Sorry for the late reply - this is of interest to me, I would like to run
Linux (Ubuntu or whatever) on my Mac, running it through a parallel port
card
Have fun
-Stephan
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 7:28 PM, paul_c [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi Jason
On Monday 11 February 2008 07:45, Jason Cox
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:43:43PM -0700, Carl Helquist wrote:
Is there any way to put an axis back to the pre-homed state? Either
that or a soft limit override?
In EMC 2.3, you will be able to unhome an axis or all axes.
You would think that a jog override for soft limits would be nice. But then
that
encourages sloppy setup and could cause serious damage on a larger machine...
John
On 1 May 2008 at 22:43, Carl Helquist wrote:
Somewhat related to the overriding limits topic, but I think different
enough to
Carl, I put a Rapid to Home button on my pyVCP panel. It is documented here
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Adding_Custom_MDI_Buttons
On 1 May 2008 at 22:05, Carl Helquist wrote:
I just recently started using soft limits, maybe someone will find the
following observations
I believe that the way is *should* work is that overriding limits should
override both hard and soft limits. Compared to overriding hard limits,
overriding soft limits is harmless. For additional protection though,
overriding limits should allow jogging only *away* from the limit that has
been
I started a step and direction timing page on the wiki site. If anyone can add
to it
that would be great. I use the same format as the stepconf setup page so
newbee's
won't get confused nor will I...
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Stepper_Drive_Timing
John
Aaron
I use the MSD542 drivers with EMC2 with no problems, (but I don't have
access to my ini file at the moment). The data sheet from
www.motioncontrolproducts.com is a bit terse. I used the data sheet from
http://www.kelinginc.net/KL-5042.pdf, as I think these are identical
drives.
Missing
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 10:12:48AM -0400, Kenneth Lerman wrote:
I (now) understand the other side of the soft limit issue. I'd suggest
though, that soft limits is the wrong way to save the table on the milling
machine.
Yes I agree.
I might rename soft limit to safety limit. You should
Carl Helquist wrote:
I just recently started using soft limits, maybe someone will find the
following observations relevant to this topic:
You've really hit the nail on the head...
I am using emc2 on a Sherline with steppers, mm screws, and no limit
or home switches. I used to always set
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 08:12:14AM -0400, Kenneth Lerman wrote:
For additional protection though,
overriding limits should allow jogging only *away* from the limit that has
been hit.
This is currently how override limits (for jogging off a limit
switch) works, when the right and left limit
snip
On May 1, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Carl Helquist wrote:
Somewhat related to the overriding limits topic, but I think different
enough to start a new topic:
I am using soft limits on my machine. If I accidently click on home
instead of touch-off (the buttons are right next to each other) at
Dave Engvall wrote:
The problem starts
with the placement of the home
button next to jog which means it is easy to have the mouse wander
when one is jogging while watching an
edge finder. Ask me how I know. ;-)
I guess there are two schools regarding homing. Those who home to the
John Thornton wrote:
I started a step and direction timing page on the wiki site. If anyone can
add to it
that would be great. I use the same format as the stepconf setup page so
newbee's
won't get confused nor will I...
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Stepper_Drive_Timing
On Thursday 01 November 2007, Kirk Wallace wrote:
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
I have a Rivett lathe that uses a motor generator to supply the DC for the
motor. That's a PITA. I have a rotary converter to generate the three phase
to drive the motor generator to create the DC for the motor.
When I was in the motor shop getting the commutator on the motor reworked, I
spoke
Opening a can of worms here, but I like confirmation boxes
to pop up for functions like EXIT, HOME, and UNHOME.
Steve Stallings
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Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 01 November 2007, Kirk Wallace 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
H! Not a bad idea. :-)
Oh, duh, why didn't I think of that.
Dave
On May 2, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Steve Stallings wrote:
Opening a can of worms here, but I like confirmation boxes
to pop up for functions like EXIT, HOME, and UNHOME.
Steve Stallings
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From: [EMAIL
Hi,
I stuck 3 PCI parallel port cards into my pc. Without any work at all
I could print from two of them. Very neat and I am assuming because they
will print I can attach those for extra I/O.
But the 3rd card was not a parallel port, as you only get three total,
(one on board and two
Daniel Kavanagh wrote:
Hi,
I stuck 3 PCI parallel port cards into my pc. Without any work at all
I could print from two of them. Very neat and I am assuming because they
will print I can attach those for extra I/O.
But the 3rd card was not a parallel port, as you only get three
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 14:41 -0400, Daniel Kavanagh wrote:
Hi,
I stuck 3 PCI parallel port cards into my pc. Without any work at all
I could print from two of them. Very neat and I am assuming because they
will print I can attach those for extra I/O.
But the 3rd card was not a
Robert,
I remember reading somewhere that you could have homing switches and
travel beyond the homing switch. But even better would be to change
the limit switches such that you do not loose 3 inches.
Or just create a second machine configuration with manual homing. I've
still not
Stephan,
I am just working on the RTAI kernel at the moment under Ubuntu 8.04.
Unfortunatly the last patch was on a 2.6.20 kernel and so I have to work
out a patch for 2.6.24.
My plan is to setup 2.6.24with a rtai kernel for a x86 and then port
the powerpc rtai kernel patches in over the
On Saturday 03 May 2008 00:43, John Kasunich wrote:
John Thornton wrote:
I started a step and direction timing page on the wiki site. If anyone
can add to it that would be great. I use the same format as the stepconf
setup page so newbee's won't get confused nor will I...
John,
I have run 3 of these on a mill without any major issues.the only
problem I have found is that some of the revixsion of the controller pcb
used opto isolators witha limiting resitor in series with led in the
opto. this tends to cut down the highest speed you can run at. my fix on
Hi Jason,
I don't think you want that.. at some point (but details elude me) there
has been some majour restructuring in the ppc/powerpc tree.
I think you will find it easiest to just start with the stuff RTAI has
support for.
If you want to give x86 on Hardy a spin, join the devel list.
Anything you can add will help others speed past this part of installing and
running
EMC.
John
On 3 May 2008 at 8:23, Jason Cox wrote:
John,
I have run 3 of these on a mill without any major issues.the only
problem I have found is that some of the revixsion of the controller
pcb used
Alex,
there already
Jason
On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 02:04 +0300, Alex Joni wrote:
Hi Jason,
I don't think you want that.. at some point (but details elude me) there
has been some majour restructuring in the ppc/powerpc tree.
I think you will find it easiest to just start with the stuff
So I have installed the PCI-DIO-96 board in the computer.Ubuntu picked
it up in the Device manager and called it by name.How do I go about
loading the pci_8255 hal driver, What file do I modify in the config
directory, How do I know if EMC2 sees the board and its I/O points?
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 21:36 -0400, Dave Keeton wrote:
So I have installed the PCI-DIO-96 board in the computer.Ubuntu picked
it up in the Device manager and called it by name.How do I go about
loading the pci_8255 hal driver, What file do I modify in the config
directory, How do I
The so-called pci_8255 driver in emc is *only* for the futurlec card
with 3 8255 chips and a tiger-320 PCI bridge. It will not work without
modification on any other type of card. (and according to user reports,
not even that card works when any of the ports are set to input mode)
Jeff
I just took a quick look but this may help.
http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/374938a.pdf
Dave
On May 2, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Dave Keeton wrote:
So I have installed the PCI-DIO-96 board in the computer.Ubuntu
picked
it up in the Device manager and called it by name.How do I go
about
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