Re: [Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/30 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 30 September 2011 11:39, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: setp bldc.2.value 1 That's Max Current. that bldc.2.value = 0.1 gives this smooth movement without any sound. A bare motor at full current can move a long way between servo

Re: [Emc-users] OT: drilling square holes

2011-09-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Thanks for sharing! I doubt that I would have imagined something like that... Viesturs 2011/9/30 Roland Jollivet roland.jolli...@gmail.com: Thought this may be of interest.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9wfgpqs2dE

Re: [Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/30 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 30 September 2011 19:41, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any chance that I have to set something that is not 8? That Keling's spreadsheet says that motor has 8 poles. With the motor in 0 mode and frequency 0 with low current

Re: [Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-29 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/28 Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com: On Sep 28, 2011, at 13:19 , Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Viesturs L?cis wrote: But with this I receive error, in which I find this line to be most important: [ 4776.024432] hm2/hm2_7i43.0: invalid token in config string:

Re: [Emc-users] calibrating stepper motor cnc

2011-09-29 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/29 Martin Patton mart...@gmail.com: The part looked right but the caliper says every dimension cut a little small. What is the range of deviances? What I mean, how consistent is the deviance in dimensions? Is it very close in all directions, is the error along one of the joints or is it

Re: [Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-29 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Ok, now EMC starts up and seems to be fine. I have one more question: Which of the pins should I connect pid.n.output to? There are 3 value pins, one for each phase: hm2_7i43.0.3pwmgen.00.A-value hm2_7i43.0.3pwmgen.00.B-value hm2_7i43.0.3pwmgen.00.C-value How is it supposed to be done? Pid

Re: [Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-29 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/29 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: Insufficient coffee error, redo from start. No, not correct at all. I would start with qh,qh,qh (Using i inmplies that you know where the index is relative to the poles.) Ok, got it! Thank You! One more question: Is it ok to route Hall signal in the

Re: [Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-29 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/29 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 29 September 2011 13:30, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Is it ok to route Hall signal in the same cable with encoder signal? Or are they going to disturb each other? It should be OK, otherwise you would be concerned about

Re: [Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-29 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/29 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Viesturs L?cis wrote: 2) If so, what should I do about motor GND connectors on 7i39 motor connection terminal block? Do I need to wire the motor case to them? Normally I would wire the motor frame ground to this point. Be

Re: [Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-29 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/29 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 29 September 2011 11:03, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: What is max number of the pattern? 47, I think. See man bldc To me it seems that Your suggested hi,hi,hi is telling - there is Hall sensor feedback and index signal

Re: [Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-29 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/29 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: Did you ever get any motor movement? No, I haven't. If not, something more basic is wrong (like PWM enable or initial voltage % (you have 10/166.6*28V) = 1.7V -deadzone which may be too low to generate much current especially if the PWM

Re: [Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-29 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/29 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 29 September 2011 17:56, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: That's a very long-winded way to do it. You can type setp bldc.0.pattern N in the Machine-ShowHalConfig window without having to restart EMC2. Thanks for the suggestion

Re: [Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-29 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/29 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 29 September 2011 19:11, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Those pins are Enable pins in firmware, so they are not available as GPIO pins. According to .PIN file, I need to change gpio.032 pin. EMC is showing error, that hm2_7i43.0

Re: [Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-29 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/29 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: HALmeter the 3PPWM fault signal, if its high, you may need to invert the external fault input signal(or tie that pin to the inactive state) Thanks! Fault is true. I'm sorry, but I do not really understand, how exactly can I fix that. Viesturs

Re: [Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-29 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/29 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 29 September 2011 20:15, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Fault is true. I'm sorry, but I do not really understand, how exactly can I fix that. There is a parameter .3pwmgen.N.fault-invert Thank You! Now the motor is oscillating. I

Re: [Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-29 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Config string says qh,qh,qh. Should I change something? Viesturs On 2011. gada 29. Sep. 22:38, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 September 2011 21:22, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: I checked all 47 patterns twice, none of them is rotating motor smoothly. Are you

[Emc-users] 3-phase pwmgens for 7i39

2011-09-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, gentlemen! I am trying to load 3-phase pwmgens on 7i43 for 7i39, but I receive error. With this one EMC loads correctly: CONFIG=firmware=hm2/7i43-4/SVST4_4_7I39.BIT num_encoders=3 num_pwmgens=3 num_stepgens=2 Note that this line requests single-phase pwm generators. So according to this

