Re: Pic servos
Posted by
Andy Olney
on 1999-06-18 05:52:30 UTC
>controlling
> [This looks interesting, Dan. Have you ever tried these out for
> servos? Has anybody here? I assume the $175 is per axis, but still, itThese boards have their own control language running over a serial port and
> doesn't look that bad if that's all I'll need to retrofit my old mill to
> accept unlimited g-code file sizes. Could it be that simple? Are these the
> kind of boards that have their own chips onboard, so they can buffer the
> input from the computer and real-timeness isn't an issue? Or is there
> something I'm not taking into consideration here? I wonder how well the
> control software that goes with these things really works...]
>
>
> Andrew Werby
you need some kind of software to generate that from gcode. Kerr has a
stepper adaptor that will fool the board into accepting stepper input but
Dan Mauch says it slow. Since to look is closed in hardware on the board the
real time requirements are not as much an issue. Jeff Kerr says it is
possible to tell 4 axis what to do about 400 times per second max, which
seems like it should be adequate.
Andy Olney
Discussion Thread
Andrew Werby
1999-06-17 13:26:36 UTC
Pic servos
Andy Olney
1999-06-18 05:52:30 UTC
Re: Pic servos
Dan Mauch
1999-06-18 05:52:30 UTC
Re: Pic servos