On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 3:56 PM, fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > A local campus has an EMCO PC Mill 50, which communicates over RS485 > with a PC (running Win98, bleh!). I was wondering if anyone here has > had any experience with EMCO machines. I'd like to get an idea of how > difficult a retrofit with EMC would be.
I am in the same boat. We (my employer) has an EMCO PC Mill 50 where I work. It is the same setup with Win98 and a fanic emulator and control panel. > To my eye, it appears that the stepper driver module takes a set of > parallel signals - only a scope or probe will show the exact type. > Other than the "motherboard", there is a PLC that communicates by RS485. > > If I could get the mill running again (insufficient poking-around time), > I could sniff the serial traffic and build a more complete picture of > what goes on. My plan is to come up with something where I disrupt as > little as possible to make it function, to demonstrate the retrofit. As I understand it the Emco hardware does some very nice motor control. You would not want to scrap it. I was thinking of asking Emco for documentation. The worst thing I think they can do is say no. > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
