New CNC Controller for Milling Machine

[antsals]

Just looking at the CNC contoller card I'm going to purchase decided to go for a different card rather than running Mach3. What is a watchdog on a cnc contoller card? http://www.slidesandballscrews.com/c....html?cPath=64

Cheers
Ant

[Gary]

its the Enable.

Just looking at the CNC contoller card I'm going to purchase decided to go for a different card rather than running Mach3. What is a watchdog on a cnc contoller card? http://www.slidesandballscrews.com/c....html?cPath=64

Cheers
Ant

[AdCNC]

As Gary says, i have this wired up to enable and disable my servo drives, have a look here http://www.edingcnc.com/index.php?pagina=producten this is where i got mine from. direct from bert himself. Very helpful person.

[Robin Hewitt]

What is a watchdog on a cnc contoller card?

A 'watchdog' is computer slang for a seperate timer circuit. Everytime you access the card it resets the watchdog timer. If the computer stops accessing the card the watchdog timer times out and presses the panic button.