Need help to wire and config Mesa 7i92TM

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3 years 4 months ago #273166 by CollieBabaX
Sorry the jumpers were both down.
Now with ping 10.10.10.10 in the terminal works, the average ping is ~0.4ms.
And with "mesaflash --addr 10.10.10.10 --device=ETHER --readhmid" it let me see the configurations.
Thank you andy, very much appreciated. Can you help me with wiring the stepper drivers?
I don't want to make mistakes.

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3 years 4 months ago #273173 by CollieBabaX
Or I have to connect the stepper motors directly to the bob?
And why the I/O numeration on pncconf is different than the one in mesa card configuration? (in the terminal)

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3 years 4 months ago #273284 by andypugh
No, you connect the stepper motors to stepper drivers (A+, A- B+ B-) and then connect the stepper drivers to LinuxCNC (step/dir)

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3 years 4 months ago #273312 by CollieBabaX
Ok. And what about the different pin numeration list? Can I change it manually? I looked at the "my_LinuxCNC_machine.ini" file but I didn't found the I/O list.

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3 years 4 months ago - 3 years 4 months ago #273313 by Aciera
Never mind. You found the break out board long ago. Not sure why I did not see all of the other posts. Head scratch...
Last edit: 3 years 4 months ago by Aciera.

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3 years 4 months ago #273324 by andypugh

Ok. And what about the different pin numeration list? Can I change it manually? I looked at the "my_LinuxCNC_machine.ini" file but I didn't found the I/O list.
 
There are several pin numbering schemes throughout the system, and they don't line up for fairly good reasons. 

There are the GPIO numbers associated with the FPGA, which in turn do not align to the pin numbers on the chip. 
Then each of these is connected to a pin on the DB25 connector or HD50 connector.
Then, on the Mesa daughter boards the terminal block numbers are another numbering scheme, and these don't match the DB25 numbering, partly because there are lots more of them on many cards because the DB25 is partly carrying serial data. 

Then the firmware on the FPGA determines which pin stepgen.0.step is on, for example (and this part _can_ be changed by changing the firmware) 

You can get the actual pin numbers that you need, and the information about where each with mesaflash. 
Code:
mesaflash --addr 10.10.10.10 --device 7i92 --readhmid

Will give you a printout which lists what is on each IO pin number, what the associated DB25 pin number or header pin number is,  and which FPGA IO pin it is. 
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