[Emc-users] AXIS display and 'g-code driving me loopy...'

2008-05-30 Thread Ian W. Wright
Hi, After playing with Ed's scripts which work fine for my purpose, my frustration with AXIS has grown. I wish I was able to modify it but I'm not clever enough :-( . I appreciate that the cause of my frustration is not to do strictly with the way AXIS works - it does so very well - but

[Emc-users] Mini-itx Control

2008-05-30 Thread Hugues Belanger
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Re: [Emc-users] AXIS display and 'g-code driving me loopy...'

2008-05-30 Thread Jeff Epler
I agree that what you describe would be great, and really lift AXIS up to a whole new level when it comes to previewing gcode for 3 axis machines. One stumbling block is that there are a lot of different possible machines (maybe as many as 120 for machines up to 5 axes; I haven't completely

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-itx Control

2008-05-30 Thread Alex Joni
well this wouldn't be an OT message if you put up some latency-test numbers, or descriptions how well it worked with EMC.. Regards, Alex - Original Message - From: Hugues Belanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 2:39 PM Subject:

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-itx Control

2008-05-30 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 15:56 +0300, Alex Joni wrote: well this wouldn't be an OT message if you put up some latency-test numbers, or descriptions how well it worked with EMC.. Regards, Alex - Original Message - From: Hugues Belanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Emc-users] servo with brake issue

2008-05-30 Thread Jorge Barrera
Thank you all, Thomas, Noel, Ray for the help and suggestions, After trying almost everything, we even build a filter circuit for the 24V line up to the brake we discovered a faulty pin connection on the motor connector. This wasn't all, the ground in the building was not that good either and a

Re: [Emc-users] servo with brake issue

2008-05-30 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 09:16 -0700, Jorge Barrera wrote: ... snip ... we discovered a faulty pin connection on the motor connector. This wasn't all, the ground in the building was not that good either and a UPS was used to power the PC and the IO boards, this took care of the false limit

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-itx Control

2008-05-30 Thread Manfredi Leto
I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 + EMC2 on a Commel mini-ITX LV-602B I bought on ebay for 50Eur some time ago: http://www.commell-sys.com/Product/SBC/LV-602.htm with 256 Mb of RAM and a PIII at 1.1 GHz it works Great! Onboard video works very well and I never got a realtime error with this board.

Re: [Emc-users] servo with brake issue

2008-05-30 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: Thank you for posting your results. I kind of take the mains for granted. Oh,no! That can be a FATAL mistake! I have been BLITZED a number of times by defective grounds, and systems where multiple pieces of equipment were plugged into different outlets. I had a

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-itx Control

2008-05-30 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 17:12 +, Manfredi Leto wrote: I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 + EMC2 on a Commel mini-ITX LV-602B I bought on ebay for 50Eur some time ago: http://www.commell-sys.com/Product/SBC/LV-602.htm with 256 Mb of RAM and a PIII at 1.1 GHz it works Great! Onboard video works

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-itx Control

2008-05-30 Thread Manfredi Leto
Hi, mine has a PCI slot. Greetings, Manfredi My websites: www.m24-pro.com www.emc2cnc.altervista.org From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:45:28 -0700 Subject: Re: [Emc-users]

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-itx Control

2008-05-30 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Kirk, I have had trouble getting Linux to run on my C3 ITX board, but that was quite a while ago. I would be interested in knowing if anyone has gotten EMC2 or Linux to run on one of these. It would make a nice low power router/gateway or EMC2 remote. I have had good success using the Via C7

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-itx Control

2008-05-30 Thread Len Shelton
I would be interested in knowing if anyone has gotten EMC2 or Linux to run on one of these. I use mini-itx boards all the time to run EMC2. I particularly like the JetWay boards: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153062 These use the C7 processor. And I wouldn't even

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-itx Control

2008-05-30 Thread Ray Henry
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 10:45 -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote: It's the C3 processors that seem to have the problem. I've run EMC and real time on C3 sorts of processors almost as long as I've been running EMC. I was doing it when Yodakin and FMS was saying you couldn't. If I remember IBM owned em