>On the other hand if your servo drives require a +/- 10VDC analog input then >it is hard to beat this combination in my opinion: a Pico >Systems PPMC >motherboard with a DAC, ENC, and DIO running off of an Intel D510MO. >I am delighted with mine.
The above looks like the way to go for me. I have the old servo dynamics analog cards which I can reuse. (I wanted to use the UHU cards we built up but I'll keep that for the next project) My current mill only energises the drives when in Run or Do One mode. All other times the drives are off. What must happen with manual feed is the actual positions need to be updated so when you put it back into Run mode the drives don't shoot off to the last position. (PS I have a manual encoder on my CNC lathe but it's no replacement for hand wheels.) Both my lathe and current mill have encoders on the motor and on the table for each axis. If I can do the above, then you will have another EMC contributor. The only other thing is, we have a lot of CAD software in XP and I would like to be able to have EMC2 and XP running at the same time. Often when modifying a one off part, we use the hand wheels and then find the engineer left a measurement off the PDF drawing. We need to be able to quickly load the DXF and do the measurement to continue. Thanks Wallace ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
