Primarily to advise that I tried the non-zero entry in the touch off entry
box on my milling machine, also running the latest 2.6.0 beta, with exactly
the same results.
Enter the value, and hit return or click apply, the new value is displayed
in the axis dro readout for perhaps 1/2 second,
On Thursday, May 17, 2012 03:56:00 PM andy pugh did opine:
On 17 May 2012 14:33, Jan de Kruyf jan.de.kr...@gmail.com wrote:
Andy
Until we do proper tests: see the OSADL numbers for the various board
/ cpu setups
The Core2Duo system they have looks like it would software-step
perfectly
On Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:33:42 PM Kent A. Reed did opine:
On 5/17/2012 4:18 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On Thursday, May 17, 2012 03:56:00 PM andy pugh did opine:
On 17 May 2012 14:33, Jan de Kruyfjan.de.kr...@gmail.com wrote:
Andy
Until we do proper tests: see the OSADL numbers
On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 04:43:44 PM dave did opine:
the whole enchilada is at:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fsmlabs-showcases-breakthrough-f
ast-real-time-linux-for-amd-dual-core-processors-at-esc-boston-54936777.
html
Synopsis:
Performance Edge - Hard Real-time
On Friday, June 15, 2012 12:40:27 AM jeremy youngs did opine:
hello again gentlemen, I broke down and bought a kit for my steppers and
it should arrive tomorrow, great!! 2 yrs of waitng and this thing
is finally coming together. I am currently running a 2.5 hp treadmill
motor with the
On Friday, June 15, 2012 05:22:22 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
Generally speaking, the igbt stuff I have observed has a noticeably
slower turnon/turnoff times, which when coupled with their quite a
bit higher on resistance, does lead to heat problems.
Right, IGBTs don't
On Friday, June 15, 2012 11:10:42 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
To start with mosfet/hexfet's have one very non-endearing feature.
Because they are effectively the perfect equivalent to a vacuum tube
triode, they also share a attribute known as miller effect in the
tube
On Saturday, June 16, 2012 12:17:16 PM John Kasunich did opine:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012, at 11:40 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On Friday, June 15, 2012 11:10:42 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
Your idea of triple chipping the driver is an excellent one, but
needs a storage capacitor
On Saturday, June 16, 2012 06:38:10 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
Your idea of triple chipping the driver is an excellent one, but needs
a storage capacitor directly across the chip(s) supply pins, 2 of
pcb trace away won't cut it. Its got to be right there on those 2
pins
On Sunday, June 17, 2012 03:21:33 AM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
Yes, I put a 1 uF cap on the back of the board directly under the
driver chip. One for the
low-side driver and logic, one for the floating high-side driver.
I've been using this general
topology since 2004
On Thursday 19 July 2012 08:00:35 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine:
Latest kernel supported is 2.6.38, no support for Precise's Linux 3.2.
http://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2012-July/025059.html
Paolo says he will be working on that during his summer holiday, or are you
reading the same list
konversation to run on the machine boxes so I
have IRC and can pester the guys from there, and quite a bit more to run
kmail on this box. In all cases I am still using gdm as the display
manager.
On 07/18/2012 09:49 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings;
Kmail upchucked yesterday, from an inability
On Friday 20 July 2012 10:55:45 Chris Radek did opine:
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 06:22:41PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 19 July 2012 18:14:28 Moses McKnight did opine:
As far as I know you have to install that yourself because it does
not come on the Ubuntu liveCD, which
On Wednesday 25 July 2012 10:36:33 ELHIMA Moustapha did opine:
Dear All
I'm thinking to put a potentiometer on my cnc lathe to control the
feedrate, for my machine To control my machine I have just used 2
parports and I have the possibility to use an another one, could you
tell me if it's
The reason I say potential is that I actually have NDI where the problem
lies.
