Wow...that was a lot of stuff.... First of all I have to say that I am really impressed with what some of you guys have put on the web as projects. Kirk, I went to your web site and you tear into a machine like I tear into a locomotive. Your lathe project was impressive. Have you finished it yet ? Anyway; Each stepper motor has it's own board. And each board has it's own 40V supplied to drive the steppers. There are actually only 4 wires + a shielded "ground" wire. HOWEVER the motors still work just fine if the "ground" wire is not screwed to the back of the case. So I have to count that as just 4 wires.
At this point I have to re-think the conversion. Because, I have a couple of other priorities that need handled before I invest serious cash into re-fitting this mill. And at the top of the priority list is building a small machine/work shop in my back yard. Initially when I considered doing this conversion, I thought it might have been a little more doable than it seems to be turning out. I don't have any problem with putting in the time (during the winter). I do want to learn more about EMC and I would like to attend the conference this year. Here's a thought I had. I'm wondering why I can't replace the computer SW OS with EMC? In other use Centroids control box, but instead of using Centroids software to communicate with the control box through the serial port, use EMC. I know it would be like stepping back 20years for Linux, but I wonder if it would be possible to decompile Centroid's SW in order to get EMC what it needed to get talking to the big black box? I mean, the SW is 20+ years old, could it be that difficult ? Now, in light of that last question, I first have to say, YES, I'm guessing that it would be very for me. I don't know about the rest of you.... ;-} Just a thought. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
