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One should always RFTM, it's a good practice to follow unless you are quite financially well off, have plenty of time to spare and have the patience of a saint.

Or some other poor sod is setting everything up and you have 100% trust in them.

Do you have a link to the drive manual or at least the the I/O connections?

You can use MesaCT to generate 7I97/7I97T compatible configurations
plus theres a sample 7i97/7i97t configuration. I think this is in the 7I97T
software support zip file, if not, I can post it here.

Yes, that should be correct.

Thx, this is how my setup looks like... 



So if I understood your answer correctly - I replace R1 (currently 10k) with 110k, which gives me 10k (110k & 11k in parallel). 
Will try that tomorrow....

thx!!

Sometimes, powering enable inputs disables the drive, it's really weird.

Is PNCConf applicable to your setup by chance?

The manual is written in clumsy English for sure.

English is probably not their first language (I assume German is their first).

cache.industry.siemens.com/dl/files/782/...5/v1/FBU_0510_en.pdf

SIDE NOTE:

English and German are similar, but different enough that trying to morph Gerrman into English gives clumsy, unclear, but technically valid English.

Maybe it's bettter to learn a language different enough from one you already know, otherwise you might conflate the two languages.

I do not know German.

I know English, that's all.

gedit is GNOME.

LinuxCNC is usually XFCE (at least the default ISO has XFCE installed by default).

I would recommend starting with AXIS, there's a reason it's the default GUI.

It is super stable, and most (if not all) the kinks have been worked out over the couse of time.

Is this a parallel port setup?

A picture would be helpful to visualise what you are describing.

If this is the standard SainSmart V2  5 Axis BOB, then
7i96_5abob_d.bit firmware would be the appropriate.

The existing hal file should be close (the PWM output just moves
to the BOB) There may be polarity/frequency changes needed
with the PWM output.

You would need to add the 5th axis stuff to the hal/ini files

The code in my hal file is now
# --- SPINDLE-AT-SPEED ---
net ext_spindle-at-speed <= hm2_7i76e.0.7i76.0.0.input-12
setp lut5.0.function 0x0d
net spindle-enable lut5.0.in-0
net ext_spindle-at-speed lut5.0.in-1
net spindle-at-speed lut5.0.out

if I use hal meter to view the pins on lut5.0 the inputs have the expected values depending on whether the spindle is on or off and whether it is up to speed or not, but the output is always false.

What am I missing?

thanks unknown,  Sorry.  Enough said.    Eventually i wanted to try and get this arm under LinuxCnc control,   So a tiny bit on topic,   maybe i should have led with that.   or started a new thread . 

my servos, BOB, and power supply should be in by the end of the week.   I have been reading about the HAL, and the stepconf wizard.
 I will be using the clearpath SDSK-2321S-RQN  DC servo

i am trying to read up on the  stepconf wizard?    that is next  , and  i need to  read the servo manual as well

thanks



 

Ok this has got way off topic and is starting to get into topics far away from Linuxcnc.
For a detailed how-to on the use of the serial port please read this document.
tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html
This should cover everything regarding the serial port, the tldp site has a lot of docs regarding basic Linux usage.

Oh and please stop inserting random question marks, it's makes it hard to work out what you are on about.

i must be doing something pretty dumb,   i tried this on the ancient Dell D620  dual booted with windows XP and Ubuntu14? from about  years ago   and i got the same problem.    This is the known good computer to interact with the robot arm , but in windows XP with putty or the robot native software that i think was windows 95.    This native software is not perfect and won't compile a program, but it will run the arm from the terminal

So maybe it is not my current version of ubuntu12.

Please don't ask how i got the ubuntu 14.  

what about   something like this

" sudo apt-get install minicom # Install if not present
minicom -D /dev/ttyUSB0 -b 115200 # Connect to device at 115200 baud

but replace the usb0 with S0, and then fix the rest  baud R, and parity, etc
 

I was able to resolve it.

Apparently a plain text editor is necessary. Once I copied into Notebook++ and then into the nc files directory, everything started working.

I appreciate your answer and willingness to help.

I already understood how to do that conversion.