This is the main box in the house, a quad core, but slow 2.1 ghz phenom,
with 4 gigs of system ram a loaded pci pcie bus, with a USB tree
attached that resembles a weeping willow. It is running an install based
On Wednesday 01 August 2012 11:59:45 Dave Caroline did opine:
open a terminal type top
I keep htop running full time
look what processes are up to
do you have a large %wa (waiting on io)
ran top, see 0.2%wa occasionally, usually 0.0%wa, string of incoming mail
ran it up to 5.4%wa once.
.
Eric
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2012 11:59:45 Dave Caroline did opine:
open a terminal type top
I keep htop running full time
look what processes are up to
do you have a large %wa (waiting on io)
ran top
On Sunday 12 August 2012 11:21:30 Viesturs Lācis did opine:
2012/8/12 Alexey Starikovskiy aysta...@gmail.com:
Dave, right now users of LinuxCNC are mostly insulated from raw HAL
editing by stepconf and pncconf.
I totally disagree.
First of all, I have tried stepconf and pncconf. One time
On Monday 13 August 2012 12:08:10 jeremy youngs did opine:
I am sure my ignorance will show here so please forgive me, whilst we
are discussing adaptations of lcnc2 and the direction of 3, are there
any thoughts of implementing a 64 bit version? I realize this is not
necessary to lcnc
On Monday 13 August 2012 12:21:03 Alexey Starikovskiy did opine:
On 08/13/2012 08:03 PM, jeremy youngs wrote:
I am sure my ignorance will show here so please forgive me, whilst we
are discussing adaptations of lcnc2 and the direction of 3, are there
any thoughts of implementing a 64 bit
On Friday 17 August 2012 09:30:45 andy pugh did opine:
On 17 August 2012 13:48, Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote:
Some tapping heads will release after a set amount of extension of the
head components. These heads also self reversed upon axis retraction.
This allows the programmer
On Friday 17 August 2012 10:41:54 Dave Caroline did opine:
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
On Friday 17 August 2012 09:30:45 andy pugh did opine:
On 17 August 2012 13:48, Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote:
Some tapping heads will release after
On Friday 17 August 2012 20:12:35 Jon Elson did opine:
On 17 August 2012 15:49, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
Also I believe, it would be valuable to have a discussion of the
various offerings, so that I for instance, who might have a need for
tapping 40 each 6-32 to 10-32 holes
On Saturday 18 August 2012 09:46:26 Kenneth Lerman did opine:
[...]
I have done quite a few 6-32 holes in 7078-T6 but can't claim a lot of
experience in tapping the common alu stock sold at Lowes/TSC, its
pretty soft. ISTR the last batch of 4-40's I tapped about 3/8 deep,
blind, took
On Saturday 18 August 2012 19:12:06 John Kasunich did opine:
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Kenneth Lerman wrote:
On 8/18/2012 9:49 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 18 August 2012 09:46:26 Kenneth Lerman did opine:
[...]
I have done quite a few 6-32 holes in 7078-T6
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 19:50:10 Kenneth Lerman did opine:
On 8/22/2012 12:07 PM, Matt Shaver wrote:
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 01:40:06 +0300
Alex Joni alex.j...@robcon.ro wrote:
Last emc1 version was 1.2.0-rc1 iirc,
you can still find the CVS tree for emc1 here:
26.08.2012 um 08:24 schrieb Gene Heskett:
On Sunday 26 August 2012 02:06:08 Michael Haberler did opine:
Am 26.08.2012 um 01:11 schrieb Chris Morley:
3. ALL guis, not just Axis, need to eventually learn how to start a
POSTGUI_HALFILE if there is any chance itself or a subprocess
creates
On Monday 27 August 2012 19:19:02 Jon Elson did opine:
Gene Heskett wrote:
But, I have done a lot of 10-32, 4-40 and 2-56 tapping in aluminum.
I use alum-tap with is a fantastic tapping fluid.
I've been meaning to get some of that, I keep forgetting it when I'm
on the phone ordering
On Tuesday 28 August 2012 03:09:29 Lars Segerlund did opine:
No I don't think I can run userspace code unmodified in rt-preempt,
but it's not a module either.
