Boxford v190 cnc

[depronman]

Seconded on mint 19.3. Been using it on my vmc190 without issues. Linuxcnc v2.8

I’m actually running linuxcnc v2.9 something on the orac lathe but that was trying to get a usb pendant to work, however it’s been rock solid so it’s staying on v2.9 with it’s working pendant

I’m using the par port on the m/b on the orac plus one pci add in par port for external buttons inputs

The vmc190 is using a rather more modern m/b with no par port but I managed to get a pci card off eBay second hand that as two par ports so all is good
One think to watch out for when setting the par port in linuxcnc to ‘in’ mode is that a lot of the pins now work as input pins as against the std configuration of output pin, this is great as you get a lot more of the precious input pins but the BOB’s are configured to have the pin as in output pins and as such the option couplers are the wrong way around
This had me fooled for a long time as it appeared that the BOB was not working in ‘in’ mode when it actually was

Paul


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