On 2011-03-10, PrecisionmachinisT wrote:

"Ignoramus27783" wrote in message
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On 2011-03-10, PrecisionmachinisT wrote:

"Ignoramus27783" wrote in message
The latest 10.04 disk with EMC is a great system and works very well.

EMC supports DC servo drives natively, with or without tachometers.


Curious then why did you feel it necessary to buy the PICO interface ?

Pico interface is what sits between the PC's parallel port and servo
drives.


I understand that..

Pretty sure it's not needed for a simple 2axis gang tool lathe with
threading--as long as you using steppers or a gecko the parallel port has
enough pins as is.

no idea

Needless to say, I absolutely require closed loop position feedback....so if
the encoder is is being interpreted by linux, instead of by the gecko then
there goes all of your pinouts ....

This is what is closed loop, EMC closes the loop and gets encoder
signal.

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