What you need is rt-specific code, but it can be run as a user as
long as the privileges are set properly and priorities.
The
On Tuesday 28 August 2012 16:00:29 Lars Segerlund did opine:
Actually, for the debian rt-preempt there is an apt repo to add
all of rt-preempt is not mainlined yet, but it's the goal.
But I have been running an rt-preempt kernel on my laptop for a
while, and quite arguably it doesn't
On Tuesday 28 August 2012 16:20:25 andy pugh did opine:
On 28 August 2012 09:07, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
eventually that 10-32 rack will at some point in rebuilding the
facility, see a 12-24 tap in a reversible drill applied to every hole
in it just to remove the aggravation
On Tuesday 28 August 2012 16:38:04 Jon Elson did opine:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Throw in that in the typical BC facility, the 10-32 racks often have
damaged threads because the crap we hang on a 10-32 is too much for
the screw,
All our racks at work have clip-on nuts, so if you mangle one
On Tuesday 28 August 2012 17:05:59 Kent A. Reed did opine:
On 8/28/2012 3:04 PM, Dave wrote:
On 8/28/2012 2:46 PM, andy pugh wrote:
On 28 August 2012 08:50, Michael Haberlermai...@mah.priv.at wrote:
I said: the LinuxCNC project needs an *alternative* realtime kernel
which runs on every
On Tuesday 28 August 2012 17:16:39 dave did opine:
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 22:12 +0300, Viesturs Lؤپcis wrote:
2012/8/28 Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com:
On 8/28/2012 2:46 PM, andy pugh wrote:
On 28 August 2012 08:50, Michael Haberlermai...@mah.priv.at
wrote:
I said: the LinuxCNC project needs
On Wednesday 29 August 2012 19:36:52 EBo did opine:
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:47:31 +0100, andy pugh wrote:
On 29 August 2012 23:42, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote:
Could you tell us more about your driver and why you put it in the
Mesa
firmware section?
I am not sure I understand the
On Thursday 30 August 2012 11:34:49 EBo did opine:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:32:48 + (UTC), Jiri Kastner wrote:
just for inspiration:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol
http://www.nist.gov/el/isd/ieee/ieee1588.cfm
http://ptpd.sourceforge.net/
some low
On Thursday 30 August 2012 18:25:01 EBo did opine:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:36:41 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 30 August 2012 11:34:49 EBo did opine:
Personally I would not touch Broadcom with a 10' Mongolian. They
have
the WORST Linux support in the world...
Even
On Wednesday 05 September 2012 10:48:43 Kent A. Reed did opine:
On 9/5/2012 12:26 AM, Chris Morley wrote:
I'm not sure what the right answer is here. Putting this experimental
driver into master makes it easily accessible to folks like me who
forget Michael's git hub but at the same time
On Tuesday 11 September 2012 11:46:15 SourceForge.net did opine:
Bugs item #3563795, was opened at 2012-08-31 11:13
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by
You can respond by visiting:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=106744aid=3563795gro
up_id=6744
Please
On Wednesday 19 September 2012 20:44:30 Kenneth Lerman did opine:
On 9/19/2012 9:16 AM, John Kasunich wrote:
I think this bug is actually a special case that doesn't
matter much for real systems. The fix seems dangerous,
but let me explain how I see it.
I agree that signals aren't
like the 'call' which
does 'setsubpath' which actually does this specifying of SUBROUTINE_PATH
might make more sense?
