DECKEL FP2 Resurrected ! First run after putting CSMIO/IP-A and SimCNC running on Regolith OS скачать в хорошем качестве

DECKEL FP2 Resurrected ! First run after putting CSMIO/IP-A and SimCNC running on Regolith OS

First GCode run after small repair of original BOSH TR servpack and going CSMIO/IP-A + SimCNC route. Very impressive ! A bit of hassle was with X axis - a bit of wiggling, shaking - but fortunately it was only dirty linear encoder (original Heidenheins - those were with analog interface, so 3 EXE modules were added to get incremental, RS422 compatible signals for encoder feedback to CSMIO/IP-A). Electric cabinet almost not changed, CSMIO fitted very well, in terms of spacing and electric signals). Besides servopack and servo-motors, linear encoders I left original spindle motor (2 speed windings) and spindle gear (3 little DC motors + 3 position switches on each motor) untouched. Just programmed Python macros for it using info from DECKEL manual and SimCNC manages them easily, then i wrote routine to select gear with rpm closest to S word commanded in GCode and voila! This time I used Linux for OS for SimCNC. Firstly, because this PC was lacking compute power to the official specifications for SimCNC and I wanted to just move axes and not wait for another PC. I also checked how tilling window manager would feel for a CNC machine and how SimCNC would be handled, so I downloaded Regolith LTS version based on Ubuntu 20.04 so SimCNC installer won't notice that this isn't Ubuntu 20.04 which it so eagerly requires... And it was good! Less using mouse, more use of keyboard and without classc floating windows feels more like real motion control software for CNC. And I think performance is a bit better also, so this first PC stayed for good now in machine! :)