Mesa 5i25 config for chinese BOB

Amen,
If you don't want to take the time to learn the software, pay someone to do it for you. Don't expect people to do your work for free (unless you work for the government.)

ok had some progress last knight more than 4 hours of testing and running, ended up with with the prb_rfx2 pin file flashed to mesa, but it seems like it is missing pwm on pin 1 and I couldn't program an enable pin for the drives also. . After manually enabling the drives I had some motion on axis x,y,z.but not good. Still can't get it to work correctly. Imm gona switch to another BOB maybe a c11 today for a trial - error run. If I get things moving I'll post. Thank you for all the help.

pacman13b
Post your Pinout for your bob may be so can help better
an link to your operating manual for bob or type store link or so

@Todd Zuercher what your comment mean have you programmed this?

@Andy

Why are you so aggressive and insulting just because there are people that English is not native language call her. if I do not help me to help but not not write. Give me a documentation I can read in my mother tongue and I do not bother you.

Had Linus also thought it was not for linux. If all who have worked on it does not respond as you would not schattendarsein run alongside Microsoft and its erfolgreciher. Back then appeared as Linux, it was far more advanced than Windows but has Komunity single axle drift gradually by arguing and senseless discussions.

I have spent in the last time a lot of money to get working configurations and these are all mediocre.
If I'm looking how to do it then I write at least one complete example with comments to so would also help subsequent users. But because the fronts have now already hardened, it is better you are looking at a different way.
Sure I can understand you it is annoying over and over again to discuss the same but do not you think it much more useful would be if you have the solution already written there to vwerseisen out as such on an awkward half-finished and hard-to-understand guide? I do not know if you've programmed with Linuxcnc

but the opinion I can also stand alone.

I'm sorry, my comment did not contribute anything useful to this discussion, and was therefore out of line. It is an unfortunate fact that the rare few, individuals with both the technical knowledge and linguistic skills to make good translations of documentation have little to no incentive to put the required time into such work.

Parallel port BOB is as follows . Pins reflect to parallel port schema..

1 – PWM - output
2 – STEP X - output
3 – DIR X - output
4 – STEP Y - output
5 – DIR Y - output
6 – STEP Z - output
7 – DIR Z - output
8 – STEP A - output
9 – DIR A - output
10 – E-STOP - input
11 – PROBE - input
12 – LIMIT X - input
13 – LIMIT Y - input
14 – ENABLE Drive (-) - output
15 – LIMIT Z input
16 – STEP B - output
17 – DIR B - output
18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 – GND

My step / dir & enable drive signals are (-)
5 - AXIS Break out board.

Thank u.

Have you copied the Hostmot2 files into the %root% firmware/hm2 directory? this is important





when you start pncconf you have to select the rfx2 firmware in pncconf after flashing the card and press accept
i have no computer here with linuxcnc on it you must a little improve

at the start configurating page of mesacard in pncconf you select 0 encoders then you can use the encoderpins for I/O

only the pwm you must bridge with an adaptor to the cross of the cable
i do not use pwm regulation
and then you canb klick any pins in the dropdown list
this is all i know about this sorry more help i cant give to you

the numbers at last 000: 1: 001: are the digital inside pins this are not the output pins this is important
the grean and red numbers in the pictures should be the Real pin numbers
if you want to have them others you have to seek an coder who makes a custom bitfile

i hope you help this to get it up

Thanks mate, I'll give it a go.

hurray...... Got movement on all axes's . Had to dig up and read the manual twice overnight to hook up manually by hand and not with pncconf the gpio to HAL. Anyhow got it all setup switches input - outputs working and motors working with dmm_bb2.bit file.

G0G53Z148 your post really helped me on getting the idea of how to map things out.. thank you.

The only thing I can't bypass and I'mm stuck is when testing for motor movement velocity etc. the motor moves but doesn't stop on time
maybe after a long while it keeps on moving and incrementing speed . can't seem to understand, step drivers are DQ860MA, maybe step time delay?? I tried different numbers up to 5000ms but same issue numbers below 2000ms don't run at all. DataSheet of driver say 2500, so I left it there.
Any ideas has anybody reference this situation.

If I do a motor test inside pcnconf +-50mm goes 50.5xx then it comes back to 50.0 with microsteps and vise versa.

The mesa fpga card is really high end. Keep up the excellent hardware r&d.. .

Thank you all for getting me up and running ..