Am 25.09.2012 um 04:09 schrieb Gene Heskett:
Greetings all;
The last time I tried to see if I could put all the files for a given
project in its own subdir of nc_files, I
On Tuesday 25 September 2012 23:19:31 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine:
On Sep 25, 2012, at 09:42 , Kent A. Reed wrote:
I like Gene's second approach because it doesn't require the author of
a G-code routine to know anything about the directory structure the
code may end up in; e.g., the
On Tuesday 25 September 2012 23:21:30 Michael Haberler did opine:
Am 25.09.2012 um 18:34 schrieb Sebastian Kuzminsky:
On Sep 25, 2012, at 09:42 , Kent A. Reed wrote:
I like Gene's second approach because it doesn't require the author
of a G-code routine to know anything about the directory
On Wednesday 26 September 2012 08:19:27 Michael Haberler did opine:
Am 26.09.2012 um 05:22 schrieb Gene Heskett:
On Tuesday 25 September 2012 23:21:30 Michael Haberler did opine:
Am 25.09.2012 um 18:34 schrieb Sebastian Kuzminsky:
On Sep 25, 2012, at 09:42 , Kent A. Reed wrote:
I like
: No
Submitted By: Gene Heskett (gheskett)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: new named subroutine search order needed
Initial Comment:
Persuant to a discussion on the -devel list, it seems we need a named
subroutine search function that first searches the directory the
current gcode
On Wednesday 26 September 2012 12:17:47 Michael Haberler did opine:
Am 26.09.2012 um 17:52 schrieb Gene Heskett:
On Wednesday 26 September 2012 11:43:26 SourceForge.net did opine:
Feature Requests item #3571903, was opened at 2012-09-26 05:16
Message generated for change (Comment added
On Wednesday 03 October 2012 14:40:23 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine:
On Oct 3, 2012, at 12:19 , andy pugh wrote:
On 3 October 2012 18:35, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote:
Wait, you're going to pass locale information into the kernel via
HAL?
Only a choice of decimal
On Thursday 11 October 2012 00:28:39 Jon Elson did opine:
Hi, I just pulled in the latest master and made a slight change to
the message output from src/hal/drivers/hal_ppmc.c, and I am
trying to see the messages from the
rtapi_print_msg(RTAPI_MSG_INFO ...
but I have no idea where these
On Thursday 01 November 2012 11:25:45 Michael Haberler did opine:
I got LinuxCNC 2.5 to run on an x86 with Xenomai kernel threads, by
replacing RTAI calls by their Xenomai equivalents.
Initial results look promising. This is still unpolished and not ready
for a merge yet - I'm publishing
On Friday 02 November 2012 11:19:38 Kent A. Reed did opine:
On 11/2/2012 5:18 AM, Michael Haberler wrote:
I added this:
Verify initrd has been created
--
The lucid dpkg friends tools are very outdated, and fail to create
an initramfs after the above
On Friday 02 November 2012 11:44:04 Jon Elson did opine:
On 11/01/2012 12:25 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
Gentlemen,
What is ferror used for in motion or any calculation? I thought it
was
only for human feedback during the tuning phase.
It is used to stop motion when the
On Friday 02 November 2012 15:13:07 Peter C. Wallace did opine:
On Fri, 2 Nov 2012, Gene Heskett wrote:
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 12:07:45 -0400
From: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com
Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
On Friday 02 November 2012 18:22:25 Kent A. Reed did opine:
On 11/2/2012 11:18 AM, Michael Haberler wrote:
I have now integrated the RT-PREEMPT branch as provided by Charles,
added the now-working Xenomai-userland thread style, and massaged
configure to deal with all of this. The
On Friday 02 November 2012 20:54:40 Kent A. Reed did opine:
On 11/2/2012 11:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Here, it may come even quicker. Some update in the last week has
broken libqt4-dbus, and from my googling last night, it appears to be
a common 12.04 problem, AND according to apt-get's
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 16:14:24 Michael Haberler did opine:
Bas,
Am 21.11.2012 um 18:49 schrieb Bas Laarhoven:
On 20-11-2012 20:54, Michael Haberler wrote:
I dont want to curb your hopes too much, but I said 'GladeVCP+HAL
standalone applications' and meant to say 'HAL only' -
On Wednesday 05 December 2012 06:02:20 EBo did opine:
On Dec 5 2012 2:16 AM, EBo wrote:
On Dec 4 2012 9:06 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote:
In addition to latency-test there is a script called latencyplot
that
possibly could give some insight. I have spent time staring at the
rolling plot
On Wednesday 05 December 2012 07:17:44 andy pugh did opine:
On 5 December 2012 11:06, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
This brought up a renewed desire to let latencyplot run for a few
hours, but it took 10 minutes worth of cleanup with rmmod to get rid
of the leftovers from the last
On Wednesday 05 December 2012 09:12:18 Lars Segerlund did opine:
Have you tuned the machine ? govenor = performance, swappiness and so
on ? SO that there is no frequency scaling running ... or similar ?
