Jon Elson wrote: > Sure, you could use the Pico Systems PPMC board set. It has encoder > counters, 16-bit > DACs to command the servo amps and digital I/O for home and limit > switches, etc. > The only special stuff you will need is a little interfacing to the > fault and enable signals > on the Glentek amps. I can advise on what you need there. >
That sounds great Jon. I'll head over to the Pico Systems Website and check out your stuff. > Geckos do not feed the position info back to the computer, so you can't > actually measure > the performance and accuracy of the machine. > > The basic PPMC setup is about $780, depending on options. EMC2 is free, > and can use > a relatively tame computer, 1 GHz Pentium with 256 MB of memory is plenty. > Your pricing seems fair enough. The computer I have for control is an AMD64 3700+ (2.2 GHz, 1 MB of L2 cash) with 2 gigs of ram, 250 gig hard drive, and an Nvidia 250meg video card. From what you say above, that should do it. ;-) Thanks Jon! David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users