Re: regarding future plans for EMC

[rehenry <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Fred H

I'm wondering if it would be fruitful to fork this thread into hardware 
and software issues.  I can see that you will need to write a driver for 
the board that you are describing but that is different from the issue of 
updating/rewriting the EMC code itself.  I'm interested in both but the 
rewrite issue needs to gain steam on it's own.

M2cw

Ray


On Monday 11 February 2002 10:56 am, Fred Herenius wrote:
> Luckily I _know_ I can't count when in need of sleep, so I got there
> before someone else did...
>
> A 1 axis bi-directional controller needs 8 fets, and 4 pre-fet driver
> ICs. So the figure of $65 was just for 3 axis. The thing is, I did a
> lot of the design thinking I'd need only 3 axis. It was only fairly
> recent that I decided to go for a six axis controller. For a six axis
> controller it will rougly be $125. So that would bring the grand total
> including ~ 50% bonus to $260, which is quite a bit more :(  Aim
> adjusted to $185 for six axis. Should be doable since at these
> quantities the parts get a bit cheaper. Perhaps next time I should make
> the I-can't-count-bonus 100%, pffff.
>
> Fred