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Kollmorgen ServoStar 601 servo drive

2011-09-27 Thread Viesturs Lācis
I am using them with analog signal. There are no add-in interface cards. Viesturs 2011/9/27 Jan de Kruyf jan.de.kr...@gmail.com: What is the interface? Modbus? SERCOOS? j. On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.comwrote: 2011/9/27 Jan de Kruyf jan.de.kr

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Kollmorgen ServoStar 601 servo drive

2011-09-27 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/27 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com: On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 18:30 +0300, Viesturs Lācis wrote: I am using them with analog signal. There are no add-in interface cards. Viesturs 2011/9/27 Jan de Kruyf jan.de.kr...@gmail.com: What is the interface? Modbus? SERCOOS

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Kollmorgen ServoStar 601 servo drive

2011-09-27 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/27 Jan de Kruyf jan.de.kr...@gmail.com: What year are they? and what software version? (sorry I am so insistent but I am also trying to tie my experiences into the whole story) They were in machine that was produced in 2001, so I suppose that is when the drives might have been

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Kollmorgen ServoStar 601 servo drive

2011-09-27 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/27 Jan de Kruyf jan.de.kr...@gmail.com: Let me think this thing over, speak to customer,read my notes and speak a bit later. Ok, take Your time and let me know! Viesturs -- All the data continuously generated

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Kollmorgen ServoStar 601 servo drive

2011-09-27 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/27 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com: There seems to be a step/dir input, either through the RS232 PC port or SSI port. The PC connection seems simple enough, a simple RS232 three wire, Rx, Tx and Ground or CAN. What kind of motors and application is this for? The drives are

[Emc-users] Omron V1000 VFD Modbus

2011-09-24 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, gentlemen! I would like to ask, if anyone could share their experience with Omron V1000 VFD. More specifically, I am interested in getting the drive communicating with EMC through Modbus. Is there anything specific to know or to avoid? Thanks in advance! Viesturs

Re: [Emc-users] bug(s) in 2.4.6 using Gantrykins?

2011-09-23 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/23 Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu: Thanks Andy and Viesturs for responding.  Do you thing #1 in my original post (pasted below) is also related to the problem with Modes? Tom 1) If I go into Axis' Manual Control tab (in World Mode), and try to jog via keyboard keys I can only do that

[Emc-users] OT: Kollmorgen ServoStar 601 servo drive

2011-09-23 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, gentlemen! I would like to sell 4 pieces of Kollmorgen ServoStar 601 servo drives. Currently they are in my waterjet machine, but I would like to change them, because they are too complicated for the task and I finally am out of patience trying to get them right. Please let me know, if

Re: [Emc-users] bug(s) in 2.4.6 using Gantrykins?

2011-09-23 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/23 Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com: On Sep 23, 2011, at 04:19 , Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2011/9/21 Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu: 2) If I go into MDI tab (in World Mode) and click anywhere in the History box I can jog X/Z axis at any speed (set by Jog Speed slider), but if I try

Re: [Emc-users] hello people NEED your help

2011-09-22 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/22 Cristian Ruiz contacto_ru...@yahoo.com.ar: I have this problem and what it is, when I set the new machine gives me this error I think that the essence of problem is in this line: Could not open command file 'intento' How about some explanation, what did You do to get this error?

Re: [Emc-users] Remote access of EMC2 via cell phone data service

2011-09-18 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/18 Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com: Does anyone have any experience hooking a Linux box equipped with EMC2 up to a cell phone network for remote access/maintenance via the internet? IMHO best option is VNC. I do not know, if it requires some installation on the PC, but You definitely can connect

Re: [Emc-users] Remote access of EMC2 via cell phone data service

2011-09-18 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/18 Mark Cason farmerboy1...@yahoo.com: Dave asked how to connect a EMC2 system to a Cell Phone network, so he could access it remotely, and perform maintenance. I'm assuming that the computer may be in a location that is not served by Cable/DSL. Dave, could You, please, specify, what

Re: [Emc-users] Remote access of EMC2 via cell phone data service

2011-09-18 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/18 Mark Cason farmerboy1...@yahoo.com: I may be mistaken, but I don't think that is what he is looking for. My apologies, after reading the question for fourth time I finally understood that the question is about hardware, not software... Viesturs

