On 07/09/16 06:44, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 07 September 2016 01:05:39 Chris Kelley wrote: > >> > What do you need to know about it? The last eBay link you posted has a >> > picture that shows the pinout. > Yes and no. No linkage between that pinout, and what pin this is on the > db25 connector. And its apparently a near 100% mis-match between a > 5i25's useage of the pins and whatever the hell mach3 uses. So unless > that is available in the password locked .pdf or .doc files, these cards > are only usefull with a mach3 install. And utterly worthless to me. I > have lots more on my plate with the mechanical conversion of this > Sheldon 11x36 than to have to write a new firmware driver for a 5i25 > before I can turn a single motor with something besides my function > generator.
I crossed them of the list some time ago. The pin-out is 'silly' with 14, 16 and 17 mixed into the S/D list and then 9 used for the spindle. Yes it needs software like Mach3 which can remap the pins, but the killer is the hand control only being a direct feed to the stepper motors. Has its uses as a manual controller but one would expect a pendent to run the software? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
