On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:04 +0300, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > Hello! > > > > You can use any kind of motor for any joint on the machine. You can > > also use more than one type of hardware, so for instance you could have > > a Pico Systems card on one parallel port, use a second parallel port > > directly, and use a PCI plug-in Mesa card, all at once. > > I am confused and I would like to know, where can I find more detailed > information on this matter. > I am concerned, how do I configure EMC to work with Mesa card for > servo control on 2 axis and use parallel port to output step/dir > signals time for remaining 3 axis at the same. > > Has anyone ever attempted (and succeeded) with this approach? > > with best regards, > Viesturs Lācis > It looks like a m5i20 will do this nicely. Of course it needs the pwm to analog card also unless you use a pwm servo amp but still it is a pretty simple setup.
Check the wiki under HostMot2. Good luck. Dave > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
