Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Threading
The ramps are essential for full strength as they remove the need for a safety groove Dave Caroline On 19/05/2014, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote: On Sun, 18 May 2014 12:45:08 -0700, you wrote: I'm still not seeing why G76 has a entry and exit ramp. I believe the intent was to deal with Z acceleration time where the helix is not valid at the start (and I assume the end) of synchronized motion. Normally, one would start the thread off the part enough to have the Z and spindle locations synchronize in air. Absolutely. You start the thread in air so the tool is at correct feed/speed combination when it contacts the material. A good CAM program can work this distance out for you. Normally in the machine setup you tell it what the max feeds and acceleration are and you are able to enter a tolerance value so you have a little leeway. Otherwise you guess. For threads that need to start in the material rather than air, ramping may be used to ease into the thread until the helix is correct. But the way I see it, either way there will be a bit of bad helix at the start and end of the thread. Ramping-in cuts less material, so may get in the way more than plunge-and-go. Channeling before threading, so any material left will only have valid helix, seems better. I would like to know if there is any situation where ramping would be better than channeling or plunging. If the thread starts in the job, often parts are designed so there is a clearance groove in, out or both on the thread, a plunge can be made as long as the tool can accelerate to the correct feed within that groove. If that's not possible or desired a ramp in move in/out can be done, but the tool has to be at the correct feed when it hits the work - as long as the pitch of the thread doesn't alter, it's fine. Steve Blackmore -- -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Threading
On 19 May 2014 08:27, Dave Caroline dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com wrote: The ramps are essential for full strength as they remove the need for a safety groove You don't need a safety groove anyway with a conventional threading operation, the retract move seems consistent. I am prepared to believe that a taper-out might give a better stress concentration as the change in stiffness of the bolt is less sudden. The lead-in and -out probably see very little use, but at the same time there doesn't seem to be any penalty for them existing as an option. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] 5i25_7i77x2
On 19 May 2014 05:32, Konstantin Navrockiy nkp...@gmail.com wrote: We have a board 5i25 with firmware 5i25_7i77x2. Can only work one board 7i77 at connector P2? One 7i77 on connector P2 and one on P3. If you want a second 7i77 you will need a header-connector. A standard parallel-port one will work, and they are very cheap. eBay 271475206195 is typical. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] 5i25_7i77x2
On May 19, 2014 7:36 AM, Konstantin Navrockiy nkp...@gmail.com wrote: We have a board 5i25 with firmware 5i25_7i77x2. Can only work one board 7i77 at connector P2? It seems that we can only guess, what exactly is meant by this question. If it is meant as a question, if it is possible to attach one 7i77 to P2 and leave P3 empty, then yes, it will work just fine. Load necessary number of pwmgens or encoder modules in config= line in INI file. Viesturs -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Running EMC on older computers
IMHO, there’s a big “it depends” issue when we look at advice on computers. As I see it, there are at least three types of users — The first is the person who’s using their machines to make a living, or at least to turn a buck. For that user, I’d most likely recommend building your own computer using various motherboards, video boards, and I/O boards that places like Microcenter offer. Everything would be purchased new and would be replaceable. I’d also suggest purchasing additional I/O boards as these are what I’e expect to fail more often than the hard drive or mother board, etc. When you’re looking to use your machine as part of your livelihood, you don’t want to rely on a bunch of old used equipment. A failure could result in a significant loss - more than you’d spend for a current state-of-the-art system. They’ll also want to use the latest version of EMC/LinuxCNC once it’s been out for a while. The next person is the one who has metalworking as their hobby, or as a major part of their hobby. They’re not trying to turn a buck with their tools, but they’re generally found puttering in the shop making “this or that.” Here, they don’t need the latest and greatest - recently retired will do - but you want something that’s fast and and has replacement parts available. The PCG or Cybernet Elite II won’t cut the mustard. Too old, too slow, often not enough memory. They might be on the bleeding edge of being the first to install and try out the latest versions of EMC/LinuxCNC, depending on where their interests lie. And, finally, you come to folks like me. I purchased a Sherline mill lathe when I retired fourteen years ago - gads, has it been that long? - with the intention of