Re: Can I drip feed a bridgeport boss 5

Luke,
I could never get mine to work either...I'm lead to believe that my
ERS board is bad. I used a few terminal window programs with a serial
cable linked to the K6 pins on the ERS board. I could never get a
BOSS prompt or response from the machine...after several days of
fooling with it. All of the parameters for the COM port were set up
properly...the cable was good and the connections solid. DIP switches
on the ERS board were set right as well.

It's just easiest right now for me to redo all of the electronics and
convert to servos. The expense and time of getting the input issues
worked out just isn't worth it considering the limited memory of the
BOSS. Also, one of the motor transistors fried again just jogging the
machine around...I don't need that sort of headache or down time.

-Brady

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Luke1027 <luke1027@p...>
wrote:

> Brady,
>
> I do have a program and pin out from parallel port
> to drip feed to the Boss5. I am told that
> this program needs to run a 286 PC since it handles
> the parallel port instructions different than the newer mother
> boards do. I have not gotten it to work consistently
> yet, nor have I spend a lot of time trying to do so.
> I did get it to talk one day but never got it to work very well.
> The guy I got it from uses it all the time running programs
> for 6-8 hours. It was written by a friend of his in basic.

However,

> this man died shortly after it was finished and he never did get

the

> source code.
> If you would like, I can find all the info I have on it and email
> it to you off line. Maybe you and find out
> what I am doing wrong!!??
>
> Luke
>
>
> braidmeister wrote:
>
> >I'm pretty sure that you can't. The entire program has to be

loaded

> >into memory before it will be executed...That's why you see so

many

> >posts on here from BOSS owners converting to Mach2 etc.
> >
> >-Brady
> >
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> >>Help does anyone know if you can drip feed a boss 5
> >>controller????????
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