Re: [Emc-users] Emergency Stop switch

2010-04-13 Thread Lester Caine
Jon Elson wrote: I include an all-electronic version of this in all my controller boards, and users can add external safety controls as they deem necessary. A latching relay is basically what you are looking for, it would then need a separate reset button. The problem with making it

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: Kinematics question

2010-04-13 Thread Pablo Pais
Hi, thak you for the help. I can program in c and analysisi the kinematics. Y dont know haw to compile the kinematics. I have the trivkins sourece and i want to compile it to test, and then modify it to make my kinematics. Anyway, i can do some drawings, when it is ready i post it. Thak you.

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: Kinematics question

2010-04-13 Thread Dave
If you follow the instructions on the Wiki on how to get the software, and you a Git Clone to get the source code on your PC, you can modify the C code and then recompile everything to implement your changes. Dave On 4/13/2010 8:30 AM, Pablo Pais wrote: Hi, thak you for the help. I can

Re: [Emc-users] Emergency Stop switch

2010-04-13 Thread Jon Elson
Neil Baylis wrote: Yeah, I've seen some of these devices. You wouldn't think e-stop could get so complicated. Get lawyers, and even WORSE, legislators involved in the process, and there's no limit to how bad it can get. If it has to absolutely stop the machine in a safe manner, even when

Re: [Emc-users] Emergency Stop switch

2010-04-13 Thread Karl Schmidt
Lots of over kill listed in this thread. First: Don't use a PLC for this! This is supposed to work even if the electronics is gliched. The system is really simple and ultra reliable if you keep silicon out of it. It only takes a hi-reliability multi pole relay and a high reliability

[Emc-users] EMC2 to Compact Flash

2010-04-13 Thread RogerN
I'm interested in trying to run my EMC2 lathe from a CF card. I bought a 4Gb CF card, can I make an Acronis backup of my EMC2 hard drive and restore on the CF card? Or if I try to install from the Live CD will it let me select the USB CF drive and leave my working hard drive alone? I want to

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 to Compact Flash

2010-04-13 Thread Leslie Newell
If you use a CF to IDE adapter you can install EMC on it just like any other hard drive. There is some useful stuff on the wiki http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?Install_To_CompactFlash Les On 13/04/10 22:49, RogerN wrote: I'm interested in trying to run my EMC2 lathe from a CF card. I

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 to Compact Flash

2010-04-13 Thread Dave
You should also be able to use Acronis to clone the drive to the flash drive, however Acronis does not support the ext4 file system.But it will tell you that if you try and backup an ext4 file system with Acronis. Unless you try and restore stuff to the linux hard drive there is almost no

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 to Compact Flash

2010-04-13 Thread Matthew Ireland
I've been using a 4Gb flash drive for six months now... it has worked perfectly as far as I'm able to tell. I am not well versed in performance issues and so I might miss them if they cropped up. Firefox is a dog, but then it always is... I always restart the computer before doing any cutting

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 to Compact Flash

2010-04-13 Thread RogerN
At work we use some Siemens software PLC's running on a PC using Windows XP embedded. I tried Acronis to create an image and tried to restore to a CF plugged into a USB card reader, it worked up to a point and then hung a while, then said it needed to reboot. I tried to format the CF using

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 to Compact Flash

2010-04-13 Thread Евгений Александрович
I had to build EMC on Puppy linux to be able start EMC 2 from CF, USB Flash, DOM and another modules. I use Puppy because that OS work in RAM and write on disk only when I shutdown PC. Also I am looking for tinycore linux, but it is very difficult to start EMC on tinycore linux. Evgeny Tue,