Just got it Thursday. Went down to the shippers and picked it up to save a little freight.
There's a few loose screws, some of the little ones. And the main electronics case door didn't shut properly. A little tweaking fixed it though. Had to get a 90deg prong receptacle to plug it in and it took a while to figure out how to start it in manual mode. Turned the key, flicked the switches, nothing.... oh wait, the green button... dohhh. This thing is smooth and HIGH rpm.
Building a controller PC from an outdated Windows box that was in the closet, here's the specs
MB Asus P5P800
Processor Intel P4 630 LGA775 3.0Ghz
4 ct 1GB Corsair DDR1 400mhz PC3200 (4GB total ram)
120gb SATA3 SSD
PNY Nvidia Quadro FX3000
Win XP home SP2
I ran the Mach drivertest.exe and got <4uS interrupt timing variation, so this thing should work. This is with the PC's old install, it's really cluttered with no configuration for Mach. This will be a fresh install, only the minimum software necessary, and configured for Mach per Mach and Tormach.
Tormach wouldn't tell me what MB and processor is in their Controller PC but I found the specs in the sales literature. It's a Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz processor with 1 gig ram.
Now I just have to decide what's the first part to be made.
There's a few loose screws, some of the little ones. And the main electronics case door didn't shut properly. A little tweaking fixed it though. Had to get a 90deg prong receptacle to plug it in and it took a while to figure out how to start it in manual mode. Turned the key, flicked the switches, nothing.... oh wait, the green button... dohhh. This thing is smooth and HIGH rpm.
Building a controller PC from an outdated Windows box that was in the closet, here's the specs
MB Asus P5P800
Processor Intel P4 630 LGA775 3.0Ghz
4 ct 1GB Corsair DDR1 400mhz PC3200 (4GB total ram)
120gb SATA3 SSD
PNY Nvidia Quadro FX3000
Win XP home SP2
I ran the Mach drivertest.exe and got <4uS interrupt timing variation, so this thing should work. This is with the PC's old install, it's really cluttered with no configuration for Mach. This will be a fresh install, only the minimum software necessary, and configured for Mach per Mach and Tormach.
Tormach wouldn't tell me what MB and processor is in their Controller PC but I found the specs in the sales literature. It's a Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz processor with 1 gig ram.
Now I just have to decide what's the first part to be made.