Re: [Emc-users] : Which mini ITX board to choose? (Rudy du Preez)

2013-04-11 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Gene What I sometimes do is to take a piece of electrical wire and strip the insulation off. Then I split the insulation along the length and slip it over the sharp edge. You can glue it with some epoxy or the like. On 2013/04/11 12:16 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 10 April 2013

Re: [Emc-users] : Which mini ITX board to choose? (Rudy du Preez)

2013-04-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 April 2013 08:39:43 Marius Liebenberg did opine: Gene What I sometimes do is to take a piece of electrical wire and strip the insulation off. Then I split the insulation along the length and slip it over the sharp edge. You can glue it with some epoxy or the like. I've done

Re: [Emc-users] : Which mini ITX board to choose? (Rudy du Preez)

2013-04-11 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, I just put together an e350n with 4GB ram and 120GB SSD. The only bios play I did was to try to boot with a USB HDD. No joy there so I used a sata dvd to install. The all day servo thread latency settles around 9600 (an overnight run was 12000 in the morning). The all day base

Re: [Emc-users] : Which mini ITX board to choose? (Rudy du Preez)

2013-04-10 Thread Rudy du Preez
The Intel D2800MT actually has a parallel port. It sits on the board and needs a ribbon cable extension. I am currently running a Linuxcnc 2.5.2 on this board with two parports: one in the PCI-E slot and one on the ribbon cable. One is configured as out and the other as in. Rudy

Re: [Emc-users] : Which mini ITX board to choose? (Rudy du Preez)

2013-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 April 2013 11:40:26 Rudy du Preez did opine: The Intel D2800MT actually has a parallel port. It sits on the board and needs a ribbon cable extension. Can the ribbon cable be fed directly to a B.O.B. such as Leonardo's CNC4PC model C1G?, bypassing at least one set of db25's?

Re: [Emc-users] : Which mini ITX board to choose? (Rudy du Preez)

2013-04-10 Thread andy pugh
On 10 April 2013 16:43, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Can the ribbon cable be fed directly to a B.O.B. such as Leonardo's CNC4PC model C1G?, bypassing at least one set of db25's? Yes. Even better, it can go direct to the identical header on a Mesa 7i43. -- atp If you can't fix it,

Re: [Emc-users] : Which mini ITX board to choose? (Rudy du Preez)

2013-04-10 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/4/10 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com On 10 April 2013 16:43, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Can the ribbon cable be fed directly to a B.O.B. such as Leonardo's CNC4PC model C1G?, bypassing at least one set of db25's? Yes. Even better, it can go direct to the identical header on

Re: [Emc-users] : Which mini ITX board to choose? (Rudy du Preez)

2013-04-10 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Gene, The pins on the MB is just a double header so you should be able to do that. I am looking at doing just that so I made a visit to the supplier and had a look at the MB to see how they do it. You could always make a little slot in the end plate of the PCI card or pop out one of the unused

Re: [Emc-users] : Which mini ITX board to choose? (Rudy du Preez)

2013-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 April 2013 18:10:37 andy pugh did opine: On 10 April 2013 16:43, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Can the ribbon cable be fed directly to a B.O.B. such as Leonardo's CNC4PC model C1G?, bypassing at least one set of db25's? Yes. Even better, it can go direct to the

Re: [Emc-users] : Which mini ITX board to choose? (Rudy du Preez)

2013-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 April 2013 18:12:55 Marius Liebenberg did opine: Gene, The pins on the MB is just a double header so you should be able to do that. I am looking at doing just that so I made a visit to the supplier and had a look at the MB to see how they do it. You could always make a little