On Thursday 05 November 2015 21:55:00 MC Cason wrote: > Gene, > > I uploaded some pictures to Flickr, to show you how I have mine > done: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/46689581@N03/albums/72157660780465122 > Neat. But I'll need to come up with a more compact mounting for a bunch of them to run a tool changer. Perf-board likely will be about ideal but I'll need to find space on that size of perf-board for at least a 5 pack of those. I can still conserve I/O pins on a 5i25 by useing 3 bits as an address generator and 3 more for enable/step/dir. I don't see more than one motor moving at a time, but with conventional wiring, a 5 motor setup is 15 output pins. I think I can beat that down to 6 if only one motor at a time is to be moving. 3 to address which motor gets the signals, and 3 for enable,dir,step. All dir and step can be shared, but the 3 bit address only enables the one addressed.
But I'm going to be out of pocket for a bit, tomorrow I get the brakes redone on my GMC, If amazon manages to deliver Saturday, I'll be busy putting our local AM'er back on the air at full power. Monday I am scheduled for a pair of saddle block shots in whats left of my back, and if amazon doesn't deliver till Monday, I'll have to see if I can finish that transmitter after I get back from the shots. Might not be able to pull that off till after the shots have taken effect. I was informed I'd need a driver. Last time I drove myself home. But that was 2 years ago. As a friend was fond of saying, I'm not the man I once was, even once. ;-) Thanks, MC Cason. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