Re: [Emc-users] Encoders on 7i48

2011-09-17 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, Peter! 2011. gada 16. septembris 16:23 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com rakstīja: Mode 2 is correct for the 7I48, what bit file are you using? My first email on this thread: I am using this customized firmware, that was kindly provided by Peter Wallace:

Re: [Emc-users] Encoders on 7i48

2011-09-17 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/17 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: Since you have no feedback until you get your encoders working, I would just try getting +- 10V out of the 7I48 by setting the output scale to 10, disconnecting the PWM .value from the PID loop and setting it manually in volts with setp ) try +10,

Re: [Emc-users] Encoders on 7i48

2011-09-17 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/17 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: I have 2 questions: 1) I have managed to get 2 joints oscillate around zero, (which tells me that they need have PID parameters adjusted). There is a problem with a third joint, which just runs away. When I try to change something for that third

[Emc-users] Encoders on 7i48

2011-09-16 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, gentlemen! I would like to ask, if someone can suggest me, why I do not see encoders in HAL Config. I have pasted a screenshot here: http://www.cutting.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/emc2.png I have Mesa 7i48 card, attached to 7i43. The config line tells hm2 driver to load 6 pwm gens, 6

Re: [Emc-users] Encoders on 7i48

2011-09-16 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011. gada 16. septembris 13:53 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com rakstīja: 2011/9/16 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 16 September 2011 11:26, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: From manual: The 7I48 takes up/down PWM or PDM signals from the Anything I/O card From http

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel port card that just works

2011-09-14 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/14 schoone...@tiscali.co.uk schoone...@tiscali.co.uk: Re EPP mode only being required for Mesa etc Thats a theory I have been told before, but I found that using pins 2-9 for IO simply did not work unless the card was in EPP mode. The pins were shown as created but when you tested the

Re: [Emc-users] Foxconn motherboard

2011-09-10 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/9 Andrew parallel.kinemat...@gmail.com: FYI: my Intel D525MW works with 7i43. Yesteday I spent whole day trying to get any of the two D525s to work with any of the two 7i43s I have. I think that I tried every possible thing - I tried all the settings in BIOS that are LPT related, tried

Re: [Emc-users] Foxconn motherboard

2011-09-10 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/10 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com: Viesturs Lācis wrote: So now both 7i43s work with both D525s and I have no idea, why did they change their mind. Wow, that is a bit scary. If it had something to do with a wrong parameter setting, then you should be fine. If not, then there's

[Emc-users] Foxconn motherboard

2011-09-09 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, folks! I would like anyone with experience with Foxconn to share, if I have any chance to get their D525 board working with Mesa 7i43 card. I have 2 D525 boars and 2 7i43 boards and none of them seem to work. Viesturs

Re: [Emc-users] M3/M4 and M5

2011-09-05 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/4 Karl Cunningham ka...@keckec.com: On 09/03/2011 12:37 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: Yes, You need to set spindle speed at least once in the code with S word. I also had this situation... I have a question, hopefully to start some discussion: How hard would it be to remove (at least

Re: [Emc-users] M3/M4 and M5

2011-09-05 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011. gada 5. septembris 21:59 Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com rakstīja: Look in src/emc/motion I see some code near the bottom of control.c some where around the line number starting at 1739 of emc2.5 Thank You! I already changed my mind, because I do not understand, what is going

Re: [Emc-users] M3/M4 and M5

2011-09-05 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/5 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: 2011/9/5 Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com: Look in src/emc/motion I see some code near the bottom of control.c some where around the line number starting at 1739 of emc2.5 Maybe 1499 of src/emc/motion/command.c ? That looks a bit easier, if

Re: [Emc-users] AC servos

2011-09-05 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/5 Andrew parallel.kinemat...@gmail.com: Hi everybody, I'm looking for inexpensive servos for plasma table. I know DMM and Keling. There are also used Mitsubishi/Yaskawa etc. on ebay. What else can you suggest? Are You looking for motors and/or drives? Viesturs

Re: [Emc-users] M3/M4 and M5

2011-09-05 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/5 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 5 September 2011 21:08, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/9/5 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: Maybe 1499 of src/emc/motion/***command.c*** Damn!!! My apologies! Thanks, I will take a look. Viesturs

