Re: [Emc-users] Plasma Torch Height Control

2007-10-05 Thread John Thornton
Jarl, Thanks for the info. Am I correct in assuming that from the hardware end using your plasma-thc that I only need to supply a raise or lower to EMC to make it work? My current thoughts are to use a voltage divider from the plasma voltage out pins to reduce the voltage to a 0 to 10vdc range

Re: [Emc-users] Oh man, my home is broke...

2007-10-05 Thread Jon Elson
Patrick Ferrick wrote: Hi all, Well, I've gone and added a rotary axis to my xyz-minimill, and I've managed to break my nice homing sequence. As it turns out, I guess I don't understand homing as well as I thought I did, because I can't figure out the following situation: Yes, it has

Re: [Emc-users] Oh man, my home is broke...

2007-10-05 Thread Andre' Blanchard
Which coordinate system do you have the Axis display set to, machine or the work offsets? Sounds like it is displaying relative to the work offset (G54) and you have a +3 inch offset of the Y axis. __ Andre' B. Clear Lake, Wi.

[Emc-users] Max Speed

2007-10-05 Thread John Thornton
I have a CNC4PC C1G parallel port interface card driving a Gecko 203v. I have a 28vdc power supply and I am running the stepper without any load just to get my configs setup... The highest velocity I can get is about 70 as reported on the Axis screen no matter what I set F at. If I do a MDI G1

Re: [Emc-users] Max Speed

2007-10-05 Thread Sam Sokolik
in your axis section - it seems your missing MAX_VELOCITY = 6.7 (you want some stepgen headroom.) sam - Original Message - From: John Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 11:47 AM Subject: [Emc-users] Max Speed I have a

[Emc-users] stepper motors?

2007-10-05 Thread Alfred Smart
I have 1980 vintage wells index knee mill, I have retro to emc2 from bandit using gecko's microstep 10x using original power supply 45vdc and 2 original motors and one that is newer but came with the machine. 2 sigma instruments and one rapidsyn dana, all are nema 42 The sigma's have no spec's

Re: [Emc-users] Mach development (was Re: Desktop CNC Website Information)

2007-10-05 Thread Jon Elson
Moses McKnight wrote: Jon Elson wrote: Peter Homann wrote: Hi Jon, You may want to ask Art to have another look. These days there are plug-ins that are written that talk to various type of hardware. You would probably have to write the plug-in yourself with Arts help. I talked to him at

Re: [Emc-users] stepper motors?

2007-10-05 Thread John Kasunich
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Alfred Smart wrote: The gecko's are running wide open 7 amps, unipoler motors wired half winding. Are you sure those are unipolar motors? The geckos are bipolar drives, and I don't see how they could work with unipolar motors. Five wire unipolar motors