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Hi Mark,

here I'm adding some pictures. The spindles accept 8 mm Watchmaker collets from Boley & Leinen and G.Boley, Unfortunately Schaublin B8 does not fit because of the too narrow slot on the shaft of the collets. 

       

Best regards

Hartwig
 

Still busy to rebuild and test, another problem occured with gcode containing umlauts. My german cam is not configurable to avoid äöü in comments. The UI crashes(in my sim) when loading a file containing umlauts in comments.

Hi, thanks for sharing your Maho retrofit experience, very interesting project.

my machine uses DC servos with ±10 V analog control.
I’m currently deciding which Mesa hardware to choose, but I’ve noticed that most of the combinations I had in mind are out of stock.

One of my doubts is regarding communication:

Some people suggest parallel-port-based cards for heavy, real-time work.

Others mention Ethernet-based cards might be better for future expansion.

My concern is whether Ethernet introduces more delay or has less data transfer capability for this kind of servo control — or if I’m completely wrong in that assumption.

Could you share your opinion or recommendations on:

Which Mesa cards you would choose for ±10 V DC servos in a retrofit like mine.

Whether you think Ethernet is a good choice for long-term expandability.

Any reliable sources or distributors where I might be able to get the boards (especially in Latin America, but I’m open to others).

Thanks in advance for any insight!

Okay, I understand what you're saying. One option I'd considered is to connect the driver's OnPos signal to an input on the MESA card to cushion these offsets due to speed and acceleration, so the program doesn't continue reading until they're reached. I don't know if that makes sense or if it's just a wishful thinking.

I guess the easiest is find me on Facebook. Mike Bender, I'm in St Lucie County,but can ship everywhere. 

Also looking into TAILS a linux distro. It also uses TOR.  I am not surprised about VPN's it seemed
like a convenient way to funnel people into specific systems. Kind of like saving everything into
cloud servers except all in real time.  

EEE ist ausgeschaltet (Disable)

Hallo
Mein PC hat 2 Ehternet Ausgänge wenn ich auf beiden sudo chart 99 ping -i .001 -q -c 60000 10.10.10.10 ausführe bekomme ich 10 bis 15 Fehler.
Wenn ich meinen Router Pinge bekomme ich Null Fehler? 192.168.178.1

I have flashed the 5i25_7i74x2.bit on 6i25 am again and if works ( sserial_port_1=021xxxxx)
 

I have two ebay bought used  EXE's on my mill. 602D/5-F  and 602/1-F.  I never did figure out Heidenhains model numbering, so I ended up with one providing 1µm resolution, and the other only 5µm.
How I wired them up is here:
www.forum.linuxcnc.org/12-milling/33035-...0e?start=1340#152364

Those Leinen FM 1 are lovely machines. Please add pictures to your thread. Lots and lots of pictures
Cheers,
Mark

I have LS403's with EXE's feeding into the 7i77 on my mill, and a ROD and modern servo's encoders feeding into a 7i85 on the lathe. As Andy said, any of the mesa cards with encoder inputs will work fine.

I did this on my mill and lathe.

forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=329194

I also have the Mill autostarting LinuxCNC. Good reminder that I need to do this on the lathe.
faq.urveboard.com/books/operating-system.../debian-11-autostart

Is there a simple way to not need to log into my cnc machine? Actually,  is it possible to have linuxcnc fire up automatically too? I want to flip the breaker on my machine and then hit a power on contactor for the servos and be ready to machine. No time to be typing in passwords to drill a hole.   lol

Now that my machine is mostly configured and ive got all the software in it, its not gonna be going online ever again. 

This is probably simple but I can't find it through some searching.
My machine is set up as imperial but I do (basically all) my gcode in metric.
As a result, when AXIS starts it comes up in inches, and I have to change it to metric before touching off tools.  Similarly, the cylinder that represents a tool displays in inches so when I change to mm it's 25 times larger than the job and I can't see anything.
I'm using linuxcnc 2.7.14 and would appreciate any advice.
 

Well it should be a drop-in replacement, I'll take al ook tomorrow.