On Wednesday 07 September 2016 09:32:35 Ralph Stirling wrote: > The 5i25 is completely flexible, more so than a standard parallel > port, as every pin from 1-17 can be input or output.
Unforch, these cards all assume a std parport, so the card is hardwired accordingly. > 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. Thats good to know, as I would very much like to put a stepper driver on P2 to drive my rotary table. But thats a distraction right now. Thanks Ralph. > -- 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 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
