I'm running a 4gb pi4b on my Emco lathe with minimal issue. My pulses per unit are really high because of the screw pitch and belt reduction from the emco factory, but it still seems to get along nicely with the rest of the machine.
Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer On Sun, Jun 13, 2021, 9:29 AM Sam Sokolik <samco...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been happy with it. > Not been using the PI for production - mostly just tinkering. Doing some > pretty complicated configs. > > I have had it up for many days at a time with no issues... Running > programs that run hours... > > sam > > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 4:37 AM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > On Sunday 13 June 2021 04:49:19 John Dammeyer wrote: > > > > > > From: Andy Pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] > > > > > > > > > On 13 Jun 2021, at 00:28, Leonardo Marsaglia > > > > > <ldmarsag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I do have a Rpi3 > > > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > > > I don't know if that's a good candidate to test LCNC. > > > > > > > > I wouldn�t expect the 3B to work with Mesa Ethernet as the pre-4 Pis > > > > have the Ethernet in the USB bus. > > > > > > I've also read that the Pi4 8GB is not ideal for LinuxCNC. Apparently > > > it has issues with that much memory on the Pi. It works best with 4GB > > > apparently. > > > > > > John > > > > > My 2 Gig rpi4 is perhaps a bit crowded. ATM its showing an uptime of > > 18.75 days, and is 160 megs into swap. Swap itself is a 10G partition on > > a 120G SSD, separate from the 240 G work drive so that is working at > > USB3 speeds. I don't consider 160 megs to be a problem child unless it > > impacts the uptime, which at times has been several months as its on a > > small ups and I have automatic backup power that limits downtime to > > about 10 seconds even if the neighborhood is dark for hours. Recall that > > this pi is building and installing master or master-gtk3 many times a > > week. That is working harder than running LCNC. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Emc-users mailing list > > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > 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) > > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > > - Louis D. Brandeis > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
