I have a sherline lathe with an IMserv servo control system. I would like to use the hardware and eliminate the deskcnc softeware and drive it with emc2.
Has anyone done that before and can help me over some of the pitfalls? It seems to me that i could bypass the propritary controler card that is serial driven by deskcnc and send the step/direction from the parallel port directly to the servo amps step/dir inputs. Given that the grounds and voltages remain on the amps. The amps are "sv-500's" and have a manual PID adj. on the card. I've read that this could be a problem but i'm willing to try. i'm hoping to get some ideas. I have a 4 axis mill and use emc2 on it and i'm realy happy with it.. NOT so happy with deskcnc..
thanks..