On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:37:14 -0400, you wrote: >Hello list >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 and if so how do we go about aquiring >the necessary drivers and control gear assuming the sevos themselves are >useable? Big ask I know, but I only have stepper expeience and am way out of >my depth here.
Hi Aaron - if the machine has a driver problem, changing the controller to LinuxCNC isn't going to fix it. You will need to change the drives to suit whatever controller you choose. If you have a working AXYZ controller but bad drives, it's going to be cheaper, and far less learning curve/time to replace the drives and stick with AXYZ, rather than replace the drives and go LinuxCNC! Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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