New install of Mesa 7i92 on TCL lathe

Just to clarify.
The Klippon is  in effect a length of terminal strip   .   Each of the 26 IO connections on  the IDC 26 can be connected  to a button on the keyboard which ( when pressed ) grounds the pin .  There are no functioning electronics in there  
It is just a convenient way of connecting a the ribbon cable from the IDC pins to my button /panel wiring  so would some additional bit of electronics be necessary

 

It is effectively a smaller version of this
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With the wiring hanging out in the air like that the chance of picking up electrical noise\interference is an issue. I would have tried to keep the ribbon strip as short as possible (shorter than what you have). Every wire acts as an antenna to s certain extent.

The use of ferrules is a very good idea, far better than trying to insert bare wire ends. Keeping the wiring neat and tidy is good practice, at the very least in aids in trouble shooting. It does take slightly longer to hook up, but it is well worth the effort.

One practice I have tried to keep to is have the power supply wiring on one side of the cabinet and the I\O on the other, trying my best to keep any crossing over to a minimum. This may not possible in all situations.

Wiring not complete yet and much of it will pull back into the panel area which is a bit of a Faraday cage . Needs a bit of slack for working on the switches anyway.
AFAIK all the higher voltage cables are screened apart from the stepper driver supplies which are at 60v but they do go via the e-stop in the panel.

There has to be some proximity particularly at driver connections but I was aware of this . can cross the bridge when we get there

john11668 wrote:

I do have an adjacent windows pc which lets me connect so I can download , extract and copy to a pen drive for transfer to linux machine.
7i92_5ABOBX2.pin happily transfers and opens in Geany
7i92_5ABOBX2.bit isnt recognised as a text file so wont open.
Will go and have a read of manual with regard to " flashing firmware "

So I am presuming I enter "mesaflash --device 7I92 --write 5ABOBX2D.bit"
and similar for " .pin" , then follow with the verify command

Is the fallback area just a reserve copy of the same files



 

So that responds with an error  that it cant find the file 
Do I have to have it in a particular location ,  or do i have to specify a full filepath
 

Only .bit

Have only got as far as .bit file tommy . I think someone else had pointed out that pin file was just for info.
but when i use the mesaflash command for the bit file it comes back as file not found .
So where does the file need to be for the system to find it ?
Do I use the full title 7i92_5ABOBx2D.bit or just 5ABOBx2D.bit or even the full filepath ??