Emco PC Turn 55 retrofit

PCW wrote: Those issues are not likely to be latency related, even 100s of usec of latency
have negligible effect on the step generation and the maximum step rate is
complete unrelated to latency with Mesa cards.

If you have poor latency (but good enough to avoid real time errors)
You do need to have the DPLL setup and enabled to be able to generate
clean step signals.

How would I check this?

The Feral Engineer wrote:

PCW wrote: Those issues are not likely to be latency related, even 100s of usec of latency
have negligible effect on the step generation and the maximum step rate is
complete unrelated to latency with Mesa cards.

If you have poor latency (but good enough to avoid real time errors)
You do need to have the DPLL setup and enabled to be able to generate
clean step signals.

How would I check this?

You should have something like this in your hal file:


Note if the latency is really bad you may have to increase the time to 100 usec or so
because of baseline drift.

Thanks Peter

I'll check it out when I get back on the pi. I reconnected my laptop for my turret prove out. Pi is my endgame, but it's a pain in the rear with the keyboard and monitor sitting on top of the machine.

I set the pi back up, have it hooked to an asus touch screen and I've been able to do some playing. I did an isolcpus = 2,3 and I have a better servo-thread jitter result than not having any isolcpus (130000 vs 280000 if I load chromium and start playing youtube videos). I have my servo timing set to 140000 in my ini file and as long as I don't use wifi with the machine enabled, it seems to run pretty reliably. If I try to surf the web and jog the machine, it isn't happy about it at all, which is fine.

I haven't tried the DPLL thing yet, I actually came on here to read up on how to do it and figured I'd give an update on it.

Please I am begging you, my school has got one of these and we can’t index the turret, any help would be appreciated

Sorry, haven't been on this forum in a long time. Does your machine have the original software or has it been converted?

I am searching for a AC95 controller left over from a retrofit.  If anyone has a spare laying around to sell please contact me.
calmissile at geeemail dot com

Thanks,
Doug
 

Hello, 

i'm searching for help to make a retrofit of my PC Turn 55II from Emco. The Mesa7i76ED Board is not available and i have no idea wich Mesa board is equal to the 7i76ED.

Thanks,
Martin

Nope, nothing there, yet.
Says "soon"...

7i96S
www.welectron.com/Mesa-Electronics-7i96S...thernet-Controller_1
eusurplus.com/index.php?route=product/pr...62_71&product_id=159
7i76E
www.welectron.com/Mesa-Electronics-7i76E...thernet-Controller_1
eusurplus.com/index.php?route=product/pr..._62_71&product_id=50

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