This is the 10.04.4 LTS, installed from the linuxcnc cd.
2012/12/5 Gene Heskett ghesk
On Wednesday 05 December 2012 09:13:54 andy pugh did opine:
On 5 December 2012 12:20, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
I often see this sort of trouble when I crash RTAPI.
Rebooting the PC is the easiest way to clean up.
rmmod all the rtai stuff and it will run again.
If rmmod
On Thursday 06 December 2012 10:44:53 Kent A. Reed did opine:
On 12/6/2012 9:15 AM, EBo wrote:
...
From that I can see that
there is a small group of outliers at ±20us. From this information we
might be able to look at the traces to see what is happening around
those events and
On Thursday 06 December 2012 14:38:54 Michael Haberler did opine:
Gene,
just curious on your method:
Am 06.12.2012 um 17:14 schrieb Gene Heskett:
Chuckle.. NP Kent, but I would point out that it only takes one
out-lier of an extra 50 u-s, in a 25 u-s loop, to cause a stepper
stall
On Thursday 06 December 2012 21:24:20 Michael Haberler did opine:
Am 07.12.2012 um 02:09 schrieb Gene Heskett:
On Thursday 06 December 2012 19:50:33 Michael Haberler did opine:
How did you determine a) the stepper stalled (for how many steps?)
and b) actually the cause was the delay you
On Thursday 06 December 2012 22:52:27 Jon Elson did opine:
Michael Haberler wrote:
sorry for what maybe sounds like a dumb question, but having read the
Proctor/Shackleford paper on the influence of jitter on steppers
which basically say: all it causes is a loss of torque on the order
of
On Friday 07 December 2012 11:04:27 Steve Stallings did opine:
normally a top poster here, but will try to insert
my comments in a rational place below.
-Original Message-
From: Michael Haberler [mailto:mai...@mah.priv.at]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 3:22 AM
To:
On Friday 07 December 2012 14:05:13 Jon Elson did opine:
Michael Haberler wrote:
it's the latency test which comes with the xenomai userland support;
note this is for idle CPU
running a compile over NFS this creeps up to 30ish max/55worse while
still being around 12 average
Well,
On Friday 07 December 2012 14:42:34 Jon Elson did opine:
Gene Heskett wrote:
This is quite informative Steve, thanks. It also sends a rather
powerful message that we really ought to consider that step
generation is a hardware job.
Well, I've always thought so, and I hope that isn't
On Friday 07 December 2012 15:44:25 Steve Stallings did opine:
The propeller works well for generating the steps.
It works less well at communicating with a host if
all comms would be consolidated in a single core
for communication with the host. There are no hardware
On Friday 07 December 2012 23:12:52 Jon Elson did opine:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Those too are valid questions, with very iffy answers for the hobbiest
like me. The improvement probably would be appreciated, but in
nearly 10 years of having the basic machinery, I have only re-couped
maybe
On Saturday 08 December 2012 21:35:41 andy pugh did opine:
On 9 December 2012 01:55, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
But I keep thinking in terms of using a gain of .25 in order to blend
the passing of 4 edges of the quadrature input and average out the
mechanical wibbles that get us
would be great to have.
How about an FFT too?
Noel R.
