Re: Linux vs. DOS

On Sat, 29 May 1999 12:16:11 +0100, you wrote:

>> From: Andrew Werby <drewid@...>
>>
>> [I just got my new (old) mill delivered yesterday, and it's really a beast!
>> This is a Ramco "Ramill", built to be a CNC mill in the mid-eighties. It
>> has servo motors and ballscrews, which should save me some time and money
>> over retrofitting an old Bridgeport, which was my first idea. Currently, it
>> will accept instructions in g-code, either from the attached keyboard or
>> from a tape drive. But I'd like to convert it to a more modern control
>> system which wouldn't be limited to 999 instructions- some of the progams
>> I've been generating run over 2 megs, (and I'm just getting started.) I
>> think I can save the servo amplifiers and most of the relay switches, while
>> gutting out the old computer and attaching a standard monitor. I'd be happy
>> with something that ran in real time under DOS, if it could handle g-code.
>
>
>The only thing it sounds like you'd need to buy would be the
>Servo-to-Go card, and maybe a rack of solid-state relays to
>drive the auxilliary stuff.
>

Andrew,
Contary to popular opinion the Ahha controllers can now control servo's.
As you already have a working controller you should be able to hook up to your
existing servo amps and save the cost of a servo card.
I went this way with my conversion as with all the help I received from the UK
agent for Ahha it made it quick and painless, especially for someone like myself
who is not capable of working these thing out for himself.
Added to the fact that I needed this machine up and working to earn a living I
didn't have the time to experiment.
In fact from start to actually getting the machine under power took less than 5
hours.
I don't believe that Ahha web site has been updated for quite a while but the
servo work is actually being carried out by the Uk agents, Eagland Machine
Tools.
They have a web site at www.eagland.co.uk

Regards,
John Stevenson
Nottingham, England