EtherCAT i/o board for spindle, estop and mpg

onceloved wrote:

My servo driver uses ethercat and my io uses rv901 fpga card. They both work well together on Orange Pi 5 Plus.

I have a small retrofitted machine with Ethercat drives and a Rtelligent I/O module. I added an encoder on the spindle but nothing to connect it to. Swapping it put for one of these would solve that problem. I'd also like to try an Ethercat VFD on it too.

Orange Pi 5 Plus has better performance than Raspberry Pi 5, but its ecosystem is not as good as Raspberry Pi. Ethercat is easy to install. You can check it out forum.linuxcnc.org/18-computer/48079-can...-to-run-lcnc?start=0

For x86 computers with parallel ports, you can connect the spindle encoder to the parallel port. I have a pcie to dual parallel port card that can provide 34 io

This machine uses an Odroad H2+ (now H3 and H3+). I have used a few of them as you end up with a full AMD64 PC
www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3/

Looks good, not sure about the delay

rodw wrote:

Odd, it works for me CATIO-A

 

Do you have the vendor data from the ESI....I don't think most of that AliExpress stuff is legit.