Re: [Emc-developers] parallel port problem

2016-03-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 30 March 2016 23:12:54 Jon Elson wrote: > Hello, > > I have a customer who bought one of my Universal Stepper > Controllers, that uses the EPP mode on the parallel port for > communication. He is not getting any response from the > board. I've gone through the usual tests with him,

[Emc-developers] Proposal: rename "gentrivkins" to "trivkins" in JA

2016-03-31 Thread andy pugh
By default gentrivkins and trivkins are identical (or, if not then they could be). If the components are merged then all existing configs using trivkins continue to work, but slaving of axes becomes a trivial change, and enabling Joint-mode is just a modparam away. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicy

Re: [Emc-developers] Proposal: rename "gentrivkins" to "trivkins" in JA

2016-03-31 Thread Dewey Garrett
Not sure i want to take it on. Here is a partial list of files to patch and test: ./docs/man/man9/kins.9 ./docs/man/man1/moveoff_gui.1 ./docs/src/getting-started/updating-linuxcnc.txt ./docs/src/motion/kinematics.txt ./docs/src/config/moveoff.txt ./docs/src/config/ini-config.txt ./configs/sim/tkl

Re: [Emc-developers] parallel port problem

2016-03-31 Thread Bob Slawson
> On Mar 30, 2016, at 23:12, Jon Elson wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a customer who bought one of my Universal Stepper > Controllers, that uses the EPP mode on the parallel port for > communication. He is not getting any response from the > board. My experience with an add-in EPP port card

Re: [Emc-developers] Proposal: rename "gentrivkins" to "trivkins" in JA

2016-03-31 Thread andy pugh
On 31 March 2016 at 13:43, Dewey Garrett wrote: > Not sure i want to take it on. Here is a partial > list of files to patch and test: I think that the list would shrink: As an example- > ./configs/sim/axis/ja_tests/xyzb_locking_indexer/xyzb_gentrivkins.ini > ./configs/sim/axis/ja_tests/xyzb_loc

Re: [Emc-developers] parallel port problem

2016-03-31 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/31/2016 08:13 AM, Bob Slawson wrote: > My experience with an add-in EPP port card was that its > output drive voltage was too low to trigger the motor > controller it was connected to. No, my boards are NOT a simple breakout board, they use the parallel port as a communications channel to

Re: [Emc-developers] Properly dealing with spindle faults

2016-03-31 Thread Neil Whelchel
Update: I setup my machine to assert motion.feed-inhibit when the spindle falls below the target RPM. This saved a tool immediately. Within minutes of starting the test, there was a power surge that caused the spindle controller to go off-line and the machine stopped feed, saving the tool. There is

Re: [Emc-developers] Properly dealing with spindle faults

2016-03-31 Thread Chris Morley
> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:15:29 -0700 > From: neilwhelc...@gmail.com > To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Properly dealing with spindle faults > > Update: > I setup my machine to assert motion.feed-inhibit when the spindle falls > below the target RPM. Thi

Re: [Emc-developers] Properly dealing with spindle faults

2016-03-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 31 March 2016 22:15:29 Neil Whelchel wrote: > Update: > I setup my machine to assert motion.feed-inhibit when the spindle > falls below the target RPM. This saved a tool immediately. Within > minutes of starting the test, there was a power surge that caused the > spindle controller to