An open source Emco 120P lathe tool turret control

I ask a lot of questions, its the engineer in me. If I start another thread for the build where should I put, Ill keep up with the toolerator 3000 stuff here, but I can ask all the questions specific for putting together a system for the emcoturn 120 in the other thread. I appreciate all the help so far, I just dont want to be too needy.

LutzTD wrote: I ask a lot of questions, its the engineer in me. If I start another thread for the build where should I put, Ill keep up with the toolerator 3000 stuff here, but I can ask all the questions specific for putting together a system for the emcoturn 120 in the other thread. I appreciate all the help so far, I just dont want to be too needy.

There are specific forum headings for the appropriate subject, ie, General Linuxcnc Questions, or Basic or Advanced Configuration. For posting a build thread, which are always interesting, you could use Hardware & Machines -> CNC Machines, or alternatively Hardware & Machines -> Turning. Build threads often are more of an update and "here's what I am doing" kind of place as opposed to posting questions and hoping for answers there (though that can work). And certainly getting general help on how to begin and where to go from there could be started in your build thread. When you have a specific question on some aspect of Linuxcnc you will want to post the question in another area (ie, HAL Components when your question is related to HAL) rather than hoping someone is monitoring your build thread.

-Tom

I received the circuit board today. It looks good. I wasn't going to populate it unless I needed it, but I just may need to for fun. Many thanks!
-Tom

no problem, Im glad it made it ok.

Toolerator 3000 PCBA built but not tested. I still need to get a 24vdc power supply and the turret assembled.

apparently I cannot attach pictures without limiting out so here's the only one that works

LutzTD wrote: Toolerator 3000 PCBA built but not tested. I still need to get a 24vdc power supply and the turret assembled.

Looks very nice. By the way, did you send the PDF layout of the board that was include with the files to the board house? Or did you produce gerber files from KiCAD? Just curious because I just realized that all the component labels are underneath the parts (once populated). Dale did that because he was cutting the board on our cnc pcb milling machine. So he didn't arrange the mask as it should have been for a board layout. If you were ever to do another run of boards, I would suggest KiCAD be run and the component labels be moved out to where they can be seen when components are populated. If you ever need to replace the electrolytic caps, for example, you want to know which is + and which is -.
-Tom