'Roguish
-Original Message-
From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@wdtv.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 4:40 PM
To: EMC developers
Subject: [Emc-developers] PID tuning, Zeigler-Nichols method
Greetings;
I haven't
On Tuesday 11 December 2012 13:25:35 Jon Elson did opine:
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 10 December 2012 23:07:29 noel did opine:
For a little information on tuning see this
http://support.motioneng.com/Downloads-Notes/Tuning/default.htm
Not sure if any of this is of any use unless you
On Thursday 13 December 2012 09:26:24 John Morris did opine:
On 12/11/2012 09:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
I had something on the mill that said what was requested and that it
was 'at speed', but that was 3 or 4 years ago and just made the
assumptions I believe as I don't
On Thursday 13 December 2012 11:01:49 Charles Steinkuehler did opine:
On 12/13/2012 8:28 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 13 December 2012 09:26:24 John Morris did opine:
On 12/11/2012 09:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
I had something on the mill that said what
2012 by Gene Heskett
loadrt trivkins
loadrt [EMCMOT]EMCMOT base_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]BASE_PERIOD
servo_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]SERVO_PERIOD num_joints=[TRAJ]AXES
loadrt probe_parport
loadrt hal_parport cfg=0x378 out
setpparport.0.reset-time1300
loadrt encoder
On Saturday 15 December 2012 18:07:57 andy pugh did opine:
On 15 December 2012 22:38, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
On the reboot, update-manager
updated both the linuxcnc and the freecad installs, and it seems now
stuck in the above state.
What version of LinuxCNC are you
On Sunday 16 December 2012 06:44:13 Michael Haberler did opine:
Gene,
I dont think it's the HAL file (gut feeling) - could be any number of
reasons, see below:
Am 15.12.2012 um 23:38 schrieb Gene Heskett:
Greetings;
I have a startup error that doesn't make any sense to me
On Sunday 16 December 2012 08:03:51 andy pugh did opine:
On 16 December 2012 12:04, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
I've been playing, getting rid of any setp's that referenced a normal
input pin,
No need to do that, it is perfectly normal and expected behaviour.
Great
On Sunday 16 December 2012 15:17:03 Michael Haberler did opine:
[huge snip]
Since it seems to be /usr/bin/milltask that is the likely suspect, some
data on my installed version:
gene@lathe:~/linuxcnc/configs/my-lathe$ ls -l /usr/bin/milltask
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 385484 2012-12-15 18:32
On Sunday 16 December 2012 16:31:23 andy pugh did opine:
On 16 December 2012 20:40, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
Next?
Try one of the demo configs.
Believe it or not nist-lathe runs, as in doesn't take the first off ramp.
But won't run, or home because it thinks all the limit
On Sunday 16 December 2012 17:08:31 Gene Heskett did opine:
On Sunday 16 December 2012 16:31:23 andy pugh did opine:
On 16 December 2012 20:40, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
Next?
Try one of the demo configs.
Believe it or not nist-lathe runs, as in doesn't take the first
On Sunday 16 December 2012 18:48:56 andy pugh did opine:
On 16 December 2012 22:36, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
Now, hopefully, I can go back to figuring out how to deal with a motor
controller whose input sensitivity curve is a Cast Iron Bitch.
Is it definitely the controller
On Sunday 16 December 2012 21:15:17 andy pugh did opine:
On 17 December 2012 00:28, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
I can carve code in
assembly or in the C we have on a 6309 or 6809 cpu running Nitros9,
Actually, that's probably quite a good basis for writing HAL components.
HAL
On Monday 17 December 2012 07:54:03 andy pugh did opine:
On 17 December 2012 02:59, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
The math I was able to find seems complex, some of it might even have
had a very time consuming power series. I don't think we have, in a
millisecond time frame
On Monday 17 December 2012 09:00:41 John Kasunich did opine:
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012, at 08:15 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
One question re optimizing hal:
Is the servo-thread execution sequence the same as the addf statements
order?
By default, yes. You can follow each addf with a number
On Monday 17 December 2012 09:02:41 Victor Rocco did opine:
-Mensaje original-
De: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@wdtv.com] Enviado el: Sأ،bado, 15 de
Diciembre de 2012 07:39 p.m.
