Re: [Emc-users] ACCEPTED SECONDED NOMINATION: Alex Joni

2007-07-25 Thread Alex Joni
Thanks for the kind words. I accept the nomination, but it's far more important to me to be part of the team than to actually be reelected again. Alex PS: I promise to try to come to the next fest, even if not elected - Original Message - From: Jeff Epler [EMAIL PROTECTED] In

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC C10 Breakout Board

2007-07-25 Thread John Thornton
On 24 Jul 2007 at 12:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on the description of the board, I see no reason why it would not work with emc's hal_parport in I or O mode. It would not work with boards like the Universal Stepper Controller or Pluto Servo Controller which use the parallel port

[Emc-users] SECONDED: Dan Falck

2007-07-25 Thread Ray Henry
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 22:29 -0400, Steve Stallings wrote: Dan will certainly bring to the board a lot of part production, shop floor, part programming, and retrofitting experience. - This SF.net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC C10 Breakout Board

2007-07-25 Thread Ray Henry
Hi John A board like you are looking at will certainly get you started with step and direction. It can also allow you to test HAL things by connecting switches to pins and see them work. Back in the old days we used to cut apart parport cables and wire these in but you can't do that today with

Re: [Emc-users] ACCEPTED SECOND: Sam Sokolik

2007-07-25 Thread Sam Sokolik
Thanks for your kind words. If elected it will be my first step in taking over the world bah ha ha ha.. sorry. Seriously - I will do my best to bring my perspective to emc. I love showing people what emc can do. Its open sourceness is what brought me to it (think free ;) ) and the more I

[Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I've no idea if my input as a hobbyist user is wanted, but from the list of nominees so far, I've been very impressed with their patience with this old fart, and their knowledge, both on the list and on IRC. So the questions I have are, how many 'chairs' are there around this table?

Re: [Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-25 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Hi Gene At the moment, there are 5 board members: Jon Elson Ray Henry Alex Joni John Kasunich Chris Radek (Chairperson) I suspect there will be 5 after the election as well :) - Steve Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I've no idea if my input as a hobbyist user is wanted, but from the list of

Re: [Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-25 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:07:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I've no idea if my input as a hobbyist user is wanted, but from the list of nominees so far, I've been very impressed with their patience with this old fart, and their knowledge, both on the list and on IRC. Everyone

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Spindle Speed Control?

2007-07-25 Thread Sam Sokolik
If it where me... I would put those limits into the vfd (spindle accel/decel) unless your going to try to close the spindle speed loop within emc. sam - Original Message - From: RogerN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:09 PM

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Spindle Speed Control?

2007-07-25 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
RogerN wrote: I have my VFD forward and reverse connected to the M5i20 through the 7i37 board, M3 M4 works as they should. Now I need to connect the spindle speed control. The basic idea is to get the spindle speed command to the M5i20 dac 3. Since I have different gears, I would like to

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Spindle Speed Control?

2007-07-25 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 14:38 -0400, John Kasunich wrote: RogerN wrote: For the 850 RPM gear range, I need 2-3 second decel, for the 2800 RPM, I need around 8 second decel. I could use a drive input to select between motor 1 and motor 2 and have different decel times for the motors.

[Emc-users] Jog Wheel Information

2007-07-25 Thread Kirk Wallace
A while back, there was allot of good information floating around concerning jog wheels. Now that I _actually_ want to install one, the information doesn't seem to be handy. I wonder if it would be appropriate to have a short information, vendor and resource list on the Links, Hardware page, or

Re: [Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Hi Gene At the moment, there are 5 board members: Jon Elson Ray Henry Alex Joni John Kasunich Chris Radek (Chairperson) I suspect there will be 5 after the election

Re: [Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-25 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Hi Gene At the moment, there are 5 board members: Jon Elson Ray Henry Alex Joni John Kasunich Chris Radek (Chairperson) I suspect there will be 5 after the election as well :) - Steve No doubt. But that does

Re: [Emc-users] error in lauching halmeter and halscope ( RTAPI error)

2007-07-25 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:30:41AM +0800, Xuecheng Xi wrote: Dear Alex: I have tried your suggestion. But after compiling (--enable-run-in-place) emc2.1.6, in the directory emc2/bin/ there is no executable file halscope or halmeter after I copied the old version halscope and halmeter

Re: [Emc-users] error in lauching halmeter and halscope ( RTAPI error)

2007-07-25 Thread John Kasunich
Xuecheng Xi wrote: Dear Alex: I have tried your suggestion. But after compiling (--enable-run-in-place) emc2.1.6, in the directory emc2/bin/ there is no executable file halscope or halmeter after I copied the old version halscope and halmeter into the directory emc2/bin I can launch

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Spindle Speed Control?

