Originally Posted by
Dan2464
Hi Niklas,
I'm in the building stages using one of DMM's 750w kits with the DYN2 drives. It came with their BOB and I think you need to use it to run their drives so you won't need the 7i25. I'm going to be using Linuxcnc but with the Pathpilot frontend on it. I got that working on a friends Enco mill and it is a very nice front end.
You only need one computer as you can dual boot the same computer with windows or Linuxcnc. Use windows to tune the drives then boot into Linux to run the CNC software.
Other than that follow DMM's wiring guide and you should be good. The hard part is tweaking the INI files in Linuxcnc to get it all talking the way you want it along with the bit file for the Mesa card. But nice thing is all the answers are right here on the zone. Someone somewhere will be doing a version of what you are and will have answers or can guide you in the right direction. Keep after it. Nothing is more satisfying than seeing one of your machines run after you build it.