Re: [Emc-users] M3/M4 and M5

2011-09-03 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/3 Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com: This gives me in the Axis display to buttons to turn the spindle on and off. When pressing the two buttons with the left mouse button or F9 the pin 14 followes the state of the buttons of the display, maening going high and low. When trying

Re: [Emc-developers] Linear scales

2011-09-03 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/9/2 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com: If you have a lot of backlash between the motor and the scale (mostly would be worn ball nuts) then you will have a problem with a lot of servo hunting. The only linear scale systems I am familiar with is on some of Stuart Stevenson's large

[Emc-users] Pin numbers in 50 pin cable for Mesa cards

2011-09-02 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, gentlemen! I have a queation: how are pins numbered in 50 pin cable for Mesa cards? Is it like in 25 pin LPT ribbon cable, where the order is 1, 14, 2, 15 etc or is the order normal - 1, 2, 3, 4 etc? Viesturs --

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe questions

2011-08-31 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/31 Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com: I would like to ask about this, because in my head I always think about the complication with the tracking of the C axis when this one behaves like a spindle. What I don't picture very well, is, what would happen If I use the spindle

Re: [Emc-users] Alarms

2011-08-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/30 Les Newell les.new...@fastmail.co.uk: Try this comp I knocked up some time back. It can be set up to generate an alarm message when a HAL pin changes state. I think that this component deserves to be included in EMC2. Viesturs

Re: [Emc-users] D510 EPP problem

2011-08-27 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/27 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com: Peter C. Wallace wrote: It may in fact be something else (maybe a bad port), as Kirks patch doesnt seem to help on viesturs machine and his port acts funny reading 0s with nothing attached while my test machine reads FFs. I also show 0 trouble with

Re: [Emc-users] D510 EPP problem

2011-08-26 Thread Viesturs Lācis
On 2011. gada 26. Aug. 08:35, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com 0x0378 is the only proper base address, 0x037A is not a good base address and causes a write to the proper port's unknown territory two addresses above the ECR, which may cause the card to barf (?) I found that 037a

[Emc-users] D510 EPP problem

2011-08-25 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, gentlemen! I am having difficulties with getting Mesa 7i43 card working on D510 board. I have set parport to EPP in BIOS. I have checked it at least 4 times. But dmesg shows: [8.962720] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP] I reinstalled Lucid this morning, but that did not

Re: [Emc-users] D510 EPP problem

2011-08-25 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/25 Mark Wendt mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil: On 08/25/2011 04:59 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: Hello, gentlemen! I am having difficulties with getting Mesa 7i43 card working on D510 board. I have set parport to EPP in BIOS. I have checked it at least 4 times. But dmesg shows: [    8.962720

Re: [Emc-users] D510 EPP problem

2011-08-25 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/25 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com: On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 08:51 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: ...snip But dmesg shows: [    8.962720] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP] PCSPP above seems to indicate that the port is not in EPP mode. Would setting the proper bit in a

Re: [Emc-users] D510 EPP problem

2011-08-25 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/25 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: What is the exact part# of the motherboard and BIOS version#? BIOS version: MOPNV10J.86A.0115.2009.1006.2145 Board model: D510MO Board version: AAE76523-302 Serial number: BTMO943005AQ Viesturs

Re: [Emc-users] D510 EPP problem

2011-08-25 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/25 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: 2011/8/25 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: What is the exact part# of the motherboard and BIOS version#? BIOS version: MOPNV10J.86A.0115.2009.1006.2145 Updated BIOS to: MOPNV10J.86A.0311.2010.0802.2346 As it may be expected, problem

Re: [Emc-users] D510 EPP problem

2011-08-25 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/25 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com: On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 19:57 +0300, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2011/8/25 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com: On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 08:51 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: ...snip But dmesg shows: [    8.962720] parport0: PC-style at 0x378

Re: [Emc-users] D510 EPP problem

2011-08-25 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011. gada 25. augusts 21:33 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com rakstīja: Kirk, does this mean some kind of success? waterjet@waterjet:~$ sudo ./showport 0378 037a e ~ Base @ 0x378 Extended @ 0x37a DPR: 4 DSR: 87 DCR: 204 EPPA: 255 EPPD: 255 CFA: 204 CFB: 255 ECR: 255

