AW: galil

["Markus Meyer" <meyer-at-mesw.de>]

Hi David & Ray,

some time ago we had a Galil Motion Controller for testing here. It is
basically an ISA card with built-in support for trajectory planning, motion
control (PID) and input/output. It can only be controlled by sending
commands to it. These are sent over an interface (C programming language) or
directly with a kind of terminal program. If I remember correct, the
commands look like "P500" to set the P gain, or "MR193,492" to make a
relative move of 193,492. There is also a converter for G-Code. So the Galil
is really a replacement/alternative to EMC and not a solution to work with
EMC. Getting the Galil working is probably much easier than with EMC, but as
far as I can tell, EMC gives you more features and things to play with. And
after all, you get the source code with EMC.

Regards


Markus



> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]Im Auftrag von Ray
> Gesendet: Freitag, 28. September 2001 19:48
> An: Multiple recipients of list
> Betreff: Re: galil
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> On Friday 28 September 2001 16:21, David wrote:
> > Hello all!  Just got emc up and running (um... again), anyhow, have a
> > question:  I am seeing a galil motion controller on ebay (isa type) and
> > was wondering if anyone has had luck making this work under emc? (all
> > i've seen is 'servo-to-go' support)
> > thanks---David L.
>
> It seems to me that some of the initial testing of the EMC was with the
> Galil motion card???
>
> These kinds of cards do much of their own motion processing as a hard
> wired thing.  I believe that you need to read a config file and send that
> info to the card as a part of setup.  This is a very different
> animal than
> the STG which is designed to make stuff like I/O and encoder position
> available to the PC itself.
>
> HTH but probably not much.
>
> Ray
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