Re: Basic EMC question

Thanks for all the great info. Being a newcomer to this I'm not
really aware of where the technology has been in the recent past. I'm
now better able to appreciate EMC. I'm sure that someone will devise
a way to include a power supply and several high power drives on a
ISA bus circuit board in the not too distant future. I'm surprised
that the drives don't require well regulated power. I guess the more
important point is in having high current capability. Perhaps there
will be a version of the EMC specification in the future that will
have some form of self-configuration if the drivers ever get bus
mounted in the computer.

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Jon Elson <elson@p...> wrote:
> exeric1 wrote:
>
> > This is a sidenote to my question. Does anyone make a PC board
that
> > provides a well regulated 80 volts along with 3 high power drivers
> > ala Gecko drives? Also does the EMC output only exist on the
parallel
> > port or can the output be redirected on a bus that the inboard
> > circuit board would be capable of using?
>
> There may be such a thing, but the Gecko drives do NOT need
> regulated power. It is also a good idea to run them at slightly
less than
> 80 V.
>
> What bus would you use for this inboard circuit board? The
parallel port
> usually appears as a 26-pin header on the motherboard of most
Pentium-class
> PCs. So, it is already an 'internal bus' in that sense.
>
> Jon