You mean an XPC like the one I am using right now? :)

I have new amps.

Tom What is a good day from me to come over and see your set up
this coming week?



Paul Lamar


I can help. If you were in Albuquerque, I would be happy to come over and
talk with you about it... I am sure I would love picking your brain. I am
also a fan of the using rotaries in aircraft applications, but have fallen
in love with sailplanes and have been flying my own German LS3 for years. No
time for power... yet ;-)
Yes I converted my own Kasuga. Mine came with a Bandit III controller which
eventually gave up a puff of smoke and started jerking spasmodically. It
took me a good month full time to do the conversion, which included
installing new Renco encoders, Advanced Motion servo amps, etc. etc.
I am using a small pc (Shuttle XPC) with a 9 year old AMD processor + 1 gig
of ram, and it has plenty of power to make things move fast and smooth.
I use a Mesa Electronics 5i20 board & a 7i33 board to do the encoder
counting and output the -10V to +10V analog servo velocity command.
Here is a link to Mesa's web, check out the motion control cards:
http://www.mesanet.com/

Here is a link to the EMC2 community where you can do a search on any topic
you are interested in and ask questions and get answers.
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.emc.user

Here is a link to an open source forum that I contributed to in which we
developed a design for a cheap servo amplifier to be used with EMC2 and the
Pluto P parallel interface motion controller
<http://www.knjn.com/FPGA-Parallel.html> .

Here is a link to a youtube video in which I tested my servo amplifier /
Pluto P card on my Kasuga.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KviXyvuL8W8

If you have any more questions, just fire away.
If you want to call me, my number is 505-898-5920

Tom



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