On Wednesday 10 October 2018 15:59:08 andy pugh wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 at 20:55, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not that big a file, from the g0704: > > I think I am prepared to state that that file does not interact in any > way with the multispindle changes.
I can't "see" it either. If and when one of us finds it, it will be a forehead slapper for sure. All I can say is that it did work, sorta, but now errors w/o killing lcnc. =========== Change of subject, I have the laser working quite well, and have had another thought. The beam is pretty well aligned, staying within a mm of center clear to the tailstock. So now I have in mind taping a small solar cell to the face of the tailstock barrel and reading its output with a DVM in milliamps mode. With a shutter to block some of the beam clamped to the toolpost I ought to be able to get well within a thou everywhere. Just spin the spindle fast enough the reading is stable on the DVM. No camera needed. Looks like I'll have to hit the yard sales and find something with a solar cell I can use, as I don't have one except for some calculators I don't want to tear up.. So haveing a small leak at the hot side of the water heater from a corroded connection, I went to Lowes and got a replacement armored flex hose to replace that, and a $3.95 stake light, which has a solar cell to charge a teeny nicad battery which lights up a white led at night, for about a half candlepower to mark the edge of your sidewalk. But it looks like, from the copper dots I can see, that ita fabbed as 4 cells wired in series to get enough to charge the nicad. So I may have to cover it with a diffuser to scatter the laser enough so all 4 cells get some of it. Thats of course a SWAG until I take it apart to get the cell(s) out of it. Any single cell based nightlights were CDS controlled which aren't at all stable with time and ambient humidity. And cost 2x as much! So we'll have to experiment to find the best way to rig it as a beam power measuring device. If I could break it to get one piece about .095" across or square, that would be ideal. -- 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> _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