building a brass locomotive. I’m in the “desktop machine” league, which tends to limit the speed at which I can do things. This plays well with using older equipment that can’t generate robust step pulses at high rates. But the PCG’s will support 20 ipm rapids with Sherline’s 20 tpi leadscrews and 4 microsteps per step motor drives. I don’t use these tools every day. Model trains and woodworking are my main hobbies. Metalworking is a sideline as necessary to support the main hobbies. I did a lot of factory automation projects when I was working - putting cameras, computers, and motors on manufacturing equipment to make or inspect things - so I’ve got some knowledge of computers and am not afraid of taking things apart. I’ve no real need to keep up with the latest and greatest version of EMC/LinuxCNC as long as the version I’m using allows me to do the things that I want to do. I’ve also played a lot with TurboCNC for DOS but it’s pretty much been abandoned which is why I moved to EMC. Obsolete computers that come cheaply work for me. Quite frankly, I was surprised that EMC V8 runs so nicely on the PCG that I bought when that machine was the state of the art. So much so that I’ve purchased a few extra Sony PCG's and have EMC installed on them, ready to go, in the event that the ones connected to my machines fail. I’ve found that eBay’s “buy it now” is my friend. BTW, I doubt that I’ll ever get that brass loco built, but I’m having fun building an Arduino based control system for the trains and using the Sherline mill to make circuit boards. Jerry Jankura So many toys. . . So little time . . . On May 19, 2014, at 5:07 AM, emc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: It's a 2Ghz or slower Pentium III, Socket 370 type. IIRC it takes PC100 or PC133 SDRAM, maximum of 2 gig. There was an optional PCI slot but to use that it couldn't have the optical drive installed. I used to have one of those. Decent for web browsing, e-mail and not much else. They were mainly marketed as POS systems and for office or front desk machines. -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Threading
The other place ramping seems to be quite important is in cutting a higbee thread. This operation follows the threading cycle with a grooving tool for the first thread, ramping out over one revolution to get rid of the sharp burr formed between a 60deg thread and a 45deg chamfer. I haven't actually made one of these higbees, but have read about them and tried to figure out how to make them. Here is one explanation: http://blog.cnccookbook.com/2012/06/16/programming-to-cut-a-higbee-thread-higbee-start-or-blunt-start-thread/ Lots of discussions on them on practicalmachinist cnc forum too. -- Ralph From: andy pugh [bodge...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 2:06 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Threading On 19 May 2014 08:27, Dave Caroline dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com wrote: The ramps are essential for full strength as they remove the need for a safety groove You don't need a safety groove anyway with a conventional threading operation, the retract move seems consistent. I am prepared to believe that a taper-out might give a better stress concentration as the change in stiffness of the bolt is less sudden. The lead-in and -out probably see very little use, but at the same time there doesn't seem to be any penalty for them existing as an option. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Feed control
On 19 May 2014 02:23, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote: Rude Andy! If you configure it once in 2008 why/how the hell would you remember what you did then? OK, perhaps Aram has had no requirement to change his LinuxCNC configuration for the last 6 years. To make the THCAD control feed rate: 1) Make sure that there is a spare encoder counter, find the relevant line in the HAL file and change it: loadrt hm2_pci config=num_encoders=4.. 2) Set the 4th encoder to counter-mode: setp hm2_5i20.0.encoder.03.counter-mode 1 3) set the scale such that 5V = 100% setp hm2_5i20.0.encoder.03.scale 1234.5678 (The number should be found by experiment) 4) Connect the encoder velocity to the adaptive-feed pin: net feed-control hm2_5i20.encode.03.velocity = motion.adaptive-feed Adaptive-feded is described here: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/motion.9.html -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Running EMC on older computers
On 05/19/2014 08:15 AM, toolznglue wrote: The first is the person who’s using their machines to make a living, or at least to turn a buck. For that user, I’d most likely recommend building your own computer using various motherboards, video boards, and I/O boards that places like Microcenter offer. I recommend Dell Optiplex desktops bought through eBay. Some of these come off lease, and are relatively new. The parallel ports are very well-engineered, and I'm sensitive to that as my boards (Pico Systems) need the IEEE-1284 (EPP mode) to work correctly. I just retired a Dell Optiplex that had been my desktop for TWELVE years, that 105,000 hours! I got it used on eBay but it was fairly new when I got it. Jon -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] 5i24?
