On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Alex Joni <alex.j...@robcon.ro> wrote:

>
> > Sam,
> >
> > How are you getting LinuxCNC to monitor and log Mach's processes?
> >
>
> Sam explained that in his first email:
>
> There's a second LinuxCNC machine with a 7i80 attached
> (http://www.mesanet.com/pdf/parallel/7i80dbman.pdf) - the 7i80 is a FPGA
> card with ethernet connection to LinuxCNC.
> The 7i80 has encoder counters set up to read/count step/dir signals.
>
> The Mach PC (or LinuxCNC PC1) outputs step/dir which are connected to the
> encoder counters on the 7i80 and end up to LinuxCNC2. Quite a brilliant
> idea/setup.
> Since it's hardware counters on the 7i80, you can trust them pretty much.
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>


Alex,

I must have glossed over that part, and I'm not familiar with the 7i80
board.  That's a pretty slick setup.

Mark
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