--- In mach1mach2cnc@..., "Henry Palonen" <yahoo@y...>
wrote:
Hello,
How could I possibly write drivers for my 3rd-party servo-board ? I
have written driver modules for EMC, and I would like to write
similar drivers for Mach2. The board is made by Siemens, and it has
normal servo-controllers (3x +/- 10V out, 3x enc in, 40+ in/out
ports), so it's quite like Servo2Go, but not exactly. It would be
nice to have board operating at Mach2 also, since I recently
switched
from EMC. Does Mach2 support "external" driver-modules or dll's ?
Best regards,
Henry "Henkka" Palonen,
Tampere, Finland
PS. I tried to search the archives of this group, but didn't find
anything about "3rd party" drivers.
Have you looked at the Rutex 991h step/direction to servo +-10
converter card? It should interface between MACH2 and your stock
servo amps. Art will have to address any interface questions to
MACH2 but my understanding is that the pulsing engine for parallel
port output is the core of MACH2 and is the component that allows
MACH2 to output up to 45 KHZ signals with Windows; a feat that up
until Art started with Master5 was considered impossible. Another
driver module or DLL would have to replace the pulsing engine and
would require a serious re-write of core code. That's my
understanding and may be uncorrect but if so Art will let us know.
TOM C