On May 17, 2014 6:58 PM, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: 7I39 5V power You can check the config by looking at the dmesg list or running sudo mesaflash --device 5i24 --readhmid Both boards have 4,96 V on pins of 7i39's P1 (both receive power through flat cable). I checked with multimeter on back side of the both 7i39 boards, where pins of flat cable connector are sticking out. For board on 5i24's P2 enable pins (17 and 41) remain at 4,83 V regardless of LinuxCNC motion enable status, but for the board on 5i24's P3 those pins change to 0,11V, when motion is enabled and back to 4,83 V, when disable. The same board from P2 works fine, if attached to P3 with the same cable, so it is not a cable problem. So it seems to me that 5i24 board is not actually changing pin value, while HalShow thinks it is. I watched pwmgen enable signal in HalShow as I think that corresponds to that pwm-enable pin of firmware for 7i39. Is there something else I could do to confirm/reject that there is a fault in 5i24 card? Viesturs -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Need help compiling the simulator on Ubuntu 14.4
Am 18.05.2014 17:45, schrieb Rafael Skodlar: Erik, On 05/18/2014 12:42 AM, erik wrote: Hello everyone, Following these instructions http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Build_A_Simulator_Manually worked for my last setup with Ubuntu 12.4 (32Bit) quite well. Now I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.4 (64Bit) running and have trouble with the dependency libgnomeprintui2.2-dev. apt-get install does not find it (same for :i386). All other missing dependencies were installed without any problems. What do I have to do next? Cheers Erik try this: apt-cache search libgnomeprintui2 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 - GNOME print architecture User Interface - runtime files libgnomeprintui2.2-common - GNOME print architecture User Interface - common files libgnomeprintui2.2-dev - GNOME print architecture User Interface - devel files libgnomeprintui2.2-doc - GNOME print architecture User Interface - doc files cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS \n \l -- Rafael -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Thanks for the reply but it did not work. apt-cache returns noting: erik@e6300:~/development/projects/LinuxCNC$ sudo apt-cache search libgnomeprintui2 [sudo] password for erik: erik@e6300:~/development/projects/LinuxCNC$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 14.04 LTS \n \l apt-cache showpkg returns the following: erik@e6300:~/development/projects/LinuxCNC$ apt-cache showpkg libgnomeprintui* Package: libgnomeprintui2.2-0 Versions: Reverse Depends: wxmaxima,libgnomeprintui2.2-0 Dependencies: Provides: Reverse Provides: I downloaded the package and tried to install it manually, but the software-center refuses to install it. Erik -- mailto:e...@muenchen-ist-toll.de http://home.mnet-online.de/erikschuster -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] 5i24?
On Mon, 19 May 2014, Viesturs L?cis wrote: Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 18:17:07 +0300 From: [ISO-8859-13] Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller, (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 5i24? On May 17, 2014 6:58 PM, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: 7I39 5V power You can check the config by looking at the dmesg list or running sudo mesaflash --device 5i24 --readhmid Both boards have 4,96 V on pins of 7i39's P1 (both receive power through flat cable). I checked with multimeter on back side of the both 7i39 boards, where pins of flat cable connector are sticking out. For board on 5i24's P2 enable pins (17 and 41) remain at 4,83 V regardless of LinuxCNC motion enable status, but for the board on 5i24's P3 those pins change to 0,11V, when motion is enabled and back to 4,83 V, when disable. The same board from P2 works fine, if attached to P3 with the same cable, so it is not a cable problem. So it seems to me that 5i24 board is not actually changing pin value, while HalShow thinks it is. I watched pwmgen enable signal in HalShow as I think that corresponds to that pwm-enable pin of firmware for 7i39. Is there something else I could do to confirm/reject that there is a fault in 5i24 card? I will verify this combination under linuxcnc sometime today Viesturs -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics (\__/) (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your ()_() signature to help him gain world domination. -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.
