Re: STG and Parallel Port

[Dave Engvall <dengvall-at-charter.net>]

On 11/18/02 10:16 PM, "Don Mclane" <dmclane-at-u.washington.edu> wrote:

> 
> 
>> The STG I/O is all taken up with limit and home switches,
>> amp faulta and amp enables, etc. So, yes, you need to use
>> another parallel port for the auxilliary control.
> 
> What? Are you saying that you're using all 32 bits and could use more?
> 
> Don McLane
> Servo To Go, Inc.
> 
> 
Hi Don,
A few of us could use only four encoder counters and DACS and a lot more
DIO. It looks like the Mazak  (V5) conversion needs close to 50 inputs and
40   outputs. This requirement will be pretty much standard as one converts
older commercial CNC's to emc.

Dave