Taig Mill/Gecko G540/Mesa Card?

I am trying to put together my first LinuxCNC build using a Taig Mill. My previous experience is limited to GRBL 3D printers and CNC routers.

I have a Gecko 540 in an enclosure (including power supply and e-stop) with 3 steppers on the Taig. I have an older PC (Intel i7 - one core enabled jitter is below 10K) with a SIIG PCIe Parallel port card. I have the steppers working on this hardware. I have not installed any limit or home switches yet. I have a Digital Loggers relay power strip that I was planning on using for turning on and off the spindle.

I am considering switching to a Mesa ethernet solution - just because it seems to be a more elegant solution. I would also love to utilize a RPI5 I have sitting idle, primarily due to space concerns posed by the old gaming PC chassis. 

So, from my research it seems that a Mesa 7192TF would allow me to connect to the Gecko box and utilize the ethernet connection from the PC or the RPI5. 

Am I on the right path? - or am I missing other components that I need?

TIA

Randale
 

That should work

If you already have a male --> male DB25 cable, the 7I92TF is appropriate.
If you don't have a male-male cable or don't want to use a long printer
cable in the control box,  a 7I92TH with a short flat cable (HDR26 --> DB25M)
might make more sense.

Thanks!

I actually do have the cable. It came included with the Gecko box.

I was planning on probably putting the 7i92 in a separate enclosure. I looked back at the Mesa website and realized that the same picture was used for the TH, TM and TF. Am I correct in assuming that the only difference is the connector used on the board? Header, Female and Male?

Thanks,

Randale

The 7I92T(X) cards (the current versions of the 7I92)
do have separate pictures

7I92TF  P2 is DB25F
7I92TM P2 is DB25M
7I92TH P2 is HDR26

(P1 is always HDR26)

Thanks for the info.

I just ordered up a TF to experiment with.

Randale

do you have a good config for this set up.
i have the same setup, but could not get right config. spindle wont start

What G540 output turns on the spindle?

You would need to setup the the appropriate
GPIO bit for spindle enable to make this work

To find the 7I92T to Gecko G540 pin mappings, run:

mesaflash --device 7i92t --addr 10.10.10.10 --dbname1 g540 --readhmid

(Assuming the 7I92T IP address is 10.10.10.10)