Look what happens when I don't check email for a few days.. now I'm even more behind ;-)
On May 22, 2010, at 11:02 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 23 May 2010, Michael Jones wrote: >> Ok.. so here's the weird thing... >> >> I completely purged the NVIDIA proprietary drivers from the system, >> and now OpenGL loads with the NV driver? Some weird incompatibility >> going on I suppose. But now I noticed that I don't have any sound.. >> can't win for loosing... I guess I don't really NEED sound on this >> machine but it bothers me that it's not there. > > Now that you mention it, I have never even had speakers on that box. > Couldn't see any great need for it when the machine and its cooling > fans are > enough to make you forget your wifes name. I have serious fans on > my xylotex > 4 axis rig, 2 old psu fans, but they are running on about 19 volts, > so they > _scream_ right along at probably 8k rpms, maybe more. > >> With the NV Driver I'm able to get smooth motion from 0 to around >> 50ipm (screws and bearingless screws) on my little rebuilt D&M4s, but >> I'm wondering if things might be even a little cleaner with the vesa >> driver - I'll have to check that one out. > > Thats not too bad from where I sit, how pure are the tones from the > motors > when running at a steady speed? If it sounds raspy, thats > generally not > great. > The sounds from the motors are nice and pure.. took me a bit of tinkering with the settings to get stuff "JUST" right but now .. works like a dream. The downside now is that when I run it at that speed (usually only for prototyping in foam or similar) the lack of bearings in the axis interface causes it to chatter a little and get cranky. Bearings of some kind on at least the X axis is my next project >> This little machine needs some more work and upgrades (better >> backlash >> control.. needs to be refit with some bearings on the interface >> between the Screw and the axes) before it works the way I want it to, > > I did that too, using small radial thrust bearings a bit preloaded. > That > helped a bunch. Now if it just had some decent nuts. :( > >> but for now it does pretty well. I'm also thinking of a 4th axis.. >> but before that happens.. I have to get it working again. >> >> Thanks for the suggestions. > > Glad I could help, Michael. > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Dead? No excuse for laying off work. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
