Kirk Wallace <kwallace@...> writes: > > On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 11:25 -0400, Dave wrote: > > On 4/10/2012 11:11 AM, gene heskett wrote: > > > there is no source > > > > > of power on that side of the interface in the G540 > > <...> > > practical with the existing design. I was thinking that some simple > > pull up resistors on the G540 side would do the trick, and that > > Geckodrive might have missed that, but with no pull up power source.. > > that isn't practical. > > > > If the LPT port can be put into EPP mode, there seems to be no issue. > > > > Dave > > Dan from the DIY-CNC list has loaned a G540 to me (it might be here > Wed.). I plan to investigate this pull-up issue and document it, maybe > on the wiki. One of my hopes is to come up with a "just works" type of > solution. Many of us on this list understand electronics and software > enough to not think twice about adding a resistor here, or a bit check > there, but in the real world of CNC, many people don't want to or can't > get that deeply into the machine's workings. They just want something > they can buy and it just works. LinuxCNC might become more popular if it > had more "just works". > <...> >
[Sorry if this message gets duplicated. I'm still having trouble straightening out my SourceForge connection.] Just for grins, has anyone thought to ask Mariss, for example via the GeckoDrive Yahoo Group? It's been some years, but the last time I asked him a question about some formulas that appear in documentation on the GeckoDrive website, he replied promptly. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
