-10V to 10v circuit

[vre]

Thank you for all answers.
I will use linuxcnc not mach3 because mach3 does not have the ability to make outer close loop (not real time kernel in windows).
The servos are for a lathe retrofit ( x & z axes) and the vfd is to control the spindle speed and direction (cc or ccw)
The servo has a mode position/speed and from an input signal you can select position or speed (step/dir or analog -10 to +10v).
I want to have the ability to override the speed manually outside from gcode so this is the reason why i want analog -10v to +10v.
Also i want to control vfd from gcode to have constant surface speed and i want to override this speed manually.
Because with parallel port hardware limit exits and i can't output 500khz pulse train (2500cpr encoder) i want a card to manage 500khz step/dir signals.
Do you know some card which can do this work in linux and cooperate with linuxcnc ?

[Neale]

Eddy - I don't think that it's very novel, but to go from 0-5V to -10-10V I would use an op amp in a similar way to the link that Jonathan gave. Personally, I would do it slightly differently; the op amp needs +-12V to make sure that there is enough headroom on the output (unless you find an op amp that can work closer to the supply rails). Use a potential divider across the supply rails (or +12 and 0V), with whatever regulation/zener diode etc you like, to give a fixed 2.5V and connect this to the inverting input via R1. Use a feedback resistor R2 from output to inverting input. R2/R1 = 4 to give correct gain. Take the 0-5V via an appropriate resistor to the non-inverting input. Job done - I think. You could incorporate a bit more smoothing if you are using a PWM analogue "pseudo 0-5V" signal by putting a suitable capacitor in parallel with the feedback resistor.

You would then use this on a 0-5V output from a BOB connected to the LinuxCNC system and LCNC would allow either gcode-controlled speed or could be overridden for manual control from the LCNC control panel. I think - I use LinuxCNC but don't have speed control that way yet (just use VFD controls manually) so I'm not familiar with that bit.

[irving2008]

Thank you for all answers.
I will use linuxcnc not mach3 because mach3 does not have the ability to make outer close loop (not real time kernel in windows).
The servos are for a lathe retrofit ( x & z axes) and the vfd is to control the spindle speed and direction (cc or ccw)
The servo has a mode position/speed and from an input signal you can select position or speed (step/dir or analog -10 to +10v).
I want to have the ability to override the speed manually outside from gcode so this is the reason why i want analog -10v to +10v.
Also i want to control vfd from gcode to have constant surface speed and i want to override this speed manually.
Because with parallel port hardware limit exits and i can't output 500khz pulse train (2500cpr encoder) i want a card to manage 500khz step/dir signals.
Do you know some card which can do this work in linux and cooperate with linuxcnc ?

I think you're still confusing analogue servo operation with step/direction.

You can use the servo
a) with analogue voltage control and encoder feedback for closed loop positioning OR
b) with step/direction pulse train open loop or closed loop with encoder feedback

You can't use step/direction AND analogue voltage together, they are different operating modes of the servo amplifier/driver. A CSMIO/IP motion control card will do what you need and works with Mach3 (it does closed loop control outside of Mach3), don't know about LinuxCNC: the CSMIO/IP-S will do step/direction, the CSMIO/IP-A will do +/-10v analogue. Both will provide the spindle VFD speed/direction output.