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The linuxcnc support is the big question.
It is neat to buy a ready-made box but you still need to have a place for stepper motor drivers so it is only half the solution.

Gents,

I'm slowly preparing items and knowledge to make my plasma cutter based on Hypertherm Powermax 45 XP (just received CPC port upgrade kit). I have a specific conditions - at work for 4 weeks and away from home/garrage and i could only take limited set of toys with me:
- Lenovo T470 with Linuxcnc installed
- Mesa 7i95T
- 2 x THCAD (for THC and ohmic)
- some limit switches
- 3 x H-bridge and 3 x small PM DC servo motors
- bunch of wires
- old laptop power supply to power those servos.

That's all i have to play with LinuxCNC and learn configuration, etc. Ideally i'd like to make those servos live on my bench.
I couldn't take "real" servos and drivers due to weight limitation - my only option was to take those small servos and h-bridge modules. 
If i understand things correctly, out-of-the-box mesa cards are preloaded with firmware containing Step/dir generators and can't be used to control -bridge based servos it this state. So i need to build a specific firmware to replace step gens with pwm generators, right?
I'm stepping here into very dark area for me - creating custom bit file.
I heard that custom bit file are now easier to create with the new FPGA chips on Mesa cards - is it true?
I case of my failure - would it be possible to get some help from you to create custom bitfile? The only source i found is talla83 videos on yt.

Thank you for inputs and have a great weekend.

Thanks guys. I ended up taking T470 with touch screen. Added Linuxcnc along with already existing Win and 7i96 works with no issues (on the table for now). Just received 7i95T today to have some fun but this requires some deeper tweaking - for separate topic. Thanks again - computer topic solved for me.

HI Tommy,

Yes it did. The week before I had a loose screw rattling around in  in my pendant cause a short, which tripped that fuse. I removed the screw and reset the fuse.

Hi Peter,
With only CR8 lighting up (steady) with this 7i84 plugged into its SS cable, and field power disconnect, is this board worth soldering new output IC's onto, or is it pining for the fiords dead?
Cheers,
Mark

Can Phill or Snowgoer have a look at this issue? Sorry I thought it was wider than QTPlasmac but further testing shows it only affects QTP.
forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...-on-buildbot2#324519
This is on a SIM only and I need to upgrade a live config
Thanks

Ooops, this is QTplasmac specific and that is jut opening a Sim already on my PC. But I do need to edit a live sim
 

I adjusted the apt settings so Debian gets  the buildbot2 deb file for LinuxCNC V 2.10. 
The upgrade of linuxcnc was sucessful.
When I open a config from the consiole, a window appears that says 
Updated to V2.10-001.017, Due to Configuration a Restart is required
I open the config and I get the same error
I reboot and I get the same error
I though tthen to check the ini fil to make sure it is not read only. It was so I updated the permisssions to write to it.
But I still can't open any config,  

How do I resolve this?