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A friend sent me this link, it's not my mill. 

www.instagram.com/btr_fabrications/p/DWjx6bkDCgf/

 

Before you make any decisions, you've got to sort out power.

How many amps of 220v single-phase do you have available for the machine?  This will narrow down your options considerably.

Even if you downgrade the VFD, you may not be able to run the existing drives on single-phase. You may not even have enough amps available with a rotary phase converter or Phase Perfect.

If you do have enough amps to run single-phase with no converter, you need to budget for significantly increase conductor sizes to (and maybe inside) the machine.

So...
How many amps do you have available?
If you don't have many amps, can you stomach the cost & hassle of a service upgrade?
How many amps do the drives require, and what voltage?

I think these will help you determine if you're re-using anything or if this is gonna be a full-boogie replacement where everything electrical comes out and gets replaced with new.

Used gdebi to install dependencies stuff, then dpkg worked... now have LinuxCNC installed.

I am trying to follow instructions as presented, but there is a lot of stuff to get up to speed on and it is difficult (for me) to remember all the various bit n' pieces and in shuffling things around I have probably confused myself - hence the clean install and going back from basics to walk though the installation process from scratch.

This restart is meant to simplify the process, rather than just spinning my wheels.

I will do the Probe-Basic stuff tomorrow... as it's getting later here in the UK and it's time to shut down for the night

Thanks for the time and help, it is appreciated.

here are the pictures. the one with the white folding table background is the old one.   

Thank you. I am starting to feel like I really must have missed something obvious here...

PCW: no luck on the setpci option:

 

I might not be the best person to reply to this as i absolutely enjoy retrofitting and bringing back to life old machines, so i may be a bit on the "trigger happy" side, but:
-i would try to use the existing drives and motors and VFD/spindle
-seems like those are analog drives, so a Mesa 7i97T would do perfectly fine if you can find one, if not a 7i92T with 7i77 is the same thing, or if those are also scarce a 7i96S with 7i85 and 7i83 should do the same job.
-if you still want to replace the drives, you have two choices in general: EtherCAT or Mesa with normal step/dir or analog servos (do not bother to look at steppers and close loop steppers)
-You will be bombarded by others to choose EtherCAT, i am still avoiding them due to some fuzzy communication issues, but i will test them for sure the fist chance i get.
-For the Mesa/new drives, i would look for "position and velocity" mode drives (analog +-10V and step/dir) and also with encoder outputs (all have encoder inputs or absolute encoders, usually serial ones) so the loop can be closed in LinuxCNC with both types of control, makes life easier during use. Given the choice between analog and step/dir, choose step/dir.

Again the memory area is disabled, you might try the setpci option

Also, if Linux runs and accesses the card, you may be able to bypass the mesaflash issue with:

sudo mesaflash --recover --device recover  --write 5i25_7i77x2.bit

Take pictures of both cards and post them here, do not touch the jumpers.
Did you y any chance set them to "setup mode" or something like that? been to long so i am a bit fuzzy....

If the sim runs probe basic works. Your mqchine configuration was wrong.

As i stated in the fb group. You can i stall the deb with gdebi instead of using dpkg and it will find the missing dependencies. You seem to be making this much more difficult than it needs to be.

Once installed, run the probale basic sinulation from the Linuxcnc application chooser. That tells you definitively if the installation is correct. You should be able to run probasic take it out of e-stop select power Hit The ref all button and watch the Sim work if you can do this the installation is correct.

Now your actual EMCO configuration is wrong it needs to be fixed that will never run the way it is until you go through the machine configuration section of the docs in the pro basic documentation website and make sure that your machine configuration is set up correctly.

Like I said, clunks while moving an axis.
No Clunks or weird behaviour in still stand/idle.

I cant reproduce the issue sadly. Happens randomly.

So installed a new Debian 12 Bookworm Linux on a new SSD exactly as per instructions here:

kcjengr.github.io/probe_basic/probe_basi...develop_install.html

... and I cannot install LinuxCNC because:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linuxcnc-uspace:
 linuxcnc-uspace depends on libboost-python1.74.0 (>= 1.74.0+ds1); however:
  Package libboost-python1.74.0 is not installed.
 linuxcnc-uspace depends on libboost-python1.74.0-py311; however:
  Package libboost-python1.74.0-py311 is not installed.
 linuxcnc-uspace depends on libgpiod2 (>= 1.5.1); however:
  Package libgpiod2 is not installed.
 linuxcnc-uspace depends on libmodbus5 (>= 3.1.4); however:
  Package libmodbus5 is not installed.
... etc

I have been round this loop before, which is why I installed the combined Bookwork and LinuxCNC package; but then Probe basic doesn't work.

Ok guys, 

• got a totally new PC (dell optiplex 5050)
• install a completely new image of linuxCNC
• put the 6i25 board in 
• The LSPCI command seems to find the board and the daym mesaflash still cant find the board!The PC is not hooked up to anything but power and internet. 
• Mesaflash is up to date...according to the Synaptic manager....(3.4.9)

 

what in the name of the gods am i doing wrong???? Please help

What LinuxCNC version is being run?

There was an encoder index bug fixed Nov 2022:

github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/commit/6bf6...afbf95c84f4fbb44f138
 

Hello,
I tested on an Orange Pi5 Plus and noticed that the jerk was not always maintained.

the ini and the nc code in the appendix.
In addition, an NC code generated by a CAM where the jerk is also not maintained.. 

Hi I think my machine is strictly speaking, a router, but its kinda beefy.
photos.app.goo.gl/dXNZCPk8Kuq2EDQT8
I wanted to upgrade it to have a BC swivel head plus a couple of rotaries. This will involve adding a minimum of 4 servos and its unclear to me if I have enough space in existing conduits to work effectively. The main junction box is also way too tightly packed.
The conduits need replacement (cracked, broken and generally worn). I would like to keep the wiring splice free from controller to servo where possible so I need to disconnect the cables somewhere. 
I think most of the connections are correct, but, it is clear that the machine has been tinkered with by someone who probably didn't pay a lot of attention to documentation or detail, so I think its important for me to double check connections.
As of now, I am thinking of:
(a) confirming that the Fagor components work and put them for sale on Ebay.
(b) Remove all wires one at a time, labelling then, and then migrating the entire control box to Linuxcnc, keeping the mounting hardware only.
(c) Adding a second junction box so that I have more space for fingering
 
I do not have 3 phase power at the appropriate voltage, and also, I do not need a 16hp spindle. I need 6hp at most, and was think of downpowering the entire machine to a 220V single phase setup, but I don't have a lot of experience.

The goal is to have a machine that is a full-sized prototyper. I want it to have plenty of capabilities, but lower throughput. I'm doing higher value, highly customized, runs of 20 to 50 per part. Not more. This is not a run day and night auto-loader setup.

Please, would love some comments and general feedback. Happy to add pictures to the album.