New ethercat / probe basic control for minimonster

That board is rather expensive. Can get beckhoff kit for less.

I laid out the terminal block rail, seems like everything will be fairly simple so far.

ihavenofish wrote:

That board is rather expensive. Can get beckhoff kit for less.

I laid out the terminal block rail, seems like everything will be fairly simple so far.

Just check the currency. My link was probably in AUD which is the pacific peso these days about 0.60 to the USD.
Dont forget it includes several equivalent modules to beckhoff. Input, Output, Encoder, MPG counter, Analog 0-10v. Beckhoff encoder and I/O was over AUD $800 in 2021

but i don't need those modules. surplus beckhoff encoder modules are in around $60-$80us

Drives are delayed (guy is sick) but I got my lenovo tiny pc and the electrical cabinet set up and a spare delta ms300 to try rs485 things with.

So originally I intended to try probe basic, but I don't have a 1080p monitor so I may try something else. What was the one you mentioned Rod? QTdragon gui?

Does this ui cover probing and ATC well? (im googling it now)

Thanks

I got mine set up using axis and then moved to TTS repeatable tooling and  went to QT Dragon because I could not get probe basic working on my hardware. Then I found none of the QTdragon screens worked for my 16" monitor so upgraded to a 16"  1080p monitor. It has probing and ATC. The manual tool change works well.
Don't Google, Its all well documented in the Linuxcnc docs.

Ah cool thanks.
my screen res is 1680x1050 right now (old cinema display) and my panel screen is 2k, 4:3. I'd rather not buy a new screen for any of this.

I'm installing linuxcnc 2.9.4 now.