On Saturday 28 January 2017 17:03:35 andy pugh wrote: > On 28 January 2017 at 20:25, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > I can't qualify it as "rarely-used" here, Andy. I don't have a hal > > file that doesn't have some outputs that are there just to watch > > something. > > You run "Halshow" all the time? Even when the machine is running > normally?
Not halshow, but halmeter's. Sometimes as many as 8 when I am tracing my often broken logic. But when its working, the stub stuff rarely gets excised from the hal file when its working, but the halmeters don't get started when I no longer need them. In working on those chuck locking collar's I had 2 problems today. Running the G0704 to drill the stuff in the rim preparatory to fitting a 5mmx.8 draw screw to tighten it on the edge og the spindle flange, I had it positioned and touched off at the centerline of the screws, bore, so I took a wild guess at how deep the screw hole should be, guessed 1.5" because I had not found when the er-32 nut holding the drill, was going to hit the rim and chew it up. g1 f2 z-1.5". And when I hit the return key it drove z down to -1.5, but it drove it at about 50 ipm, moving the work piece in the vice, so I had to start over, locating it in the vice & making sure it couldn't move again. When I had restored its position in the vice, and touched off a new x0y0z0 position, I uparrowed in the MDI history and reran it. Worked perfectly. Murphy? DamnedifIknow. Then I took the ring, whose gap I had not sawn yet, off the mill and chucked it on the lathe from the inside, and proceeded to make first swarf. I had not reduced the error and ferror settings below 10.xxx if the .ini file yet. But I fooled around, driving it by hand for close to 2 hours spindle run time, without a single joint error. But one thing's bugging me, this damned pi doesn't always ack the key up, so the axis I needed to bump a thou, keeps on moving at creep speeds until I hit and release a key. Any key. It like the keyboard has its name in the priority list at a very low priority position. Looking at the usb stuff when it has nothing else to do. Anybody know anything about that? It's been an intermittent since day one. I have several keyboards, and when its of a mind to make a problem, changing keyboards has never helped, as is a reboot will often clear it up All are usb, and if it being a problem, switching from wired to wireless doesn't effect the error rate. Clues? I've tickled it extensively without a finger to put on it. Thanks everybody. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
