The 5i25 is completely flexible, more so than a standard parallel port, as every pin from 1-17 can be input or output. If none of the standard bitfiles covers your pinout need, Peter Wallace or John Thornton can easily generate one for you that does. It isn't at all impossible to set up to generate your own bitfiles, but requires careful editing of some vhdl text files.
-- Ralph ________________________________________ From: Lester Caine [les...@lsces.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 3:04 AM To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Need unlocked copy of a pdf for a breakout board I just bought two of. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
