On 21 April 2013 18:37, aaron moore <aaronmo...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> I work part time at Falmouth University where they have a £70,000 Pacer CNC > router that has gone wrong for the 2nd time in a year. Apparently the drivers > have a design fault and are now obselete. Pacer are happy to fix them for > £1000 a time but will not upgrade the machine. Does any one know if LinuxCNC > can be used on such a large servo set up LinuxCNC doesn't "know" how big the machine is, there should be no problems due to that. By "drivers" you presumably mean the motor controllers? Do you know anything about the motors, and what type of feedback they use? Do you have any idea what power rating the motors are? -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
