Spectralight 0200 controller ?

[snapman]

Oops...

http://www.lightmachines.com/softwar...ks/accept.html

Sorry 'bout that.

[ZipSnipe]

SWEET, I tried to find that on their website with no luck, I am able to switch the HD to another pc but the windows system on the hd has a password so now I want to see if I can get this software loaded into the newer pc and see if I can get it to run the mill, if I can get the ISA card to work in the newer pc which has an ISA slot.
Thanx

[Bowman]

So I gutted it besides the electronic speed control and added bipolar steppers and a Xylotex 3 axis control board. To do that your looking at about $250-300 for everything you need. Then you can run any of the apps you want to use for the most part while not being stuck with the OEM software and hardware limitations. Updating to whats out there today and you can have a machine with better resolution since you can microstep 1/8s. All depending on what you want to do.

As for moving the card to another machine thats doable as well and if the software works for you use it. Just don't put to much money or effort trying to make a Pinto into a Ferrari.


Good luck with it and remember even if you can find a smokin machine with that old slot type the card is still the bottleneck and anything over a 486 is likely overkill. I run mine using TCNC and a Pentium 200 under DOS.



Mojo

[ZipSnipe]

Ahaa the software on that link is just an upgrade. Well I guess I,ll see how much they charge for their software. I,m hoping to contact the school(where I bought it from) on monday and maybe by some stroke of luck locate the teacher who put the password in. Otherwise if worse come to worse I,ll just pick up a new controller and go that route, which what I heard some other Spectralight owners doing.

[ZipSnipe]

Hey Bowman , thanx for the input. So if I go with new steppers and the Xylotex 3 axis controller, I can ditch the card,crap pc and the light machines controller?(maybe keep the case and power supply?)

[ZipSnipe]

Hey Thanx Snap, called up Intelitek like ya said and they hooked me up with a link for the software. They will only give ya the link if your serial number is the long one( a short one is only 4 digit). Its purring like a kitten now. The hard drive on the old pc took a crap so I transferred the card over to a newer(old nec) with isa slot, adjusted the setting in bios (switched from pci to isa) and loaded the software and all is good. Hopefully will be making chips here after while. Pics coming once I build a table for everything to go on(the wife is disgusted with my office as I have pc guts everywhere)

Thanx again Snap


U da man !!!!!

[snapman]

Glad I could help. Will look forward to seeing your setup when you post the pics.

[shannon_haworth]

This is an old thread I realize. However I have created a simple cable that may eliminate the need to retrofit these mills in order to run parallel port based software such as EMC2. I announced my findings in this thread.