Chiron FZ12W Retrofit
17 Dec 2017 10:37 #103199
by anfänger
Chiron FZ12W Retrofit was created by anfänger
Hi I'am new to this community.
A while I go a Chiron FZ12W found its way to my shop.
It was my first contact with a CNC machine and cause playing with machines is just a hobby of mine it took me about two years to get her running again.
But this old baby has very few memory and a even slower serial connection I decided to give her a retrofit.
My chois was linuxCNC and Mesa cards.
I went thru alle the wiring plans and made me a spreadsheet with all the connections and I/Os i would need.
After about half a year of thinking and planning I ordered all I think to need:
I wired up the Mesa cards to the adapters.
I decides to male two boards one which comes in the old user panel together with the computer and the Monitor
This board contains the 7i92H the 7i77 and the 7i74
an one board with the 7i70 and 7i71 is placed in the cabinet in back of the machine
This way I can reuse alle the connectors from the old control unit.
The computer is a passive J1900 machine with 4gb of ram and a 32gb SSD and two ethernet ports. I installed an 12.4 Ubuntu and use the linuxnc repo the the rtai kernel from this repo. later I will compile my own kernel to get the touchscreen running again.
But for now trackball and keybord are fine.
so i fired up the computer and put power to the boards...
I can ping the 7i92 which, for me, is a good sign.
Now I am at the point where I would need some Help. I would really set up everything an do some tests before i put everything into the machine.
I read most of the manuals in summer and forgot everything again. But as far as I am aware pncConf does not support the 7i92.
Is there a good tutorial hot to set up (7i92H, 7i77, 7i74, 7i70 and 7i71) Mesacards or has someone a sample hal file?
Thanks Patrick
A while I go a Chiron FZ12W found its way to my shop.
It was my first contact with a CNC machine and cause playing with machines is just a hobby of mine it took me about two years to get her running again.
But this old baby has very few memory and a even slower serial connection I decided to give her a retrofit.
My chois was linuxCNC and Mesa cards.
I went thru alle the wiring plans and made me a spreadsheet with all the connections and I/Os i would need.
After about half a year of thinking and planning I ordered all I think to need:
I wired up the Mesa cards to the adapters.
I decides to male two boards one which comes in the old user panel together with the computer and the Monitor
This board contains the 7i92H the 7i77 and the 7i74
an one board with the 7i70 and 7i71 is placed in the cabinet in back of the machine
This way I can reuse alle the connectors from the old control unit.
The computer is a passive J1900 machine with 4gb of ram and a 32gb SSD and two ethernet ports. I installed an 12.4 Ubuntu and use the linuxnc repo the the rtai kernel from this repo. later I will compile my own kernel to get the touchscreen running again.
But for now trackball and keybord are fine.
so i fired up the computer and put power to the boards...
I can ping the 7i92 which, for me, is a good sign.
Now I am at the point where I would need some Help. I would really set up everything an do some tests before i put everything into the machine.
I read most of the manuals in summer and forgot everything again. But as far as I am aware pncConf does not support the 7i92.
Is there a good tutorial hot to set up (7i92H, 7i77, 7i74, 7i70 and 7i71) Mesacards or has someone a sample hal file?
Thanks Patrick
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