Re: [Emc-users] D510 EPP problem

2011-08-25 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/25 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 25 August 2011 19:40, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: [  189.241288]  hm2_7i43.0: firmware: requesting hm2/7i43/SVST4_4B.BIT [  189.269775] hm2/hm2_7i43.0: board has FPGA '3s200tq144', but the firmware in hm2/7i43/SVST4_4B.BIT

Re: [Emc-users] D510 EPP problem

2011-08-25 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/25 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com: Oops,  255 int ECR looks suspicious, usually the extended register is 0x400 above the base, so 0x378 + 0x400 = 0x778. Might try sudo ./showport 0378 0778 e Ok, tried that. How does this look? waterjet@waterjet:~$ sudo ./showport 0378 0778

[Emc-users] 7i43 problem

2011-08-24 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello gentlemen! I am stuck with getting 7i43 to be recognized by EMC2. I (believe, that I) have 7i43-U-4, jumpers on the board are set as follows: W1 - up W2 - up W3 - up W4 - down W5 - down W6 - down W7 - up The board is connected to external +5V power source. I have EMC 2.4.6, Lucid and

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 problem

2011-08-24 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/24 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Viesturs Lacis wrote: 2011/8/24 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: Not sure about the PCSPP that sure sounds like SPP = Standard Parallel Port as opposed to PCEPP I restarted PC and checked BIOS again. It has EPP there. Is

Re: [Emc-users] Retrofit manual

2011-08-23 Thread Viesturs Lācis
I am sorry, I do not understand Your question. What exactly would You like to know? Viesturs Just interesting in what machine are you talking about --that made in ussr?  Thanks aram Since the machine was produced in USSR, I am pretty sure that the factory has been closed years ago.

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with gantry setup

2011-08-21 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/21 Bryce Johnson sie...@gmail.com: Now what I want to do is use gantrykins so I can home my X joints separately. Ok.  I based my config off of the stepper-gantry in the config. Well, my advice, when You are using existing sample configs for Your machine, is to adjust also the

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with gantry setup

2011-08-21 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/21 Bryce Johnson sie...@gmail.com: I know I want to leave some headroom between the Traj planner and the stepper.   Is that the diff between [AXIS_0] STEPGEN_MAXACCEL and MAX_VELOCITY  and [TRAJ] MAX_ACCELERATION and MAX_VELOCITY? Yes. The way I understand it is that [TRAJ] section

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 fpga internal input pull ups - could sb synthesise another firmware for the 7i43 with pull downs for GPIO pins please ?

2011-08-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, gentlemen! I have very similar problem to Maximilian's. I have 2 relays, that are active high. 7i43's outputs are active low. Those relays open high pressure valve and also abrasive valve in waterjet machine. Can anyone suggest me some kind of simple hardware signal invertor? Viesturs

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 fpga internal input pull ups - could sb synthesise another firmware for the 7i43 with pull downs for GPIO pins please ?

2011-08-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/19 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 19 August 2011 08:17, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone suggest me some kind of simple hardware signal invertor? I guess that using the normally closed terminal on the relays isn't an option? Actually I was thinking about

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 fpga internal input pull ups - could sb synthesise another firmware for the 7i43 with pull downs for GPIO pins please ?

2011-08-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/19 Andrew parallel.kinemat...@gmail.com: 2011/8/19 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com Hello, gentlemen! I have very similar problem to Maximilian's. I have 2 relays, that are active high. 7i43's outputs are active low. Those relays open high pressure valve and also abrasive

Re: [Emc-users] D510 dead?

2011-08-03 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/3 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com:h The D510 has a jumper setting that will reset the BIOS to factory default. I would try that. It may have lost power to the SATA adaptor and is waiting forever for a hard drive to come alive. And, of course, you need to make sure your display is

[Emc-users] D510 dead?

2011-08-02 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, gentlemen! I have a D510 board that has not been used for a while and now, when I press the button to turn it on, PSU fan starts turining, green LED on the board turns on, at least one LED on 7i43 turns on, but screen is still black. I cannot determine, if there is any HDD activity,

Re: [Emc-users] D510 dead?