Para: EMC developers
Asunto: [Emc-developers] Something has a tummy ache, 2 subjects
actually
Greetings;
gene@lathe:~$ sudo apt-get install gdb
[sudo] password for gene:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gdb is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
Greetings;
I am at my wits end with this controller, and am now ready to throw more
money at it.
Specifically a Pico 20A, line powered pwm servo driver. But its drive
requirements would appear to tax our pwmgen rather mightily as it needs a
minimum of a 25 kilohertz drive signal, at 12
On Monday 17 December 2012 21:12:02 andy pugh did opine:
On 17 December 2012 23:39, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
I am at my wits end with this controller, and am now ready to throw
more money at it.
What is the problem? What are you trying to achieve?
Stable, suitably stiff
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 18:24:20 Steve Stallings did opine:
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From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@wdtv.com]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 10:14 PM
To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Servo Q
On Monday 17 December
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 19:08:42 andy pugh did opine:
On 16 December 2012 22:46, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
It wouldn't be all that hard to make a linearisation curve component.
And it wasn't. Put the following in a text file called
lincurve.comp then sudo comp --install
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 19:47:59 andy pugh did opine:
On 19 December 2012 00:16, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
lincurve.comp then sudo comp --install lincurve.comp.
Please put this into the hal repo andy, I think it can be very useful
indeed. I think it will need some man
On Saturday 22 December 2012 08:03:33 andy pugh did opine:
On 21 December 2012 17:04, Lisandro Massera lisandromass...@hotmail.com
wrote:
Is there any problem using the abs() function in a real time module?
abs() is an integer function.
Mmmm, according to my man 9 abs, its a float. And
On Sunday 23 December 2012 14:49:31 Kent A. Reed did opine:
Gentle persons:
Now that we have survived the great non-event of 2012, the end of the
Mayan Calendar (something the descendents of the Mayans claim is totally
misrepresented by us European descendents) and see the sun still comes
On Sunday 06 January 2013 16:05:36 Dave Engvall did opine:
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On Jan 6, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Joachim Franek wrote:
On Sunday 09 December 2012 17:50:22 dave wrote:
Zu hilfe! Zu hilfe! Zu hilfe!
Hier ist die Hilfe.
Have
Greetings;
There is a motion.backlash-vel output available, looks like a float.
+ or - number dependent on the direction.
I am thinking that I could feed this float into a comp(are) module, and use
its output to disable high, the motion.probe-input for the duration of the
backlash move, or
Greetings;
I had another crash yesterday morning as I was quiting linuxcnc, from the
pulldown menu, while I was ssh -Y'd into the machine. It did not auto
reboot, so I went out and held the reset button down for a few seconds.
It did an fsck (apparently clean) on the reboot, then did a full
On Saturday 12 January 2013 17:28:23 Chris Radek did opine:
Message additions Copyright Saturday 12 January 2013 by Gene Heskett
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 08:13:05AM +0100, Michael Haberler wrote:
motion has an issue with ferror calculation:
I've studied this some more and disagree
On Sunday 13 January 2013 17:20:35 dave did opine:
Message additions Copyright Sunday 13 January 2013 by Gene Heskett
.forget the jiggity-jog. :-)
There is nothing like getting things fixed and then getting out of
the hospital as soon as possible.
Surgeon was really good. 3 small
On Sunday 13 January 2013 17:22:39 Tom Easterday did opine:
Message additions Copyright Sunday 13 January 2013 by Gene Heskett
What do you mean by preview/progress display exactly? Are you talking
about showing machine status only (no control) within a web browser?
That is (very roughly
Greetings all;
Using the g38.2 on a lathe for a potential auto-zero turned out to be a
lot more painful that it was on my mill, so here is a blow by blow that
at some point I'd like to see in the wiki in case someone else has to
re-invent this contraption.
Background:
I made a gage out of
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