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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: Bill57 on February 28, 2009, 06:32:59 PM
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Hi All
Need some help I am retrofitting a Takamatsu 8 station turret cnc lathe. I have all manuals ect. I need to know what is the best PCI motion card out there to use and what is compatible with Mach3. The lathe has a Yasnac 200G control that I will get rid of, I will use the all the brushed servo motors, Amps, and power supply . They seam to be all fine. I will replace the resolvers with rotary encoders.
Any Help
Thanks
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Mach works with a regular PC parallel port, or a SmoothStepper. I don't know that is supports any PCI motion control cards....
Regards,
Ray L.
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Answered you in the other thread but will paste here as it is probably more appropriate in your own thread.
"The only PCI out there that has a plugin for Mach is the Galil, dont know how good the integration is now but there is a Galil part to this forum so you can check there.
The DSPMC mentioned above I think is a self contained unit and support for it seems to be good, again there is a section for it on the forum."
Hood
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Thanks T have been looking at a Galil DMC 1830 E
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Been usimg the StarTech PCI cards with good results. This last PC (an Asus P1 book sized) had no parallel ports at all so installed a dual parallel ported PCI card. Works great. StarTech is a fine group to deal with too since the cards have a lifetime warranty for tech support or replacement.
Hope this helps too....
Bill C.
I guess that's sort-a different.... :P
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I'm also using a Startech PCI2s2P 2 port 16650 parallel card, I just recently bought a new HP Workstation and have no movement yet in the machine. Did you have this problem at first. I have XP over Vista.