5i25 and 7i78x2 support in Pncconf

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05 Jul 2012 14:10 #21609 by diegoroman17
Hi guys,

I have 5i25 and 7i78 mesa cards but in Pncconf I not found support for this cards. How I can to solve this problem?thanks

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05 Jul 2012 16:38 #21619 by andypugh
diegoroman17 wrote:

I have 5i25 and 7i78 mesa cards but in Pncconf I not found support for this cards. How I can to solve this problem?thanks

You can build the HAL file by hand. I prefer doing it that way and it isn't all that difficult (though it is slightly tedious)

You need a list of the 7i78 pins, which can be obtained by following the instructions here:
www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/compo...id=49&id=21529#21540

You can then edit them into one of the sample Hostmot2 configurations.

The 7i78 is a cut-down 7i76, so you could just follow the instructions elsewhere for configuring a 7i76 in pncconf and change the names afterwards.

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05 Jul 2012 19:55 #21632 by diegoroman17
In the 5i25 manual in the section "supplied configurations" say that 7i78x2 is supplied for mesa is this true? In 7i78x2 say that 7i78 configuration have two pwm and gpio but 7i76 dont have pwm output and I need pwm outputs.

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05 Jul 2012 20:07 #21633 by andypugh
diegoroman17 wrote:

In the 5i25 manual in the section "supplied configurations" say that 7i78x2 is supplied for mesa is this true? In 7i78x2 say that 7i78 configuration have two pwm and gpio but 7i76 dont have pwm output and I need pwm outputs.


The PWM output may drive the spindle speed analogue output.

I could re-flash my 6i25 with the 7i78x2 firmware, but that would be slightly awkward at the moment.

PCW probably knows the answer, but might not be around at the moment.

If you open a console and type:
halrun
loadrt hostmot2
loadrt hm2_pci
exit
dmesg

Do you see any mention of PWM outputs?

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05 Jul 2012 20:20 #21635 by diegoroman17
Thanks guy. I have not installed this card in my computer yet. in about another week I get these cards, but I wanted to advance a little work because it's part of my engineering thesis.

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05 Jul 2012 20:50 #21636 by PCW
The 7I78x2 config has 2 PWM outputs (one for the spindle analog output circuit on each 7I78)
there no reason that a new configuration could not be made with one of the 4 STEP/DIR output
pairs sacrificed to give a couple more 5V buffered PWM outputs

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05 Jul 2012 21:08 #21637 by diegoroman17
Ok Now I understand thank you. Could you give me the 5i25 7i78x2 for Pncconfig please?

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06 Jul 2012 05:23 #21640 by cmorley
unfortunately I need add the pin names of the 7i78 into pncconf so the XML file will not help you.
If someone could post the HAL pin and param names for the 7i78 that would be great.

Chris M

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06 Jul 2012 13:59 #21647 by PCW
The 7I78 is very basic with
4 stepgens
1 PWM (for spindle analog)
1 encoder
1 sserial (expansion, theres no I/O on the 7I78 except whats listed))

so the 7i78x2 config has ths set of I/O on both connectors

freeby.mesanet.com/7i78x2.pin has the pinout

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06 Jul 2012 14:20 - 06 Jul 2012 14:22 #21649 by diegoroman17
I upload the pins of 7i78x2...

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