[Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-18 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-18 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
you need and if you already have motors etc i guess.. as when looking at more fancy spec VFDs price does come into play and servo setup can be had for same sort of price some times.. rob On 19/01/2012 00:40, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: Hello to everybody on this list. I've been working

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-22 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
2012 18:15, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com escribió: On 20 January 2012 21:09, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Les and Robert for your answers. So, the best option is brushed DC motors Brushless are good too, if they come with drives. There are also generic

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-22 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
is the difference between AC brushless and DC brushless motors. Sorry If I read your message wrongly. El 22 de enero de 2012 20:27, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com escribió: On 22 January 2012 23:20, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious about the 8i20 card. Does

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-22 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Thanks Andy again for your help. As always you're very helpful! Regards. Leonardo. El 22 de enero de 2012 21:06, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com escribió: On 22 January 2012 23:56, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: Andy thanks for your explaination about the 8i20 card

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: LinuxCNC 2.5.0

2012-04-02 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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[Emc-users] OT: Chinese servo motor

2012-04-20 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] OT: Chinese servo motor

2012-04-20 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
buying new and used Yaskawa servos from eBay. Jim - Original Message - From: Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri Apr 20 15:08:32 2012 Subject: [Emc-users] OT: Chinese servo motor Hello

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Chinese servo motor

2012-04-20 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Sorry, I meant the price is four times the chinese motor+driver. El 20 de abril de 2012 22:19, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com escribió: Thank you guys for your answers. I think I'm going to try these servos, with analog drivers to close the loop on LinuxCNC. James, here

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Chinese servo motor

2012-04-24 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
: Hi, I never used them, but a respectable seller in europe sell them for typical CN use: http://www.kinco.cn/html/en/products/ServoStepper/ServoStepper_overview/ Again, I never use them, so, other advice would be welcome. Le 21.04.2012 03:20, Leonardo Marsaglia a écrit : Sorry, I meant

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Chinese servo motor

2012-04-25 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
suppliers. El 25 de abril de 2012 03:18, Andrew parallel.kinemat...@gmail.comescribió: 25 квітня 2012 р. 03:34 Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.comнаписав: Thanks for the information Claude. I'm enough confident to give it a try, so I think this week or the next one I'm going

Re: [Emc-users] CNC Tube Bender

2012-05-16 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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[Emc-users] Startup error when switched to 10.04

2014-02-25 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] Startup error when switched to 10.04

2014-02-26 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] jogging through...

2014-03-16 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] C2000 vfd + AC inductor motor + LinuxCNC

2014-03-24 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
-03:00 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com: On Friday 13 December 2013 09:07:06 Gregg Eshelman did opine: On 12/12/2013 3:26 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: 2013/12/11 Dave Cole linuxcncro...@gmail.com It sounds like you are greatly simplifying the machine. An MG set (motor generator set

Re: [Emc-users] C2000 vfd + AC inductor motor + LinuxCNC

2014-03-24 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
work! What resolution encoder do you have on the motor? Dave On 3/24/2014 7:51 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: Taking back to life this topic. I just uploaded a crappy video (sorry for the quality it was filmed with a cheap phone) that shows how the positioning system is working

Re: [Emc-users] C2000 vfd + AC inductor motor + LinuxCNC

2014-03-25 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
the simple tuning method is that you must set I and D to 0 and then increase P until the output oscillates and then compensate the oscillation with I. My concern is, does the oscillation starts when I increase P? or do I have to disturb the motor to see the oscillation?. Thanks! -- *Leonardo

Re: [Emc-users] C2000 vfd + AC inductor motor + LinuxCNC

2014-03-25 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] C2000 vfd + AC inductor motor + LinuxCNC

2014-03-25 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
motors and it's working nice. 2014-03-25 22:02 GMT-03:00 Dave Cole linuxcncro...@gmail.com: That is a good price for a drive that can do that. Sounds like the motor will last a very long time if you run it as you describe. Dave On 3/25/2014 6:09 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: 2014-03-25 12:24

Re: [Emc-users] Announcing LinuxCNC 2.6.0-pre1

2014-04-18 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] Announcing LinuxCNC 2.6.0-pre1

2014-04-18 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Sorry for the mistakes! I was writing a little too fast, but I think it's legible :) 2014-04-18 13:00 GMT-03:00 Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com : Well, I can help with the spanish translations, I'm OK with the english but may be some people don't, although it seems

Re: [Emc-users] Announcing LinuxCNC 2.6.0-pre1

2014-04-20 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] Who wants a 40,000 lbs milling machine?

