Electronic spindle gearbox

Sorry for the delay I've been gutting and installing the new PC and wiring the boards. I need to add that if you think you might hit the motherboard when drilling holes to mount the PC don't talk yourself out of removing it as I did or you will be replacing it. I'm hoping to get movement this weekend. I'm looking at this with a blank stare and have a few questions. I make a file with the above text in ( linuxcnc/src/hal/components ) and call it electronic gearbox. then in hal, I place loadrt electronic gearbox and then I define the relay 1,2 & 3 to my outputs?

microsprintbuilder wrote: I'm looking at this with a blank stare and have a few questions. I make a file with the above text in ( linuxcnc/src/hal/components ) and call it electronic gearbox. then in hal, I place loadrt electronic gearbox and then I define the relay 1,2 & 3 to my outputs?

Nearly. You would need to compile / install the new component using the "comp" tool.

www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/hal/comp.html

Or, if you are using the development version, it has changed its name:

www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/hal/comp.html

And this is done in a terminal window using sudo?

You can use gedit to create and edit the file, but then, yes, "sudo comp --install ebox.comp

And then the hal file can contain "loadrt ebox"

I cannot find the file linuxcnc/src/hal/components. Is it hidden. What is the first location? Home, documents, etc. ?

microsprintbuilder wrote: I cannot find the file linuxcnc/src/hal/components.

Why are you looking for it? You can put ebox.comp anywhere convenient, and comp will compile it and move the executable file to the right place.

if mentions programs like mm and mail then ignore it. You need to