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    Kin
    I see you have an iopener displayed on your site.
    I also have one and was wondering if the iopener had enough guts to run a cnc mill, I don't recall
    if the parallel port is/was available.
    Any thoughts?
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    Hi Jerry,

    We only use the I-opener as a remote display. The Dell computer shown on it's side is what is running EMC. It's at the bottom of the cabinet. As far as using the i-openener by itself, it should be possible as long as it's dedicated to the milling operations only.

    For EMC you need a minimum of
    An old P133 with 16-32Mb RAM, a 500Mb IDE hard drive, and a CDROM drive that can be booted from. If you want good performance from stepper motors, a Pentium 233 or better is recommended.

    Kin Fong

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    Originally posted by Jan
    Kin
    I see you have an iopener displayed on your site.
    I also have one and was wondering if the iopener had enough guts to run a cnc mill, I don't recall
    if the parallel port is/was available.
    Any thoughts?
    jerry


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    You know, I don't recall a parallel port on the I-Opener.

    Kin

    Originally posted by kfong
    Hi Jerry,

    We only use the I-opener as a remote display. The Dell computer shown on it's side is what is running EMC. It's at the bottom of the cabinet. As far as using the i-openener by itself, it should be possible as long as it's dedicated to the milling operations only.

    For EMC you need a minimum of
    An old P133 with 16-32Mb RAM, a 500Mb IDE hard drive, and a CDROM drive that can be booted from. If you want good performance from stepper motors, a Pentium 233 or better is recommended.

    Kin Fong

    http://www.embeddedtronics.com/


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    Kin
    yes, it has a parallel port, just checked, but seem to recall some discussion on the iopener forum about the only
    printer that was capable of use was some specific brand.
    I'll have to go back and look this up.
    Thanks
    jerry



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    I don't think you need to worry about that, I believe it's just a standard parallel port.

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    Originally posted by FRAMEDNLV
    I still would like to know where to get the chip. I have been looking for about a month now. Where did you get your?
    Chris
    You could ask for samples from www.allegromicro.com
    Unfortunately, they don't send to my country

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    Default contribution..

    Yes, if you loose track of what you are doing, by thinking about the furture (in my case) you may have to backtrack a bit.

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