2014-05-13 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] BLDC design

2014-05-25 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
but, may I say that I'm becoming sort of a fan of you? :) Love that motor! -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300

[Emc-users] Halcmd says module not loaded

2014-05-27 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] Halcmd says module not loaded

2014-05-28 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
...@highlab.com: On 05/27/2014 07:39 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: Hello to all. I'm in the process of compiling a module to do some calculations for machining lobes like the one Andy did a while ago. The problem is that when I inser that module, or another simple module that I've made

Re: [Emc-users] Halcmd says module not loaded

2014-05-28 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
g-code mediante m66;pin in float rad Radio de piedra actual;pin in bit carga Habilitacion para cargar el array;function _ ;license GPL;author Leonardo Marsaglia;;;#include rtapi_math.hFUNCTION(_) {float ang [3600];float desp [3600];int i;float pas_hpl, ant_hpl, pas_ang, ant_ang, pas_xpl, pas_ypl

Re: [Emc-users] Halcmd says module not loaded

2014-05-28 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
for the angle of the lobe, and the other one for the displacement at that angle. So the idea is to load the array with M66 functions in gcode. This way I can use different programs with the same component. I guess it has to work! -- *Leonardo Marsaglia

Re: [Emc-users] Halcmd says module not loaded

2014-05-28 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] Halcmd says module not loaded

2014-05-29 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
variables but it seems to make no difference. Do you guys know why I have this difference in the numbers? Is it because I'm working in radians with the component, and with the calculator I'm using degrees? Thanks as always! 2014-05-28 22:34 GMT-03:00 Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com

Re: [Emc-users] Halcmd says module not loaded

2014-05-29 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
axis. It's going to be slow because of the reduction but it's a beggining to see if this works. If I have some progress I will upload some videos! -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API

Re: [Emc-users] Halcmd says module not loaded

2014-05-29 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
coordinates. If I take 4 or more decimal places the number I get it's pretty much what I expect. But I was using 3 places and the final result dissapointed me. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-06-01 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-06-01 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
but is it possible for the keystick gui to run in the command line enviroment? If you don't have the need of the graphical toolpath that's powerful and little resource consuming. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Time is money

Re: [Emc-users] Either I am a survivor, or he isn't ready for me.

2014-06-06 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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[Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-15 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
me a hand to diagnose the problem so I can take measures about it because I need this machine to work. Sorry for the long text by I like to be explicit about the problem! Thanks as always for your help! -- *Leonardo Marsaglia

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-15 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
replace them? My brother has a digital oscilloscope that can measure capacitance but I don't know if that's ok for this kind of capacitors. But I guess if they are in the range the oscilloscope can measure I might work. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-15 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
the main power on? or when you release the machine from estop? In general the alarm showed at the moment you turn on the machine, but this time it happened even after I started to work. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Want

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-15 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
going on with the driver. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-16 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
2014-07-15 23:21 GMT-03:00 Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com: www.fanucworld.com is a very good resource Thank you Stuart, I just sended an email to them to see if they can help me. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-16 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
about the capacitors as dave pointed out. Please don't think it has nothing do to, every help is well received :). -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-16 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-16 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
. I hope that's it, because if not I have to figure out how to make it work at least at constant speed (600 rpm more or less) to make it work since I only do rough cuts with the lahe, and all the finishing is made on grinders. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-16 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
the replacement to see if that fix the problem. I don't know if I can test them, but anyway I want to know how much do they cost. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-16 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
! Leonardo 2014-07-16 13:04 GMT-03:00 Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com : 2014-07-16 12:39 GMT-03:00 John Kasunich jmkasun...@fastmail.fm: The voltage drop when a compressor or other large motor starts only lasts a tenth of a second to maybe a second or two. Too short to see

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-17 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
charge you for a list of parameters from and old machine. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-17 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
. I guess I will have to work in reverse engineering to know how the signals work, because now with the alarm I can't even move the joints. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-17 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
. By that time, we were using the lathe with an old CGA monitor, because the frequency is the same. I bought an adaptation board from CGA to VGA so now I can use any monitor. But yes, they're thiefs! -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Want

