Originally Posted by
PetitFroggie
Hi,
I am just getting started with building a CNC machine for the first time, therefore have a big learning curve ahead.
I got stepper motors and drivers kits for Christmas. The drivers are DM556S (from Stepperonline) and I would like to use LinuxCNC.
I am not 100% sure how to connect them. Can you tell me if each of the following setup would work.
1) Regular parallel port —> MESA 7175 Breakout/FPGAprotection card —> DM556S drivers.
2) MESA 5I25 Superport FPGA —> MESA 7I76 Daughtercard —> DM556S drivers.
3) MESA 7I96 Ethernet interfaced Step&Dir plus I/O —> DM556S Drivers
If you prefer one of these setup over the others or if you have other recommendations, let me know.
Thank you in advance for your help.