Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 16 May 2020 19:41:18 andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 00:07, Gene Heskett wrote: > > It, when free, also has half a degree of backlash. The adjuster > > screw Andy told me about is locked by a screw thru the front face > > that can only be accessed thru an index hole in the

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-16 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 00:07, Gene Heskett wrote: > It, when free, also has half a degree of backlash. The adjuster screw > Andy told me about is locked by a screw thru the front face that can > only be accessed thru an index hole in the plate behind this dummy > faceplate, so... Doesn't it

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 15 May 2020 16:43:50 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 15 May 2020 14:39:12 Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > > > On Thursday 14 May 2020 14:57:59 Chris Morley wrote: > > > > Well I dare say that a VFD counts as hardware. > > > > I use serial data from my VFD for spindle RPM display. > > > > > >

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 15 May 2020 14:39:12 Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > > On Thursday 14 May 2020 14:57:59 Chris Morley wrote: > > > Well I dare say that a VFD counts as hardware. > > > I use serial data from my VFD for spindle RPM display. > > > > > > My point was though that to get actual RPM back to a gui

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-15 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
> On Thursday 14 May 2020 14:57:59 Chris Morley wrote: > > > Well I dare say that a VFD counts as hardware. > > I use serial data from my VFD for spindle RPM display. > > > > My point was though that to get actual RPM back to a gui you pretty > > much use HAL and can't use NML (currently

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-15 Thread Reinhard
Hi Chris, thanks again for the trigger. I don't know, what happened ... > As soon as I start a program with halaccess without the help of halcmd, it > crashes. And I have no idea why. I stil don't have any idea - but same crashing code now works without problems. Just recompiled it. What

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Reinhard
Hi Chris, thanks a lot for your hints. I'll follow your advices asap. Reinhard ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
ays). > > Chris Unfortunately, the vfd's I have bought are totally w/o even the footprint for a serial port on the pcb's. And yes, I've looked. > > From: Gene Heskett > Sent: May 14, 2020 5:55 PM > To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > Sub

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Chris Morley
Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status Hi Chris, On Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2020, 21:01:50 CEST Chris Morley wrote: > reading and writing HAL is super useful for GUIs. python's HAL module would > be a good source for ideas. it's C++ based. halcmd is C and might be a > little easier to di

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status --> spindle revs display

2020-05-14 Thread N
> ... > I'd be interested if seeing what someone else has done that solved the > spindle revs display problem a different way when there isn't an > encoder. Looking into my configuration file I see gladevcp pins. Used glade, the old version must be used to draw the panels and imported them in

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Reinhard
Hi Chris, On Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2020, 21:01:50 CEST Chris Morley wrote: > reading and writing HAL is super useful for GUIs. python's HAL module would > be a good source for ideas. it's C++ based. halcmd is C and might be a > little easier to digest. My problem is, that I was able to build a

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Chris Morley
-developers] spindle status Hi Chris, On Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2020, 19:22:18 CEST Chris Morley wrote: > There is no 'actual spindle RPM' in a NML message. > You must use HAL for that ... Yes, that's what I was afraid about. Currently I'm not able to use hal in my app. Have to do some research

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Chris Morley
, 2020 5:55 PM To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status On Thursday 14 May 2020 13:22:18 Chris Morley wrote: > There is no 'actual spindle RPM' in a NML message. > You must use HAL for that and in fact it's possible that that is not >

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Reinhard
Hi Chris, On Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2020, 19:22:18 CEST Chris Morley wrote: > There is no 'actual spindle RPM' in a NML message. > You must use HAL for that ... Yes, that's what I was afraid about. Currently I'm not able to use hal in my app. Have to do some research first, to find out, whether

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
lse has done that solved the spindle revs display problem a different way when there isn't an encoder. > Chris > > > From: Reinhard > Sent: May 14, 2020 7:34 AM > To: myd...@gmx.de ; EMC developers > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] > spin

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Chris Morley
Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status Hi Daniel, thanks for the info. On Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2020, 09:28:57 CEST mydani wrote: > if you have an encoder installed, in the encoder you should find a velocity > / velocity-rpm pin with the raw encoder values. > They should be linked to

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 May 2020 04:07:25 Reinhard wrote: > Hi Gene, > > On Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2020, 09:47:01 CEST Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 14 May 2020 03:06:41 Reinhard wrote: > > > P.S.: by the way - what does the css in spindlestatus mean? > > > > Constant Surface Speed, where the rpms are

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Reinhard
Hi Gene, On Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2020, 09:47:01 CEST Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 14 May 2020 03:06:41 Reinhard wrote: > > P.S.: by the way - what does the css in spindlestatus mean? > > Constant Surface Speed, where the rpms are modified upwards as the radius > gets smaller. Oh, thanks a

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 May 2020 03:06:41 Reinhard wrote: > Hi, > > I played with the override controls and wonder, if the override scale > is used at spindle rotation? > The speed value does not change on altering scale value. Is the > current spindle speed available as for feed or rapid feed values? > >

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Reinhard
Hi Daniel, thanks for the info. On Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2020, 09:28:57 CEST mydani wrote: > if you have an encoder installed, in the encoder you should find a velocity > / velocity-rpm pin with the raw encoder values. > They should be linked to spindle.0.speed-in. That will be useful for

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread mydani
Hi Reinhard, if you have an encoder installed, in the encoder you should find a velocity / velocity-rpm pin with the raw encoder values. They should be linked to spindle.0.speed-in. Regards, Daniel Am Do., 14. Mai 2020 um 09:07 Uhr schrieb Reinhard < reinha...@schwarzrot-design.de>: > Hi,

[Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Reinhard
Hi, I played with the override controls and wonder, if the override scale is used at spindle rotation? The speed value does not change on altering scale value. Is the current spindle speed available as for feed or rapid feed values? cheers Reinhard P.S.: by the way - what does the css in