[Emc-users] Stg 1 homing

Hi all, Finally found a 'roundtoit'. As a quick test of homing repeatability I mounted a piece of 6061- T6 in the vise, wrote a small program to move from homing position to the workpiece and then drill a 1/2" hole using a 0.500 carbide endmill. Hole 1 was drilled repeatably after a shut d

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Port Breakout Board

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 19:23 -0600, John Harris wrote: ... snip > My EMC2 box only has two slots and they are both used, so no room for a PCI > port card. I will take your tip and add a second port on the new card with > provision for splitting up the tasks between the two ports. Maybe a box with

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2

Terry wrote: > Is the hostmot2 replacing the hostmot4 in the next > release?Or is it only for the 7 series of boards? > I am building another mill with a 5i20/22 board, > and I see alot of questions about the hm2.Is it > running good now? The quick answers are: No, No, and Yes. I believe HostMot

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 & 2.2.6, Hostmot2 (Ted)

> > If I have the EPP mode set to 1.7, I can load SV8B.BIT into the board, add > read and write components to the threads, and start the RT Kernel now. Looking at the EPP interface in the FPGA and the CPLD, the CPLD (loader) should work with EPP V1.7 or EPP V1.9 but the FPGA code will definately

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 & 2.2.6, Hostmot2 (Ted)

Ted Hyde wrote: > .ignore the sentence caps (thanks, Outlook!) - it also does not appear > to make a difference if I include probe_parport, which I saw in another > halfile (Anders, perhaps?) Forcing non-wide EPP communications also does not > appear to have a (functional) effect. probe_parpo

[Emc-users] Hostmot2

Is the hostmot2 replacing the hostmot4 in the next release?Or is it only for the 7 series of boards? I am building another mill with a 5i20/22 board, and I see alot of questions about the hm2.Is it running good now? Thanks Terry Msg sent via CableONE.net MyMail - http://www.cableone.net

Re: [Emc-users] hm2_7i43 hostmot2 loading - invalid cookie?

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:49:18 -0400 > From: Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] hm2_7i43 hostmot2 loading - invalid c

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Port Breakout Board

Hi Kirk, I plan to Home on Index ANDed with Left Limit, so if I wire the two Left switchs in series and the two Right switches in series, then only Home one axis at a time, there should be no confusion. Also I will then have an input for Stop and a spare My EMC2 box only has two slo

[Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 & 2.2.6, Hostmot2 (Ted)

>John Kasunich wrote: >> I noticed that Seb didn't mention anything about creating a realtime >> thread, adding the appropriate driver functions to it, and starting >> realtime execution. We tend to take those steps for granted, but they >> are important. >Ted said this, which i took to mean he'd

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 & 2.2.6, Hostmot2 (Ted) - SUCCESS!

Ted Hyde wrote: > That, coupled with the phase of the moon and a new bag of tea leaves, has > GPIO, encoders and PWM functioning. > Time to go turn the servo shafts and watch the numbers move! Woo Hoo! Yay! I love a happy ending! :-) -- Sebastian Kuzminsky Distances obtained as the speed of

Re: [Emc-users] Calibration of Sherline Mill under CNC

I was able to get an education on what a Python Script file is and does. I saved it along With the fonts to my NU_files directory. Made the [FILTER] addition to my stepconfig.ini file I open AXIS and then from the file menu try to open engrave-11.py. "Nuttin Honey" What is the chmod ugo+x before

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 & 2.2.6, Hostmot2 (Ted)

John Kasunich wrote: > I noticed that Seb didn't mention anything about creating a realtime > thread, adding the appropriate driver functions to it, and starting > realtime execution. We tend to take those steps for granted, but they > are important. Ted said this, which i took to mean he'd taken

[Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 & 2.2.6, Hostmot2 (Ted) - SUCCESS!

>>Ted Hyde wrote: >> 7i43 (400K Spartan3) board is USB powered now (Sebastian's suggestion, >> though no difference from external port was found) - and is set for EPP >> firmware load/config. >I suggest starting with GPIO instead of the encoders, just to verify the >7i43 and HAL functioning befor

[Emc-users] broken puma robot simulation link

Hi all, I've been hacking on the puma robot modules and kinda got a stepper step and direction version of the puma config going. But in converting the hal file to stepper control I broke the link to the robot simulation and the joint rotation dial indicators. I can't figure out how to re-enable

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 & 2.2.6, Hostmot2 (Ted)

Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > I suggest starting with GPIO instead of the encoders, just to verify the > 7i43 and HAL functioning before adding more hardware to the mix. > > If you have a 50-pin break-out board like > or >

Re: [Emc-users] hm2_7i43 hostmot2 loading - invalid cookie?

