On Sunday 13 March 2016 01:27:46 Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > To buy a few year old computer is another cheap option. > > > I have posted another video about building pc for LinuxCNC > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuBySmg2e3Y > > > > Jim > > Yes, I am running my G0704 with a Dell Dimension 745, off lease that is stacking up on the dealer shelves, got it sans drive and winders license for $140, expect cheaper still where the tradein shelves are over flowing. 4Gb of dram, a dual core intel cpu running at about 3GHz, excellent low profile machine. His keeping of the drive and the winderz installed on it made a 60 dollar difference in the asking price.
Its far more machine, with a decent latency, than the D525MW machines I have two of running the lathe and the original toy mill. The only problem I have had so far is the probe output for G38.x useage can disappear from the 5i25 output. I thought the first time I had blown the card, so I changed it, then this past week it did it again, and the machine frame is now well grounded to the electronics box. And a forced power down reboot caused by a 6 hour power failure fixed it. So its possible the 5i25 I pulled out is good yet. I've been intending to put it in the toy mills machine which is doing software stepping, along with a new motor psu to replace the 28 volter with a 42 volter, which should about double that machines rapids. Its slow, 15 ipm rapids xy at best, 30 on Z because its still the acme screws drive I built early on and its head weight is counter sprung. With dual bronze nuts for backlash adjustments, its as tight as the ball screws I put in the xy table. Its also done a lot of work for me over the years. Only so much productive time available a day at my years, and I have plans for all three machines when I find the time. 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785111&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
