Small lathe conversion

Biersmythe wrote: Thanks Rod for conferming. Well ill also need a windows pc to go with the cable.

You might be able to use VirtualBox or similar.

The JMC-motor.com IHHS57-36-20 2nm integrated closed loop stepper is only 283ozin, however it acts like a 425ozin open loop stepper, since you not having to have overhead in ozin to stop missed steps. At $114 vs clearpath's $257 it's worth playing around with a bit. They also have a tuner box that as soon as I get one I'll be reverse engineering to figure out a linux util for.

Cheers Robi

Well I have made a little progress with the build...at least on the computer side. I got my ZOTAC ZBOX C Series Passive Cooling Mini PC loaded with Linux mint 18.1, (shout out to cncnoob1979 for the awesome writeup) PREEMPT RT kernel 4.8.11-rt7, Linuxcnc 2.7.8 and an ASUS VT207 touchscreen that just works. Its time to purchase the 7i76e mesa card, and decide on what VFD I'm going to use for the spindle. After a lot of thinking, I am going to go the Clearpath SDSK route unless someone has a good reason not to. They are quiet, compact and fast. I am sure I will have more questions coming up. Thank you all for the help.