Re: [Emc-developers] Mesa Sigma5ABS module

2020-05-06 Thread Curtis Dutton
So I have made significant progress on the sigma5abs encoder front. I have designed a manchester transiever in vhdl and integrated it into hostmot2 firmware as well as linuxcnc. I am close to having a fully functioning driver. However there are a few mysteries remaining. This is the first absolute

Re: [Emc-developers] startup anomaly on OLD LinuxCNC

2020-05-06 Thread Jon Elson
On 05/06/2020 11:26 AM, Sam Sokolik wrote: I think the splash gcode sets the units to mm... So if your program doesn't change it back to inches you will get odd behavior... (I think) WOW, thank you! Yes, that could completely explain the behavior. I normally leave the machine in inch mode

Re: [Emc-developers] startup anomaly on OLD LinuxCNC

2020-05-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 May 2020 12:26:15 Sam Sokolik wrote: > I think the splash gcode sets the units to mm... So if your program > doesn't change it back to inches you will get odd behavior... (I > think) That stuff has a place in the ini file, which may be overrode by the splash. But I've not

Re: [Emc-developers] startup anomaly on OLD LinuxCNC

2020-05-06 Thread Sam Sokolik
I think the splash gcode sets the units to mm... So if your program doesn't change it back to inches you will get odd behavior... (I think) On Tue, May 5, 2020, 3:55 PM Jon Elson wrote: > Yes, I KNOW, this is a REALLY old version, but just thought > I'd report it. > > I'm running LinuxCNC