Re: regarding future plans for EMC

["George P. Tecos" <george.tecos-at-panautosys.com>]

Steve,
I would like to thank you for the fast response.I am
looking at the recipient list emc-at-nist.gov .
Thank's
George Tecos



At 12:46 PM 2/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:


>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