Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-19 Thread Dave
What do the Chinese use when they equip a servo driven machine with encoders?? Surely they are not paying $50-60 per encoder? Dave On 6/19/2011 6:59 AM, Andy Pugh wrote: On 18 Jun 2011, at 23:14, Jon Elsonel...@pico-systems.com wrote: Do you know of anything a little less expensive

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-19 Thread Tom Easterday
I was having some issues with tuning servos with CUI encoder that are connected to Geckos and talked with Mariss. He said the the mounting interface of the CUI encoder can slip and has too much play (backlash) in it. He suggested putting a drop of super glue on the edge of the plastic piece

Re: [Emc-developers] A couple of questions

2011-06-19 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:44:38AM -0400, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: You would have to modify the G-code interpreter to add parameters to the M1xx calls, which would not be trivial. M1xx take two parameters already; I think they are P, Q.

Re: [Emc-developers] A couple of questions

2011-06-19 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
alan wrote: Hello everyone, I asked the two questions written below on the forum at linuxcnc.org and was advised that this group would be more likely to give me an answer. I understand that the user defined commands M100 etc allow me to run an external program but would it be possible to

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.4.7 release date?

2011-06-19 Thread s...@highlab.com
Until the release is made, you could point them at the buildbot... - Reply message - From: Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com Date: Sat, Jun 18, 2011 22:41 Subject: [Emc-developers] 2.4.7 release date? To: EMC DEV emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net

[Emc-developers] A couple of questions

2011-06-19 Thread alan
Hello everyone, I asked the two questions written below on the forum at linuxcnc.org and was advised that this group would be more likely to give me an answer. I understand that the user defined commands M100 etc allow me to run an external program but would it be possible to set up a command

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-19 Thread Jon Elson
Tom Easterday wrote: I was having some issues with tuning servos with CUI encoder that are connected to Geckos and talked with Mariss. He said the the mounting interface of the CUI encoder can slip and has too much play (backlash) in it. Yes, I have seen this on some samples of the CUI

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-19 Thread Topi Rinkinen
Hi, I have two Chinese BLAC servomotors. They are equipped with (Tamagawa's) something like: http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/330725161/Lift_the_original_factory_replacement_Tamagawa.html I also bought one spare encoder from the manufacturer, price was RMB 370, about USD 57. I have a little

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-19 Thread Dave
Wow. That is really cheap for a hollow shaft encoder. I wonder why someone is not importing those to the US?? Or perhaps they are? Dave On 6/19/2011 2:26 PM, Topi Rinkinen wrote: Hi, I have two Chinese BLAC servomotors. They are equipped with (Tamagawa's) something like:

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC and RT-Preempt

2011-06-19 Thread Michael Abel
Hi Lars, I walked a bit trough the code and tried some things out. There is already cleanup code to avoid this problem, but the cleanup works only when emc is started as root. It seems just like a problem with permissions. I recommend to start emc as root to avoid the problems. In case of

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC and RT-Preempt

2011-06-19 Thread Lars Segerlund
command line ... root@smurf:/home/ls/src/emc/emc2-dev/src/hal# chrt 99 ./shm_interface_test Error while shmget Semaphore value is 0 Waiting one second, then until semaphore gets released Segmenteringsfel dmesg ... [ 3579.723705] shm_interface_t[2462]: segfault at a76ad000 ip

Re: [Emc-developers] A couple of questions

2011-06-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/6/19 Stephen Wille Padnos spad...@sover.net: you can't use an external program to feed code to the interpreter. From my readings I understand that EMC1 had capability to accept commands from external programm through NML. I also read that much of that stuff was removed in EMC2 to simplify

Re: [Emc-developers] A couple of questions

2011-06-19 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 19.06.2011 um 17:44 schrieb Stephen Wille Padnos: alan wrote: Hello everyone, I asked the two questions written below on the forum at linuxcnc.org and was advised that this group would be more likely to give me an answer. I understand that the user defined commands M100 etc allow me

Re: [Emc-developers] A couple of questions

2011-06-19 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 19.06.2011 um 23:06 schrieb Viesturs Lācis: 2011/6/19 Stephen Wille Padnos spad...@sover.net: you can't use an external program to feed code to the interpreter. From my readings I understand that EMC1 had capability to accept commands from external programm through NML. I also read

Re: [Emc-developers] A couple of questions

2011-06-19 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 20.06.2011 um 01:15 schrieb Viesturs Lācis: 2011/6/20 Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at: do you refer to G-code from some external source or really NML commands from some external source? My idea was the first option - G-code from some external source. Very good point. I think the