On Thursday 01 December 2016 18:09:27 W. Martinjak wrote: > Hi Gene, > > On 2016-12-01 03:03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And I never would have started on the raspi without > > > > "W. Martinjak" <mats...@play-pla.net> > > > > proding and help. > > > > Then he got ill, and hasn't replied in a while, so I hope he is > > recovering from whatever. > > I'm fit again, but now very busy with the "real life" job. > Hope I can continue cnc tinkering in the christmas holidays. :) > > > In any event, thank you Sir! > > Thank you very much for testing my driver and this success report. > I'm very glad that it works.
I am not so sure that I am 'test'ing your driver. The currently runing image is from 2016-09-23-raspbian-jessie.img, which is a bit north of 4.3GB when unpacked and written to the u-SD card by sudo dd if='2016-09-23-raspbian-jessie.img' bs=1M conv=fsync of=/dev/sdg sudo sync I had to add the spi modules to /etc/modules. But the default user 1000 is pi, so I edited the u-sd card to nuke the user pi, substituting me as in the previous lite version. And it just refused me perms to run synaptic, so this time I edited the x out of the string in passwd, then while root, put in a rather lengthy passwd I can remember, plus I put it inside the box with a p-touch labeler. But I finally think I found the source of a strong odor of burning electronics that seemed to be in the garage sunday, but I couldn't find anything emitting heat above 75F with an IR thermometer. The supply(s) for the x motor are now down about 5 volts from where I had set them, and the green led on the 2m542 x motor driver is very dim, but it does not further drop the voltage when I plug the drivers power plug from the supply back in. Sitting in the box while I did battle with SBC's, only the x driver had a signal, and neither had a motor connected in months, so just sitting there doing zip. I've NDI which has upchucked, but I just bought 2 more supplies, each able to do the job by itself, and 2 more M542-T, very similar to the DM542's I've been useing forever without a failure in 6 or 7 years. That, if its bad, was the 7nth out of my original order. So at this point I am out of business driving the x motor till they sail their junk across the big pond. But I can go ahead and get the Z motor wired up and moving, and the encoder hooked up, and spin the spindle, maybe get some home switches rigged, and maybe even some limits. Right limit for Z might be two switches, one on the saddle so it won't bang on the tailstock, and one on the bed for when the tailstock is off. And since we're into 40F weather, I believe I'll see about pushing it into the garage another foot because once the controller box is mounted, I don't have room enough between the closed door and the box to work in it. I would have built an even bigger garage when I built this one back in 2008, but I was out of real estate to the west. Sigh... > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Good Luck, Matsche. > > PS:'hope your diagnosis is wrong. Skin cancer? They've already used a sharp backhoe on my face 3 times in the last 15 years. I am pretty white, and have burned easily all my life so I'm not too surprised. At 82 yo, some things do tend to fall apart. :) 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-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