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-17 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
the original drives with LinuxCNC, because that would be great. Thanks as always and I hope I can make it work soon! Please let me know if you have any advice or anything because you have a lot more knowledge than me! Leonardo. 2014-07-17 19:37 GMT-03:00 Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-18 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
, because the idea is to mantain the originals, because the are working great. I'll be telling you how this is going! But as always thank you guys for being so kind and helpful! -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Want fast and easy

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Mazak QT 20 T1 with Fanuc spindle drive problem

2014-07-24 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
to water. ;-) Dave On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 11:23 -0400, Dave Cole wrote: On 7/17/2014 6:37 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: 2014-07-17 16:18 GMT-03:00 dave dengv...@charter.net: Mazak's policy is set up to encourage you to buy new rather than fix. :-( Indeed. A couple of years ago, I

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0 is out!

2014-07-31 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] buying directly from Mesa

2014-08-25 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] Rubber Keyboard

2014-10-20 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] Announcing the LinuxCNC 2.7 branch

2014-10-29 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] The Warm Glow of Mach 3

2014-10-29 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
system. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] The Warm Glow of Mach 3

2014-10-29 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
are not interested in space travel and what's beyond this planet, hence nobody wants to invest a lot of money on that. The sad thing is, all the great achievements and progress are acomplished in war times. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia

[Emc-users] Running Mitsubishi Meldas DC servo motors with LinuxCNC

2014-11-18 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
for the long description but my question is: Is it possible to use these drivers? or is it going to be a lot of trouble to get them to work with LinuxCNC?? Thanks as always for your help! -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Download

Re: [Emc-users] Running Mitsubishi Meldas DC servo motors with LinuxCNC

2014-11-18 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
-11-18 22:05 GMT-03:00 Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com : Hello to all! A few months ago our Mazak spindle died and we replaced it with a new one of the brand Yaskawa. The lathe is behaving well but it's a good idea to replace the control with a LCNC machine following a planned

Re: [Emc-users] Running Mitsubishi Meldas DC servo motors with LinuxCNC

2014-11-19 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
there about how to tune the parameters using the presets on the driver. I think I saw something like that in one of the PDFs that I have, I don't know if it's the same. I hope I don't have to touch any of that, since the mayority of those parameters are factory set up. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia

Re: [Emc-users] Running Mitsubishi Meldas DC servo motors with LinuxCNC

2014-11-19 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
mounted so practically I don't have to touch anything of the mechanical units. I hope I can do some testing soon because replacing the original control will give me a lot of new functionalities. Thanks Jeff for info! -- *Leonardo Marsaglia

Re: [Emc-users] i guess i need a new motherboard for new linuxcnc

2014-11-19 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
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Re: [Emc-users] Running Mitsubishi Meldas DC servo motors with LinuxCNC

2014-11-19 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
will be telling to the drives the actual speed and I would only have to close the loop on LinuxCNC using the resolvers. I guess it's not more difficult than that. But I would love to hear suggestions! -- *Leonardo Marsaglia

Re: [Emc-users] Running Mitsubishi Meldas DC servo motors with LinuxCNC

2014-11-20 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
about how you did it. So the drivers work with +/- 10 volts, that's great because I couldn't find anything about that yet, but anyway I could measure the input of the drivers since the machine is working. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia

Re: [Emc-users] Running Mitsubishi Meldas DC servo motors with LinuxCNC

2014-11-20 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
some hal logic will work just fine. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity

[Emc-users] Semi OT: Rotary encoder Z pulse alternatives

2014-11-24 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
counting by software but I would lose the zero position everytime I turn of the machine so a physical zero would be ideal. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from

Re: [Emc-users] Semi OT: Rotary encoder Z pulse alternatives

2014-11-24 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
, combined with the radius in wich it's installed would affect the accuracy of that zero? or is not that critical? Because in my head I'm picturing the rise and fall signals and I'm worried about where the zero rising point will fall, but may be it's not that important. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia

Re: [Emc-users] Semi OT: Rotary encoder Z pulse alternatives

2014-11-24 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
for proximity switches. 20 khz anyway is good enough since the Z is going to be true once per revolution. Thank you Dave! -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from