Thanks to everyone who replied. Sounds like if I'm willing to accept slow performance, it's just a matter of trying to load LCNC and see if it will run on a particular box. Some of the older ones mentioned are in the range of the ones I have, so there is some hope. Thanks again. Raymond Julian Kettle River, MN The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968) On 05/18/2014 03:20 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 18 May 2014 01:14, rayj raymo...@frontiernet.net wrote: What's everyone's experience running LCNC on older computers. My lathe has been running on an old Xeon (Coppermine) 1U server for the last few years, I word fine, currently on Ubuntu 8,04 and a recent build of LinuxCNC. Looking on Wikipedia it seems that the computer is likely to be 10+ years old. Having said that, Atom motherboards are not exactly expensive. -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] 5i24?
On Mon, 19 May 2014, Viesturs L?cis wrote: Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 18:17:07 +0300 From: [ISO-8859-13] Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller, (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 5i24? On May 17, 2014 6:58 PM, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: 7I39 5V power You can check the config by looking at the dmesg list or running sudo mesaflash --device 5i24 --readhmid I didnt have any trouble setting the enables on all 6 of the 3pwmgens in svsttp6_6, I needed to have the fault-inverts set for all 6 pwmgens: setp hm2_5i24.0.3pwmgen.00.fault-invert true setp hm2_5i24.0.3pwmgen.01.fault-invert true setp hm2_5i24.0.3pwmgen.02.fault-invert true setp hm2_5i24.0.3pwmgen.03.fault-invert true setp hm2_5i24.0.3pwmgen.04.fault-invert true setp hm2_5i24.0.3pwmgen.05.fault-invert true net emcmot.00.enable = hm2_5i24.0.3pwmgen.00.enable axis.0.amp-enable-out net emcmot.01.enable = hm2_5i24.0.3pwmgen.01.enable axis.1.amp-enable-out net emcmot.02.enable = hm2_5i24.0.3pwmgen.02.enable axis.2.amp-enable-out setp hm2_5i24.0.3pwmgen.03.enable true setp hm2_5i24.0.3pwmgen.04.enable true setp hm2_5i24.0.3pwmgen.05.enable true set all 6 enables low (the first 3 only when the axis were enabled just because I happen to have a 3 axis test file) Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics (\__/) (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your ()_() signature to help him gain world domination. -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Running EMC on older computers
This discussion of old hardware is very timely, I am starting out with a Gateway 1gig, 640Megs RAM. I've run the test program for latency. Doesn't look good. I will have to decide how to proceed. End goal is a hobby engraver similar to one I built using MAXNC drive/motor kit. When I get a shop with room I'll see about something bigger. I have been lurking many years to this list, loaded a few installs just for a look, working through the docs now. I commend all that have developed this since taking it from NIST. -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Running EMC on older computers
second on the optiplex jeremy youngs On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: On 05/19/2014 08:15 AM, toolznglue wrote: The first is the person who’s using their machines to make a living, or at least to turn a buck. For that user, I’d most likely recommend building your own computer using various motherboards, video boards, and I/O boards that places like Microcenter offer. I recommend Dell Optiplex desktops bought through eBay. Some of these come off lease, and are relatively new. The parallel ports are very well-engineered, and I'm sensitive to that as my boards (Pico Systems) need the IEEE-1284 (EPP mode) to work correctly. I just retired a Dell Optiplex that had been my desktop for TWELVE years, that 105,000 hours! I got it used on eBay but it was fairly new when I got it. Jon -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Running EMC on older computers
On 5/19/2014 5:36 PM, jeremy youngs wrote: second on the optiplex How about a OptiPlex GX240? --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Running EMC on older computers
im running a 720, had an old 240 but never used it for lcnc jeremy youngs On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote: On 5/19/2014 5:36 PM, jeremy youngs wrote: second on the optiplex How about a OptiPlex GX240? --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Running EMC on older computers
I use GX270's successfully, but I didn't care much for running with 260's, so if a 240 is much slower than a 260 I'd keep looking. -- Ralph Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote: On 5/19/2014 5:36 PM, jeremy youngs wrote: second on the optiplex How about a OptiPlex GX240? --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] fest
