Does it even work with LinuxCNC? Sent from John's iPhone 4S
On 2020-07-23, at 11:07 AM, Dave Matthews <n36...@gmail.com> wrote: > The biggest plus I see is that if it is easy to set up it might be a > good way to go, especially at $90 delivered. I am not a big fan of > USB but it does seem to work fine for the Mach 3 crowd. The biggest > negative I see for the Mesa products is that they are very difficult > to get set up for most people. The LinuxCNC docs are set up for > people that have been using it for 20 years or those that want to > spend hours digging. Even finding docs for setting up auto gantry > alignment on my parallel port router has been difficult. I have found > a couple examples for Mesa setups but knowing what to edit on my setup > is not clear. Stopconf works great but after that it gets real murky > real fast. > > Dave > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 12:52 PM John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: >> >> This might have been mentioned on the MACH CNC group but the reality is that >> if you want LinuxCNC and two parallel ports the MESA 7i92 is less expensive >> and not tied to potential speed issues via USB. For example WIN-10 won't >> run the USB based Smooth Stepper but will run the Ethernet Smooth Stepper >> with MACH4. >> >> So for LinuxCNC at $89 the 7i92H is just overall a better deal. Or any of >> the MESA or PICO based products. For all the costs involved in CNC the >> truth is during the learning curve part the broken tool bits and trashed >> work is far more expensive but considered part of the costs. Ethernet is >> faster and less likely to have timing issues. >> >> My 2 cents. >> >> John >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Dave Matthews [mailto:n36...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: July-23-20 8:42 AM >>> To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) >>> Subject: [Emc-users] Machmaker USB -> Parallel >>> >>> A link to a video for this thing showed up in my facecrap feed. It >>> looks like a UC-100 only for LinuxCNC 2.9. They are demoing on a Pi >>> 4. Has anyone got any experience with the Linumeric-LPT v1? Price >>> and ordering are not shown on the site, you are directed to email >>> them. >>> >>> Product Link - http://machmaker.pl/index.php?p=1_13 >>> >>> VIdeo - >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txivr8j86t8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR04UYfSGbRucny1aek0HVgJGrBkG0FiaxosNx_DQ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