Re: [Emc-users] Semi OT: Rotary encoder Z pulse alternatives

2014-11-24 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
method for non circular turning to rough cut some camshafts on the lathe. At least I'm sure the ones with low lift are going to be possible to turn. I'm not sure about the ones with 9 mm and more lift, because of tool clearance. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia

Re: [Emc-users] Semi OT: Rotary encoder Z pulse alternatives

2014-11-24 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
in Argentina because if I have to buy them from Digikey as Jon did I will have to spend a lot more on shipping than on the sensors. But the good thing is that it works well! -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type

Re: [Emc-users] Semi OT: Rotary encoder Z pulse alternatives

2014-11-24 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
,in my case, to machine a 360 teeth gear and use these sensors only. If they do the trick it's a good solution too. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate

Re: [Emc-users] Semi OT: Rotary encoder Z pulse alternatives

2014-11-24 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
2014-11-24 22:19 GMT-03:00 Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com : It's tempting also ,in my case, to machine a 360 teeth gear and use these sensors only. If they do the trick it's a good solution too. Mod 1.0 is like 362 mm in diameter. So unless the sensors are capable of sense

Re: [Emc-users] Semi OT: Rotary encoder Z pulse alternatives

2014-11-24 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
be using the encoder and only one proximity switch for the index pulse. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports

Re: [Emc-users] Semi OT: Rotary encoder Z pulse alternatives

2014-11-25 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
to be a problem for these encoders, nor the hardware for reading them. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports

Re: [Emc-users] Cam grinding....

2011-06-14 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
regards. Leonardo Marsaglia. 2011/6/14 H J Johnson hjjohn...@sasktel.net It doesn't matter, the wheel diameter is going to change in time due to use so it will effect the final part dims, this is why cam grinding requires multiple passes [one reason]. I've seen machine tools that use lasers

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe questions

2011-08-30 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Hello everybody, I've been reading this topic about using two motors to change from a high speed spindle for turning, to a low speed but high torque C axis to mill parts, and I think it's a great project to get involved with emc. I would like to ask about this, because in my head I always think

Re: [Emc-users] pain in the $#%

2011-10-30 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
I have the same behaviour on a machine running steppers even with a mesa 5i20 for the step generation. The problem anyway shows everytime I start EMC, then it doesn't appear all day long until the machine is turned off. I think it's a problem with my motherboard or processor. But, I remember the

Re: [Emc-users] pain in the $#%

2011-10-30 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
at a fast rate)… You can get the real time errors if your thread period is too fast for the hardware. Tom On Oct 30, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: I have the same behaviour on a machine running steppers even with a mesa 5i20 for the step generation. The problem anyway

Re: [Emc-users] pain in the $#%

2011-10-30 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
, since this one also has onboard video, and may be that's causing trouble too. Thanks as always for your kindness! Leonardo. 2011/10/30 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com On 10/30/2011 5:53 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: I have the same behaviour on a machine running steppers even with a mesa 5i20

Re: [Emc-users] pain in the $#%

2011-10-31 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
...@gmail.com You will only get the message once per session even if you have latency problems all day long... John On 10/30/2011 6:53 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: I have the same behaviour on a machine running steppers even with a mesa 5i20 for the step generation. The problem anyway shows

Re: [Emc-users] pain in the $#%

2011-10-31 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Andy, I'm reading about the SMI patch right now. I installed a clean copy of the ubuntu 10.04 live cd with emc 2.4.3 and I really don't know if this one comes already patched, even more this is the first time I read about the patch. I've been really busy between college and work and didn't have

Re: [Emc-users] pain in the $#%

2011-10-31 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
told about the SMI patch, but carefully not have problems that compromise the work pieces. 2011/10/31 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com On 10/31/2011 6:32 AM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: Hello everybody, I just ran the latency test and the jitter of the servo thread was 800,000 ns!!!. OK

Re: [Emc-users] pain in the $#%

2011-10-31 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
By the way, tomorrow I will try to identify the motherboard, to recomend what NOT to use, just in case, may be it's already on the list of hardware that doesn't work hehe. Regards. 2011/10/31 Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com Hello again people! Just ran the latency test on my

[Emc-users] Linux halt detection

2009-11-08 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Hello everybody, i was thinking in making an automatic external shutdown device, since the kernel is configured not to halt in the normal way.. What i was wondering is if when i shutdown the system and the screen says system halted is there any physical connector or something that i can use to

