Motion Contol Problem

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From: sanesh bodasing
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:00

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Hi,                                                                                  
I am a final year engineering student at the University of Natal - South
Africa. My design project involves improving a 3 axis filament winding
system. The system uses 3 dc permanent magnet servo motors and the
drives had been irrepairably damaged, so as dc servo drives are very
expensive, i tested the motors on normal 4-quandrant regen dc drives and
they seemed to work very well, so we bought 3 of them.

However the motion control card attached to the pc is an obsolute Motion
Engineering MC-400 4 axis card, manufactured in 1990. The problem is
that when the machine was ordered, no software was sent for the card,
this makes programming the card impossible, as there are no library
functions available.

Attempts to contact Motion Eng. have been useless, we even faxed them an
official university letterhead asking for help.

Is there anyone out there who does have these files (eg mc.c + library
functions)
or knows of any compatable software we can use to pogram the card in
"C", as the university does not have the money to import (none made in
South Africa) a new card.

Any help will be greatly appriciated

Regards
Sanesh Bodasing
e-mail: bodasings@eng.und.ac.za

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Date: 1999/09/28
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