On 05/16/2014 10:09 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Guys, Is there anything planned for this summer? OK, I made a vague offer of a get together in the Missouri Ozarks some time ago. BUT -- my friend's nephew went out to the cabin in January, turned on the water system and had pipes blow. I'm afraid he may not have drained the whole system and put antifreeze in the toilets and drain traps. So, there could be a HUGE mess there. My friend has not had a chance to go check the condition. This place does have electricity, but no internet, practically no cell phone service, and very limited accommodations. I offered it only as a place to have a big bull session, and maybe fool around on the river some. It would be MUCH better to have some place with more room, parking, net access and space to bring some small machines. If nothing else materializes, I'll try to set something up for maybe a long weekend once I find out how the cabin survived. Jon -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Running EMC on older computers
On 05/19/2014 06:53 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: On 5/19/2014 5:36 PM, jeremy youngs wrote: second on the optiplex How about a OptiPlex GX240? I use a GX260 to demo LinuxCNC at shows with my minimill. It works quite well. I think the GX240 is a pretty similar machine, just a little older. It should have decent latency and a rock solid parallel port. Jon -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] fest
still working on getting back to missouri jon, right now it looks like august. After i get back and get things lined back up im thinking my place provides all of the above and 7 miles from the eleven point river. but the earliest i see that working would be next year jeremy youngs On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: On 05/16/2014 10:09 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Guys, Is there anything planned for this summer? OK, I made a vague offer of a get together in the Missouri Ozarks some time ago. BUT -- my friend's nephew went out to the cabin in January, turned on the water system and had pipes blow. I'm afraid he may not have drained the whole system and put antifreeze in the toilets and drain traps. So, there could be a HUGE mess there. My friend has not had a chance to go check the condition. This place does have electricity, but no internet, practically no cell phone service, and very limited accommodations. I offered it only as a place to have a big bull session, and maybe fool around on the river some. It would be MUCH better to have some place with more room, parking, net access and space to bring some small machines. If nothing else materializes, I'll try to set something up for maybe a long weekend once I find out how the cabin survived. Jon -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Running EMC on older computers
On 5/19/2014 7:07 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 05/19/2014 06:53 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: On 5/19/2014 5:36 PM, jeremy youngs wrote: second on the optiplex How about a OptiPlex GX240? I use a GX260 to demo LinuxCNC at shows with my minimill. It works quite well. I think the GX240 is a pretty similar machine, just a little older. It should have decent latency and a rock solid parallel port. I have a stack (literally a tall stack) of Optiplex GX520 mini towers and one small form factor. I also have one each 745 tower, 755, 760 and 780 SFF. The 780 may become my new HTPC since it has a DisplayPort and there are DP to HDMI adapters or I could install a low profile PCIe x16 card with HDMI. (My current HTPC is an old Compaq EVO. Low profile AGP cards with HDMI do exist but they're insanely expensive.) Also in the lot is a 620 that won't turn on, all it does it light the yellow standby power LED on the board. It's not the common 620 capacitor problem nor the power supply. I moved that to one of the 520's that was missing its power supply. Then there's three mpc ClientPro 385 and some other towers, plus a pile of laptops including four mpc TransPort T2500 (same as Samsung X65). Just got power bricks for a couple of 17 Dell LCDs. Sadly, one has a star crack in the upper middle that's invisible until the backlight is on. The LCD itself is fine, so is the matte finish front layer. Get any color but black behind the crack and it almost vanishes. If you're anywhere near Weiser, ID, I have some computers. :) --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