2007-07-25 Thread John Kasunich
RogerN wrote: I probably don't need closed loop spindle speed control, I just thought since I have the encoder, and two unused axis available, why not! After spending some time reading the hal documentation tonight I got an idea that might work. What if I used HAL's integrator with

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Spindle Speed Control?

2007-07-25 Thread RogerN
- Original Message - From: John Kasunich [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Are you sure you really need to close the speed loop? Or would it be sufficient to simply send the appropriate command to the VFD? Appropriate means that it has been corrected for the gear ratio for whatever gear you

[Emc-users] Screen Saver

2007-07-25 Thread Jerry Jankura
Hi, Folks: How do you turn the screen saver off when running EMC? -- -- Jerry Jankura So many toys So little time - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find

Re: [Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Chris Radek wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:07:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I've no idea if my input as a hobbyist user is wanted, but from the list of nominees so far, I've been very impressed with their patience with this old fart, and their

Re: [Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Hi Gene At the moment, there are 5 board members: Jon Elson Ray Henry Alex Joni John Kasunich Chris Radek (Chairperson) I suspect there will be 5 after the election as well :) - Steve No doubt. But that does seem to be a pretty small

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Spindle Speed Control?

2007-07-25 Thread John Kasunich
RogerN wrote: For the 850 RPM gear range, I need 2-3 second decel, for the 2800 RPM, I need around 8 second decel. I could use a drive input to select between motor 1 and motor 2 and have different decel times for the motors. Thanks Roger Neal Are you sure you really need to close the

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 v2.1 users handbook

2007-07-25 Thread Dennis Coleman
Thanks Dennis _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Sokolik Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:03 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] emc2 v2.1 users handbook what you are downloading is the emc2 live cd image. You

[Emc-users] emc2 v2.1 users handbook

2007-07-25 Thread Dennis Coleman
I think I need to begin in the beginning. I have downloaded the user's handbook twice. When I try to open the download from my desktop I get this message. Adobe reader could not open 'emc2-unbutu6.06-desktop-i386.iso' because it is either not a supported file type or because the

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 v2.1 users handbook

2007-07-25 Thread Sam Sokolik
what you are downloading is the emc2 live cd image. You would use your cd burning software to create a bootable live cd that can be used to evaluate or install emc. (you can access the docs also. Otherwide the docs are always here http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/ sam - Original Message

[Emc-users] Lathe Spindle Speed Control?

2007-07-25 Thread RogerN
I have my VFD forward and reverse connected to the M5i20 through the 7i37 board, M3 M4 works as they should. Now I need to connect the spindle speed control. The basic idea is to get the spindle speed command to the M5i20 dac 3. Since I have different gears, I would like to use my spindle

[Emc-users] SECONDED: Dan Falck - I accept

2007-07-25 Thread Dan Falck
If elected, I would gladly serve on the emc board. Arm twisting is definitely not needed here : ) Thanks, Dan - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 v2.1 users handbook

2007-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Dennis Coleman wrote: I think I need to begin in the beginning. I have downloaded the user's handbook twice. When I try to open the download from my desktop I get this message. Adobe reader could not open 'emc2-unbutu6.06-desktop-i386.iso' because it is

[Emc-users] error in lauching halmeter and halscope ( RTAPI error)

2007-07-25 Thread Xuecheng Xi
Dear Alex: I have tried your suggestion. But after compiling (--enable-run-in-place) emc2.1.6, in the directory emc2/bin/ there is no executable file halscope or halmeter after I copied the old version halscope and halmeter into the directory emc2/bin I can launch them. I don't know where is