2011-08-02 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/2 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: Does anyone have an idea, how to determine, what is wrong? Nevermind, problem solved. I pulled out RAM stick, blew of dust and put in the other slot and it works now. Viesturs

Re: [Emc-users] Retrofit manual

2011-08-01 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/8/1 robert rob...@innovative-rc.com: Retro on a CNC mill http://www.linuxcnc.org/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,20/func,view/catid,30/id,559/lang,english/ and CNC Lathe, hardinge http://www.linuxcnc.org/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,20/func,view/catid,30/id,12060/lang,english/

Re: [Emc-developers] motion.motion-enabled reported as an input but its not

2011-07-31 Thread Viesturs Lācis
IMHO being an input pin makes perfect sense - when there is hardware switch for enable/disable, so such an input pin is needed to inform EMC about it. I even think that it is meant to be input pin for motion enabled, because there are amplifier enable output pins. I agree, that it would great to

Re: [Emc-developers] motion.motion-enabled reported as an input but its not

2011-07-31 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/31 Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com: Thats what motion.enabled is for (it's an input) My apologies, I should have checked before writing. Viestusr -- Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick

Re: [Emc-users] Adding parallel port

2011-07-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/30 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com: I believe EPP is the magic acronym. EPP mode is only for communication with external I/O hardware, like Mesa cards. Farzin, You should check, if that add-in card supports data input on pins 2-9. AFAIK not all do. Viesturs

Re: [Emc-users] Remote desktop

2011-07-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/28 Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com: VNC to the desktop its part of ubuntu by default, just tick the allow others to control the desktop box Thanks for the suggestions! I think that this is the solution I will try to stick with. Partly because it already is part of Ubuntu, I can save

[Emc-users] Keling Inc

2011-07-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, gentlemen! I have been trying to visit www.Kelinginc.net for past few days, but it seems that the site is not available. Does anyone know, if the company is out of business or is that just the homepage issue? I was planning to use their motors for the router I am building, but now I am

Re: [Emc-users] Keling Inc

2011-07-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/28 Mark Wendt mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil: Viesturs, This worked for me just now: http://www.kelinginc.net/index.html WTF? I just emailed the link to my girlfriend and it worked for her, but for me also this link does not open. Thanks for telling that the page is all right, I will try to

[Emc-users] Retrofit manual

2011-07-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, gentlemen! I need to make an offer for retrofitting pretty big 3 axis milling machine with toolchanger and electronically controlled gearbox for changing spindle speed. I would like to ask, if anyone can share some source of reading about the whole process. I have done retrofit on my

[Emc-users] EMC2 modes

2011-07-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello again! I am having a discussion with Andy Pugh about different modes of EMC2, their purpose and differences. And I would like to ask, if someone more knowledgeable can help to clarify few things about them. There are 2 control modes, 3 motion modes and 3 operation modes: Control :

Re: [Emc-users] Keling Inc

2011-07-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/28 Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net: At what level is it failing? Is your DNS even finding it, i.e. what is the result of: $ dig www.kelinginc.net This is the result of dig www.kelinginc.net. Could You, please, help me understand, what does it mean? vie@vie:~$ dig

Re: [Emc-users] food for thought (correction)

2011-07-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Actually I wrote that :)) Viesturs 2011/7/28 Kent A. Reed knbr...@erols.com: Errm. I meant Dave, not Mark. Sorry -- Got Input?   Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online.  Come on, we don't ask for help

Re: [Emc-users] Retrofit manual

2011-07-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/28 Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com: If it still runs, study the machine with the help of the operator if possible. Operators are oftentimes a great source of information. Plus if you get along with them well, they will tend to help you out if they know that you want to help them out. Oftentimes

Re: [Emc-users] Keling Inc

2011-07-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/28 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com: On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 11:07 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.kelinginc.net.      29      IN      CNAME   sbsfe.geo.mf0.yahoodns.net

Re: [Emc-users] Keling Inc

2011-07-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/28 Mark Wendt mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil: No, that just means that your local DNS server has an IP address for that domain name, most likely stored in it's cache.  That doesn't necessarily mean that the machine you are on has a working route to that IP address. Ok, then I will just wait

Re: [Emc-users] Keling Inc

2011-07-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/28 Andrey stormbringe...@mail.ru: Viesturs , ( a little out of topic ) I bought the servomotors KL34-170-90 and gearboxes(1\10) from Keling Technology. These devices are tested for two days with my gantry milling machine. Problems during operation of the devices were

Re: [Emc-users] Retrofit manual

2011-07-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Thank You, Jan! Andrew, that machine looks even bigger! What is that rotating carousel? Fancy type of toolchanger? Viesturs -- Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for

