Hurco ultimax ultimax 2 ultimac3 breakout board idea

It seems there are a lot of these machines getting retrofits. i have 3 myself. 

1. Is anyone here capable of doing the circuit design ? 
2. Set up a repository of baseline configs
3. Designs adapter cables boards etc for other machines ??
4. Dedign for mesa card configurations

I'd be willing to put some $$ in the pot to get started. 

Any profits goto LinuxCNC  community. Last time i searched there were no less than 15 h6rco bmc 20 30 etc machine retrofits. If successful, could expand to otger common control systems. Reducing pain if retrofits is a win for everyone

 

What price frame are you thinking of?
1 yes and no, yes i can, no i would rather do 3 actual retrofits than do circuit design.
2 I have one attached to my retrofit log, not the final one so no idea what is missing or how did i loose the final one!
3 This is where the price comes in, they use Honda connectors, not sure if they can be found or at what price, but pretty sure not cheap, although there are 4 of them, so even at 50$ a piece still not expensive.
4 Mesa 7i97 should do just fine if it has 32 inputs and 16 outputs, if it has less a 7i84 will suffice, there are not much IO there as the tool changer has it's own board.
This also leaves the PC at the console and only two cables going there instead of a bunch of them, one for power the other STP/RJ45, simplifies things a lot.
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Making Honda to Mesa connectors, Mesa to tool changer, and the e-stop, enable, etc.
BTW the original drives output 0-3V depending on motor load, so adding an arduino/ESP32 with good 12 bit ADC is preferable since LinuxCNC can adjust feed depending on load, would save a lot of tools.

I'd value those adapter boards, base machine setup images at $800-1000 .

My time is valuable, it's better spent on part development etc.

I'm sure many machine owners would pay that for a good plug and play solution

what do the boards look like (photos + connectors),

do you have dims of the board / connector positions?

Some pictures here:
forum.linuxcnc.org/30-cnc-machines/33529-hurco-bmc-20p-retrofit

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I was curious what connectors plus how many would be required.

next thing, anyone got a manual what those 11 connectors do?

I see AliExpress has those connectors for about $10 a piece..... maybe .... it was just a quick search when honda connectors were mentioned