Re: Help w/ old equip!!

Joe Vicars wrote:

> From: Joe Vicars <jvicars@...>
>
> I have two older drive modules, details listed below. They are both
> the
> size of three New York City phone books and weigh about 50 lbs. each.
> I
> plan on scrapping them for the power supplies and components unless
> someone can tell me if they are worth trying to use "as-is".
>
> The first is a Modu-lynx motion control (w/power supply) that
> includes:
> IMD015 microstep indexer card
> DRD002A Driver Card
> IOD004A Interface card
>
> The other is a Slo-Syn Preset indexer Type IK600C (w/power supply)
>
> Can these things be made to work with regular Step/Direction TTL?
> They
> look like RS232, but beyond that I don't know squat about them. (or
> about RS232 for that matter)

You assume they are RS-232 entirely because they have a 25-pin D
connector? That
is a bad assumption. Chances are, they are NOT RS-232, or serial
communications
at all.

Jon