Re: [Emc-users] Linux halt detection

2009-11-09 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Mark On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody, i was thinking in making an automatic external shutdown device, since the kernel is configured not to halt in the normal way.. What i was wondering is if when i shutdown

Re: [Emc-users] Linux halt detection

2009-11-12 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
kernel - see the responses to my message on EMC-developers. HTH Mark On Nov 9, 2009 9:13 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: Hello mark, thanks for your answer.. i tried that but when i press the power button the machine powers off skipping the halt

[Emc-users] Link a Bash script to a hal signal

2009-11-12 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Hello everybody, i'm finishing with the setup of my machine and i have one question.. How can i link a signal to a bash script? is it possible to make a component with the sript in it and then use the component to activate that script whenever i want? Thanks in adavance for your help.

Re: [Emc-users] Link a Bash script to a hal signal

2009-11-13 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
is to make a component using comp with one bit in pin, and when that pin is true, the function system executes the sh command. Well i hope someone can clear my doubts to guide me in the right way. Thanks in advance again. Leonardo 2009/11/12 Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com

Re: [Emc-users] Link a Bash script to a hal signal

2009-11-13 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
? I don't know about running a bash script but in the Wiki there is an example for accessing pins via a Python script. http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//hal_halmodule.html Dave Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: Hello again, i think i figured out how to make the link, i found that i can use

Re: [Emc-users] Link a Bash script to a hal signal

2009-11-14 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Thank you very much guys for your help, i think may be the best is to make a userspace component as john told.. I have only one doubt about that.. and it's about the directory in which the component has to be inserted so i can load it with the loadusr command.. i read about that in the hal manual

Re: [Emc-users] Link a Bash script to a hal signal

2009-11-16 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
-W, you need to use the named version, eg -Wn mycomponent That's what I do. Frank -Original Message- From: Leonardo Marsaglia [mailto:leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 15 November 2009 7:09 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Link

Re: [Emc-users] EMC at NAMES 2010 update

2009-11-20 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
I wish i could go some day to an EMC meeting, I'm far away from the US. But i hope everything goes well with that. Regards. Leonardo. 2009/11/20 Dale Grover dgro...@redcedar.com Just got an email from Karl Gross of NAMES (the North American Model Engineering Society), which runs the NAMES

[Emc-users] Spindle positioning in degrees

2009-11-20 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Hello guys, i've already asked something similar in the forum but this is a simpler.. I read about the retrofit of the mazak that some of the guys made, and i'm making tests with an AC motor with a vfd and an encoder.. So i was wondering if i can make the spindle turn and stop in a given angle?

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle positioning in degrees

2009-11-21 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: Hello guys, i've already asked something similar in the forum but this is a simpler.. I read about the retrofit of the mazak that some of the guys made, and i'm making tests with an AC motor with a vfd

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle positioning in degrees

2009-11-23 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Well, i think i will improve my pid to make it more accurate and then continue with the tests. About the range of the angular axis, if i use the index-enable pulse of the mesa 5i20 encoder module (wich says that the position is reset to zero when an index pulse has ocurred) for reset the counter

Re: [Emc-users] GL

2009-11-25 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
I'm not an expert but in the hal file when you set the feedback and the scale for the W axis you used the pin axis.8.motor-pos-fb but i understand that W is the number 9 axis. I'm not sure if that affects the correct operation of the axis, but something similar happened to me. I hope i can help

[Emc-users] Jogwheel following error

2009-12-12 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Hello everybody, I'm having a little problem with my stepper configuration. Turns out that I have two hand wheels (one for X and the other one for the Z) connected to my mesa board via the gpio pins and linked to an encoder emc module for pulse readings. When I use hal meter the two handwheels

Re: [Emc-users] Jogwheel following error

2009-12-12 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Thank you guys for the help, as soon as I can access to the computer with the configuration I will post them here to see what's wrong. Best regards. Leonardo. 2009/12/12 Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:16:28PM -0300, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: Sorry but i'dont have

Re: [Emc-users] Jogwheel following error SOLVED

2009-12-14 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Hello again, today i could check the hal config, and it was a very simple error, the problem was that the Z axis is joint number 2 and in the hal config the jogwheel was linked to the joint number 1. Anyway thanks for your help as always :) Regards. Leonardo. 2009/12/12 Leonardo Marsaglia

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