I'm half way through retrofitting a Cincinnati VMC with a MESA m5i20 setup. I
would welcome some advice as to the best way to control the spindle. My goal is
to be able to do rigid tapping and fully automatic tool changes. My thoughts are
that since I am planning on adding a 4th rotary axis very so
Chris,
Thanks for the info. I'll give the filtered PWM option a try. I'm in the process
of hooking up the spindle encoder at the moment so will soon see what resolution
it's got. I can see from the wiring diagram that it's A & B quad and index but
I've no idea what resolution. The axis motors all
Peter, Anders
In my case 8 axis support in the driver would be nice for the next project I'm
working on (conversion of a Wessel CNC router to EMC control + AC Servos +
Perske spindle) although for the VMC I'm retrofitting at the moment I need all
the IO I can get. The IO for the toolchanger is lo
How much RAM have you got. I encounteed exactly the same problem on a dell
optiplex gx60 recently that had 256MB which I believed to be the minimum
required for EMC, however I'd forgotten that the graphics card was integrated
and was using some of the system RAM. As soon as I added another 256MB al
