RE: EMC and DRO card

[Dan Falck <dfalck-at-sprynet.com>]

Yes, one could actually use EMC as a DRO program.  That's kind of a
perverse thought- hmmm can't run it on a 486, have to use a pentium, and it
scares the hell out of the majority of people becuase of the rtlinux install. 

I couldn't get Tkemc to work yet.  The period thing kept hanging me up.  I
set it to .00008, .00005, and .000025, etc... and it just kept hanging.
This is a lot tougher than I thought it would be.   Xemc worked though.  

Dan

At 01:11 AM 3/23/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Gosh, what an idea. I have had the DRO card installed in the computer for
>about a week now. It never dawned on me to just hook up one of the encoders
>I have just to see it move. Actually what is even worse is my stepper motors
>have encoders built in and all I need to do to try it is wire then to some
>connectors and plug them into the board.
>
>Tim
>[Denver, CO]
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Dan Falck
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 10:29 PM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list
>> Subject: EMC and DRO card
>>
>>
>>
>> OK, I finally installed my Dan Mauch/Tom Kulaga DRO card and am going to
>> use it with EMC.  It's not set up yet, but I did play with it tonight.  I
>> plugged the card into the encoders that are mounted on the servos that I
>> use with the Servo Lite package, just to see if they worked- and they did!
>> It's nice to see the "actual display" being changed by a real world signal
>> (I'm sure that the thrill has worn off for you guys with STG cards).
>> Anyway,  I'm going to play with this one some more, as soon as I get the
>> latest build worked out,  PERIOD..... etc....
>> My computer has gone down for the count, when I set period too low.
>> So many toys, so many .ini files, so little time.....
>>
>> Dan
>>
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