Hello List! In the recent few days i began to reanimate my old milling machine (2,5-axis). The short-term plan for the hardware is to mount reference switches, coolant pump and a vacuum desk to it. On the software side, i want to get rid of the MS-DOS based crappy program which came with the stepper card and replace it with linuxcnc.
Unfortunately I don't have a Step-Direction based card installed (I plan to build a new one based on TB6560 or A3977, but that is rather a long term goal). In the mean time, i want to use my old card (EMIS SMC-800), which cannot be driven directly by linuxcnc. After some research, I found out, that 6(!) years ago, someone wrote a HAL Driver for another card which works quite in same way. ( see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00010.html ) My card uses two bits per phase to select current, two to select direction for each phase and two to select axis. The manual can be found here: http://www.produktinfo.conrad.com/datenblaetter/950000-974999/967599-an-01-en-SMC_800_Schrittmotor_Karte.pdf Signals are described on page 11. Since I am all new in using HAL, RT-Linux and EMC (but not linux) maybe someone can help me to find a starting point? @ Mr Paul Fox: If you are reading this, I would be very happy if you could share your driver to me! greetings from Vienna, Alexander Grill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
