On Sunday 21 July 2019 15:27:17 Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Sunday 21 July 2019 13:20:37 andy pugh wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 21:47, Pedro Grijalva
> > <[email protected]>
>
> wrote:
> > > Hi I'Interested on run Linuxcnc on RP4
> > > can you share the steps ?
> >
> > I have put the SD card image _temporarily_ here:
> > http://www.linuxcnc.org/dists/buster/2.8-uspace/
> >
> > Note that this is a run-in-place setup, as the debian packaging
> > isn't set up quite right for Raspberry Pi.
> > This means that you need to type this at the command-line to run it.
> > (and yes, it really is dot space dot slash)
> > . ./linuxcnc-dev/scripts/rip-environment
> > linuxcnc
> >
> > (or latency-test to run the latency test)
> >
> > Please only download this if you have a Pi4 and genuinely want to
> > experiment, for the sake of the web site bandwith limits.
>
> I am dl'ing it, and will get a pi4, and whatever card seems to be the
> correct interface. Someone mentioned the 7i76E? but I've doubts it can
> what I am doing.
>
> To dup what I am doing with the 7i90HD and a stack of 7i42TA's, I'll
> need 3 encoders, two stepgens, a pwm with direction for the vfd, two
> in's for homes, and several outs. I don't think the 7i76D's I have can
> supply the 2nd and 3rd encoders for the jog dials.
>
> So what do I use?
>
> A 7i90 with an ethernet connector might work, but what it has is
> rs422, and likely too slow at 10 megabits. OTOH, if it can do spi at
> 50 megabits...  Actually I am writing at 42Mb and reading at 25Mb, and
> thats working fairly well under stretch right now.
>
Question for PCW.

That appears to be the 7i80 but it comes in 2 model numbers.  So what 
makes the -25 worth $20 more than the -16 version? Both would appear to 
need the 7i42TA's if theres any noise, so would likely interchange with 
the 7i90HD.

> Cheers, Gene Heskett


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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