Originally Posted by willhrt
hi andy,
yeh youre right, from what i can remember the unimatic doesnt use step-direction, and it does run off a serial port. we had the idea of using a parallel to serial convertor but i guess this isnt going to work, neither will soldering up a parallel-serial conversion. as weve spent ages gettting this far i dont think learning serial port protocol and writing drivers is an option- has anyone done this before?
alternatively the emc2 manual specifies a few other pci cards, could we plug the unimatic serial plug into any of these or are we stumped?
thanks
will