Re: [Emc-users] Off Topic, DC Spindle Motor

2007-11-01 Thread RogerN
I would first look on eBay for DC drives within the 90V 40A range. All the drives I have worked with have current limit adjustment, you could use a 100A drive adjusted to 40% current limit. You may have to get a higher voltage drive and limit the output voltage by with the Max Speed

Re: [Emc-users] Off Topic, DC Spindle Motor

2007-11-01 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 20:15 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: Kirk Wallace wrote: What is the best way to drive a 4hp, 90VDC, 40A spindle motor on a Hardinge CHNC? Some of the large DC motors I have seen, look like universal motors which would operate on AC or DC. Does anyone know if the CHNC

Re: [Emc-users] Off Topic, DC Spindle Motor

2007-11-01 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 21:50 -0500, Ray Henry wrote: I've got several of these motors out in the garage and I don't think any of them would handle AC. The ones I've got are real DC motors with quite a few windings and a massive commutator. There were at least two DC motors used in these,

Re: [Emc-users] Ethernet I/O

2007-11-01 Thread Kenneth . Lerman
Do those ARM processors include floating point? My guess is not. Those 70+ MIPs might not go as far as you think if you have to do floating point in software. I'd rather not go to the alternative of converting everything to fixed point. Ken On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:31:18PM -0600, Jon Elson

Re: [Emc-users] steplen, stepspace, dirsetup, dirhold

2007-11-01 Thread Kirk Wallace
Is this what your looking for? http://linuxcnc.org/docs/EMC2_Integrator_Manual.pdf Integrators Manual / Chapter 14 / Internal Components / 14.1 Stepgen On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 17:53 +, Alan Condit wrote: I read the article in the wiki that SWP pointed out recently. It generated a question.

Re: [Emc-users] steplen, stepspace, dirsetup, dirhold

2007-11-01 Thread Kirk Wallace
Ops. I forgot to mention, I think you do a setp in your HAL configuration file(s) to set these parameters. I haven't actually set these before, so I am guessing. On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 11:17 -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote: Is this what your looking for?

Re: [Emc-users] Avoiding Following Error

2007-11-01 Thread Randolph Wilson
On Thursday 01 November 2007 13:01, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Um, what about the search box at the bottom of every wiki page? One other trick that works just about anywhere, including the wiki - the Google site: command. To use it you simply enter the following into the Google search box:

Re: [Emc-users] Problems Compiling/Running - Update

2007-11-01 Thread Jeff Epler
The following emc2.rules file, which is installed when you install a .deb of emc2 (but not by 'make install), makes the rtai_shm device accessible to all users: ~/emc2-src/debian/extras-Ubuntu-6.06/etc/udev/rules.d$ cat emc2.rules KERNEL==RTAI_SHM SYMLINK==rtai_shm MODE=0666 Jeff

[Emc-users] new kinematics

2007-11-01 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, I am working on a kinematics module. This is an outline of what I want to do. Comments, suggestions, concerns? Here goes. ** Added to the .ini file: - [TRAJ] tool/pivot length - in each [AXIS_*] x axis offset y axis offset z axis

Re: [Emc-users] steplen, stepspace, dirsetup, dirhold

2007-11-01 Thread Alan Condit
Alan Condit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read the article in the wiki that SWP pointed out recently. It generated a question. What file does one find the variables steplen, stepspace, dirsetup and dirhold in? Alan

Re: [Emc-users] Problems Compiling/Running - Update

2007-11-01 Thread Alex Joni
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 12:18 -0700, Andrew Ayre wrote: Another thought - does permissions need to be set on a file somewhere to allow the shared memory to work for all users? I did: ./configure options make make install I didn't run make setuid. Is that still needed for a make install?

Re: [Emc-users] steplen, stepspace, dirsetup, dirhold

2007-11-01 Thread Jeff Epler
These items would be in .hal files. Usually the default values (1 BASE_PERIOD) are OK for most stepper drivers, so they are omitted from the default configuration files. If you add these lines, they would be of the form setp stepgen.0.steplen VALUE where VALUE is the number of BASE_PERIODs

Re: [Emc-users] Avoiding Following Error

2007-11-01 Thread Jon Elson
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Jon Elson wrote: Cecil Thomas wrote: Steve, That's not the one I remember but it looks like it might be even better. I just spent the last 3 hours thinking I was searching the wiki for stuff like this and basically came up with nothing. I guess I don't

Re: [Emc-users] Avoiding Following Error

2007-11-01 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Ray Henry wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 20:07 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Jon Elson wrote: Um, what about the search box at the bottom of every wiki page? (Blush) Exposing my inexperience to the whole world in writing! Isn't the internet

Re: [Emc-users] Problems Compiling/Running - Update

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Ayre
Alex, Sorry, yes, I ran all the commands as root. Constantly typing in sudo annoys me so I enable the root account. Old skool perhaps... Andy Alex Joni wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 12:18 -0700, Andrew Ayre wrote: Another thought - does permissions need to be set on a file somewhere to allow