Re: [Emc-users] Machine re-control with two X axes

2011-07-27 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/27 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: You need to install the kinematics module, so navigate to the place where you extracted the files, and then:  sudo comp --install swapkins.c You will be asked for your password. You will get three warning messages, ignore them. Dave, take into account

Re: [Emc-users] Machine re-control with two X axes

2011-07-26 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/26 Andrew parallel.kinemat...@gmail.com: 2011/7/26 Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com: My question is:  What would be the best way to implement this two X axis control scheme with EMC2? I'd suggest a custom kinematics file, probably based on gantrykins. With HAL pin connected to hardware switch

Re: [Emc-users] Undesired motion when stopping the program

2011-07-26 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/26 yann jautard brico...@free.fr: Reinstalling the whole thing is not possible now. When this 6-months-late work is over, I'll look into it. If You compiled it from source, then You can get the source of newer version (2.4.6, for example) and then rebuild. Or You can get another PC,

Re: [Emc-users] Machine re-control with two X axes

2011-07-26 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/26 Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com: I was thinking that moving both tables to the same position might be a problem, but now I am thinking that might be the simplest solution. I do not see a problem here. Just one line in g-code like this: G0 X10 U10 Put whatever coordinate is most convenient.

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/25 Mark Cason farmerboy1...@yahoo.com: Doing whois on the various IP's finds this little gem.  Does anybody on this list live in Latvia? I do! Please don't tell me that You suspect this place as the main source of spam :)) Do You want to check some info in header of email that is sent

Re: [Emc-users] Remote desktop

2011-07-20 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/20 Thomas Powderly tomp4...@gmail.com: Could you explain a bit about this feature? this one has 2 independent THC sensors working together. There are 2 THC solutions installed on machine: 1) inductive sensor, with a small arm and a ring at arms end, the ring is located approximately so

Re: [Emc-users] Remote desktop

2011-07-20 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/19 Andrew parallel.kinemat...@gmail.com: Hello, Viesturs! You can use built-in Ubuntu remote desktop. Duhhh, should have looked for myself! Thank You! From the link it turns out that this Remote desktop tool already has VNC in it. It seems like a perfect match for what I meant. I guess I

Re: [Emc-users] Remote desktop

2011-07-20 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/20 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: BTW their first page mentions only windows and macs, but I hope that they are not that evil. Oh, no, they are evil! No Linux :(( I was offered to download a .msi file, which is some windows installer file. But I still have that remote desktop

Re: [Emc-users] D525MW EMC2 demo

2011-07-20 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/20 Neil emc_d...@narwani.org: Got the Intel D525MW Mini-ITX board, and got EMC2 running yesterday on our home-brew robotic workcell.  Went pretty smooth and quick, especially since my high-school mentees are doing most of this work. Probably not as fascinating to most of you who already

Re: [Emc-developers] Preempt-RT ... where to put the patches ?

2011-07-20 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Out of curiosity I tried to find results for D510 and D525 boards - they both are mentioned in the list of tested systems. This is D510: https://www.osadl.org/Latency-plot-of-system-in-rack-1-slot.qa-latencyplot-r1s4.0.html?latencies=showno=slider=228 This is D525:

Re: [Emc-users] XYZA home all?

2011-07-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Niels, You can home all the joints with Home all buttons, even if there is no homing switch for one of the joints. I did that for the welding robot - the rotary head did not (AFAIK it still does not) homing switch, but it homed together with all the other joints, which had homing switches. In

Re: [Emc-users] XYZA home all?

2011-07-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/19 Niels Jalling ni...@jalling.dk: Hi Viesturs Thank you for the tip. It worked. Before made by Stepconf for the a-axis: ... MAX_LIMIT = .0 HOME_OFFSET = 0.0 eof inifile I added to my inifile ... MAX_LIMIT = .0 HOME_OFFSET = 0.0 HOME_SEQUENCE = 0  -- eof inifile So

Re: [Emc-developers] gladevcp documentation - please disregard the wiki, use v2.5 docs

2011-07-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/18 Pavel Shramov shra...@mexmat.net: It depends on what you want. Replacing Gnome session with DWM is just a stripping down list of services that are launched on session start. It's possible to deny everything except mouse clicks (as it's used in true kiosk installations) but for CNC

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