Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] First Post (and a question re using a plotter as a power feed)

Bill,

YES! You should be able to drive step & direction or CW & CCW (and a
little logic) from a buffered parallel port!

Alan

Bill Darby wrote:

> The plotter is a Houston model DP 11 The cable plug is round with about 19 pins and 15 of them are wired up and doing
> something. You are right about the third axis, the pen action is simply a solenoid driving the pen up or down. At the moment I
> have unraveled the wiring harness just to see where everything goes and also to see if I can remote the joystick, power and scale
> selector switch on a single umbilical cable to a convent spot on top of the lathe bench while all the gubbins can remain in the
> original case bolted to the underside.
>
> If this plan does not work I have a Daedal three axis control unit that has manual presets, run, step and direction switches
> and position display for each of the axis. This,,, I would dearly love to be able to tie into computer control. Do you think it
> possible???
> Someone once told me that it would be possible to transmit the step and direction signal to the step and direction switching on this
> unit??
>
> Bill Darby