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IB-98000 Motor Inductor Board for Galil Switching Amplifiers
Galil now offers the IB-98000 Inductor Board for adding inductance to motors for use with Galil's switching amplifiers. Read more here:
Drivers for DMC-41X3 USB virtual COM port
The DMC-41x3 motion controller has a USB port available for controller communications. When connected to a PC USB port, the DMC-41x3 will be accessible on a virtual COM port, analogous to RS232.
Step-by-step manual PID tuning of Galil motor controllers
There are many ways to tune the Galil PID filter, ranging from auto-tuning methods in GalilTools or WSDK, to an assortment of manual methods. For the novice user, how to manually tune the PID filter may not be easy nor obvious. A new manual tuning method gives the user a simple to follow, step-
Getting Started with Galil and C++ Programming
Programming the Galil motion controller from a high level language such as C or C++ can be overwhelming at first glance, but upon closer inspection – it is actually very straightforward. This article shows how to compile the “Hello World” type of application that is included in the GalilTools installation and then goes on to more advanced topics of how to create a new C++ Class specific to your motion control application.
C++, Accessing Legacy Windows Registry Information for GalilTools
Legacy software such as SmartTerminal and WSDK employed the Windows registry to store registered controller information (connection point, serial number, etc). GalilTools and the bundled library do away with this extra information and allow the user to directly specify the connection point (e.g. IP address) for connecting hardware. When porting to the GalilTools library, one may want to look-up the Windows Registry information in order to store this connection information for use with the GalilTools library. Whether a config file, server, or other repository is used, it is easy to extract the data from the Windows registry using "dmccom.h"