Hi > Would they sell this bare bones?
Well, as far as I know yet, no. So I'd have to buy an unnecessary controller. > Since it wouldn't make much sense to pay for the control and then not use it. Right, the only good think would be that I could use the new mill immediately as a 3+2 axes mill and later on "upgrade" to 5 axes > If they want a sell, ask if they can sell it with a Simodrive 611U > instead of 611D, the 611U would take analog inputs and then emc2 would > have no issues making this work with mesa cards. I see. It sound like a good idea to try to avoid the latest highly integrated digital servo drivers. > Tell them what you try to do and see how far you can talk them out of > a complete machine. I would think they make more money on their > machine than the control and if they are a competent builder, they > should be able to sell a control-less machine with the digital drives > replaced by Siemens' analog drives. I'll talk about this with the sales guy on the next meeting. > Obviously i am applying an highly idealistic "Kunde ist Koenig" > thinking... The big problem right now is, the the economy crises is over and the manufacturers don't need to accommodate there customers. We just had a manufacturer sell a machine, we already agreed on buying after longer negotiations, to someone else (probably at a higher price), just while the documents were waiting to be sighed by the right person here. :-( See you Flo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
