Hi Jim Appreciate your quick response , Unless it is real basic I am useless in writing programs , I will have a look at the skeleton to see if any thing I can adapt What other hardware is available as an alternative to drive a couple of analogue lumonics Galvos
Best regartds and Thanks
Peter ( Australia )
-----Original Message----- From: openapc-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:openapc-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Jim Hart Sent: Friday, 21 September 2012 3:13 PM To: openapc@lists.fedorahosted.org Subject: Re: interfacing laser to old Lumonics with RS232
Peter,
in case your dinosaur is still alife and happy, why let him die?
The bad news are: it is not supported out of the box, you would have to write your own scanner controller plug-in in order to control it. There will be a skeleton available as part of the SDK soon (or there already is something online at https://fedorahosted.org/OpenAPC/browser/plugins/libio_sc_skeleton ) which can be used as starting point.
In case you want to replace it by some other hardware: please contact us via the contact form, may be we have a solution for you.
Kind regards
Jim
On 21/09/2012, peter klos peterklos@bigpond.com wrote:
Hi
I am rebuilding a yag laser for laser marking and need to drive the analogue galvo heads , the controller is an old DE 2000 Lumonics with a 68000 processor and communicates via RS232
Attached is the manual , or http://www.gsig.com/scanners/downloads/manuals/12PDE_DE2000_3000.pdf
Could you please advise if APS will communicate with the unit via rs232 or an I wasting my time with a dinosaur product.
I can drive the galvo's via an +/- analogue input so if its not suitable what do you suggest for a driver card or DAC with Beamconstruct
Many thanks Peter