Wes S wrote: > I personally don't like open loop. I know you can use steppers and > encoders but I don't see the benefit there over servo motors. > > If I'm not totally off track, I understand EMC can take encoder > feedback. What boards are typically used? What drives are usually > used in servo apps? > There are a number of interface devices that can be used, take a look here (the EMC2 wiki under supported hardware) : http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?EMC2_Supported_Hardware
You can actually run a couple motors with step/direction drives and feed the encoder info back, all through the parallel port, but that is pretty limiting. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
