Og forgot to mention. My machine has 3 steppers which each need 1 step and dir signal
on top of that I would need 2 or 3 output pins to control laser on/off + laser power via pwm + I would need 2 inputs for limit switches I suppose this info could be interesting on top of my previous email. Kind regards, Bart Op 4 maart 2012 21:36 heeft Bart Libert (EducaSoft) <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven: > Dear guys (and possibly girls, why not) > > I have a question which may sound quite newbie, but I can assure I'm > not newbie at all (just newbie in this matter :) > > I am currently building a laser cutter machine and for that I will > need to be able to output pulses between 25kHz and 50kHz (50kHz would > be the max but would be nice to be achievable) > > Now I tried this with EMC on a very high end machine I have here (A > Dual Xeon quadcore machine on a serverboard) and emc is aproximately > capable of doing it. > > > Little detail: Thats a $4000 machine and a little expensive for > controlling a machine :) Its nice for tests but too expensive to put > in the same place as the laser. > > > > > > So... is there any way that I could put some kind of card into my pc > (a regular $400 household machine) which could take care of these > timings, so that I could nicely to 50kHz, but with a lot cheaper PC ? > > > I have heard about these MESA cards, but I don't know at all what they > do and I also don't know if they have to be programmed for > something??? > > > > So any information / hints / links would be very helpfull. > > > If I understand well, then the biggest problem for a pc is to maintain > a steady rate, so maybe there is a solution for that ? > > > Kind regards, > And many thanks in advance, > > > Bart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
