5 axis milling machine with 7i96s

Gautham wrote:

Hi PCW,

I found a card locally that seems similar to the Sainsmart breakout you had mentioned. I'll add the link below. It says its for Mach3 and LinuxCnc, would this work with my Mesa 7i96s. Thanks so much for your help. Interface Board CNC 5 Axis
 

Yes, that looks exactly like a Sainsmart ST-V2 so 7i96s_5abobd.bin firmware
will work with that.

Thank you so much PCW

Hi again,So I finally got this BoB,  and I have wired up everything according to this video tutorial I found, but I don't know how to configure my B-axis to run through the BoB on LinuxCNC. I also managed to flash the 7i96s_5abobd.bin firmware to the mesa card but I'm not sure how to proceed on LinuxCNC
Thank you so much for your help.

I would probably use pncconfs discovery option so pncconf knows about the
additional stepgens so you can configure the B axis.
 

Thanks for the reply PCW. I was going through pncconfs and I couldn't find anything like discovery(Im new to LinuxCNC). While going through pncconfs I was a little confused because I flashed the 7i96s_5abobd.bin file but I couldn't find this as an option in pncconf as you can see in the image below. Anyways, I tried all three of the options that were there and none of them gave me the option of adding the BoB. Thank you for your help

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Discovery is an option in the board name menu:


 


Then:


 


Next setup the card name and communication details:


 


This shows the additional stepgens, encoders and PWMgens after discovery
Using 7i96s_5abob. bin firmware on the 7I96S: