, drives and PCI cards in the low hundreds of US dollars. I suspect machines using Sercos drives, waiting to be converted, will be coming to the list in the not too distant future, if LinuxCNC can convince owners that it is worthy of a $10,000+ well used machine. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
