I'm doing a retrofit to pc based control on a large Sharnoa SD-900 mill. I 'm using the new Generation 2 controller board and deskcnc software, but I need to use rutex drives (series 2020 40 a. 220v) to use the original servo motors from the Sharnoa. Using US digital encoders (500 line) and I've built a 2kva 140 volt servo power supply. Has anyone interfaced the Deskcnc
Gen 2 board to rutex drives? The gen 2 board hooks to the computer via
serial cables and the Rutex mother board accepts parallel port cables. If anyone has any insite into this please reply to this post. :wave:

You just take the step and direction lines from the DeckCNC board to the drives. If you're using the Rutex motherboard, you may want to make up a cutom cable.

I kind of thought that would be the way to proceed. I plan on using the gen 2 deskcnc board to turn on/off the spindle and use the limit switch imputs to that board as well. I havent completed plotting out the parallel conection to the rutex mother board yet, but that doesn't seem to be too much of a problem. This is going to be my christmas break project, and hope to have it running just after new years. If this works out as planned this will be one heavy duty machine with 32" X travel, 17"
Y travel and 8 inches of Z travel on the quill. Thanks for your input on my question.

I have a sharnoa tiger 3 and looking to upgrade from the 741 computer to a pc based control. I'd like to know how your project ended up.