On Sunday 01 November 2020 11:00:23 dave engvall wrote: > Hi, > I have a application for a 7i37/ 7i33. In face a couple of them. > First try has been a D525 with a SIIG single pport. > First off I have no idea if the SIIG board works and indeed no idea of > how to test it. > > With Jon's ppmc there was a comm program that told one right away if > the link was working. > I have no idea how to do anything like that with the 7i37. > Sorry to be so ignorant but that's life. > > Can someone recommend a small motherboard (if possible) that has a > reliable EPP pport? > The app is servos which may relax some of the constraints.
Dave, I ran the D525MW mobo on my little mill, using the D252MW's existing parport with a now disco'ed cnc4pc G1G breakout interface board. both on TLM and the micro-mill. Both are now running on a 5i25, but TLM is still on the same old interface plus a 2nd bob because I've added more goodies but the mico-mills box is now running a 4 axis 6040 gantry mill with a 7i76D to get enough I/O for independent home switches and other gingerbread such as the mister pump. However, looking up those boards, none of the variations are intended to be driveb by a parport. You need a pci card that drives those 50 pin cards. And the 5i25 isn't it. Looks like you need at least a 5i20/22/23 card in your computer. The 5i23 gives you more than enough I/O to do anything you want on that mill, 96 I/O lines on it. The 7i43 also looks usable with a parport and 50 pin daughter cards. But the level of data traffic it pushes thru a parport might find some parports wanting. > In conclusion how does one test the link? I don't know how well it works, never built it, but the linuxcnc documentation pdf has instructions for making and useing it. > Once the link works the rest should be easy. > Note: I've used 5i20/7i33 combo's. And if thats enough i/o, it should still Just Work. Famous last words of course... > Thanks in advance > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis 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