Peter C. Wallace wrote: > Can you verify that your parallel port supports and is configured for EPP > version 1.9 (1.7 will _not_ work) > > After a little thinking, your symptoms (parallel port firmware load works but > communication with FPGA fails) suggests the possibiolity that your EPP port

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Port Breakout Board

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 14:48 -0400, Greg Michalski wrote: > > So there is no default usage for each of the 12 outputs and 4 inputs? Correct. HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) lets you "connect" EMC signals or "pins" to real pins as needed. > > I'm thinking about a 3-axis small mill with limit swit

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 & 2.2.6, Hostmot2 (Ted)

Ted Hyde wrote: > Heron EMC2 Live CD built on an Epia M 1 board, w current 1.16 BIOS. EPP > set to ver1.9 > > Re-compiled EMC2-trunk per web instructions, sim and stepper-mm configs > still work fine through unaided parallel port. > > 7i43 (400K Spartan3) board is USB powered now (Sebastian's

[Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 & 2.2.6, Hostmot2 (Ted)

>On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:53:50AM +0200, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >> You dont need to set siggen.0.update.tmax, it gets set by the siggen >> driver to communicate to the user how much time it's taking to run. >> Setting it has no effect. >Just guessing, but I suspect that line is there 'halcm

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Port Breakout Board

So there is no default usage for each of the 12 outputs and 4 inputs? I'm thinking about a 3-axis small mill with limit switches on the two X and Y axis plus spindle on/off and two coolants. Outputs 3 Step and 3 Direction = 6 1 Common Enable, 2 Coolant and 1 Spindle = 4 Total 10 outputs Inputs

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Port Breakout Board

Hi Kirk, So there is no default usage for each of the 12 outputs and 4 inputs? I'm thinking about a 3-axis small mill with limit switches on the two X and Y axis plus spindle on/off and two coolants. Outputs 3 Step and 3 Direction = 6 1 Common Enable, 2 Coolant and 1 Spindle = 4

Re: [Emc-users] Parrallel Port Breakout Board

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 10:14 -0600, John Harris wrote: > Hi, > Does EMC2 still support the use of a single Parallel Port? If > so where can I find documentation on the functions handled by a single > port system and how this is done? > Thanks > ___

Re: [Emc-users] Parrallel Port Breakout Board

Just for info, I made a breakout board using 10k ohm resistors and terminals. I used it to hook up an MPG encoder to the parallel port with selector switches for axis selection and increment. I built it for testing but plan to implement it for a control refit. Dave On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 11:59 -0

Re: [Emc-users] Parrallel Port Breakout Board

yes The documentation for the parallal port is in the Integrators manual... http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//hal_drivers.html#sec:Parport If that is what your asking... John On 19 Oct 2008 at 10:14, John Harris wrote: > > Hi, > Does EMC2 still support the use of a single Parallel Po

Re: [Emc-users] Calibration of Sherline Mill under CNC

John, As it so happens, I tested this today: - Save the file in your home directory - Set as executable: chmod ugo+x ENGRAVE-11.py - Run: ~/ENGRAVE-11.py Geert John Domville wrote: > Like I emailed John Thornton: > > > > Good. Next dumb question. I tried to down load the engraving software

[Emc-users] Parrallel Port Breakout Board

Hi, Does EMC2 still support the use of a single Parallel Port? If so where can I find documentation on the functions handled by a single port system and how this is done? Thanks John Harris E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [Emc-users] stg model 1 card: could somebody confirm that homing on the index pulse works ?

Hi, It is probably working correctly but I need to get out the dial indicator and confirm. To answer your question; it may home coming off the switch rather than on index. Just an impression. Maybe I'm just flaky. ;-) No comments from the peanut gallery ... Dave On Oct 19, 2008, at 3:14 AM,

Re: [Emc-users] Is this computer suitable?

On Sunday 19 October 2008 16:21:09 Jeff Epler wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:12:58PM +0100, Alan Battersby wrote: > > I was looking for a new computer to run emc this weekend. At a local > > shop I was told about a new ACER machine with a very small footprint and > > it sounded ideal. Howeve

Re: [Emc-users] synchronizing two servo motors on the same axis

Yes. Using HAL, you can connect the same commanded position (e.g., axis.0.motor-pos-cmd) to any number of things, something like net Xpos-cmd axis.0.motor-pos-cmd => stepgen.0.position-cmd stepgen.4.position-cmd You can only connect one feedback position, though: net Xpos-fbd stepgen.0.p

Re: [Emc-users] Is this computer suitable?

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:12:58PM +0100, Alan Battersby wrote: > I was looking for a new computer to run emc this weekend. At a local > shop I was told about a new ACER machine with a very small footprint and > it sounded ideal. However after checking I found out that this model > does not have

Re: [Emc-users] keling kit compatibility with EMC, question on stepconf

On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 15:29 -0700, haw-jyh liaw wrote: > Hi all, > > Short version: > == > > does anyone know how to change EMC 2.2.6 to generate a longer "step" > pulse on parallel port? > I have tried changing both step time and step space, but they don't > affect the pulse wi

Re: [Emc-users] synchronizing two servo motors on the same axis

On Sunday 19 October 2008 13:44:59 Sasa Vilic wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to have to to-> two? > servo motors on the same axis (controlled by > EMC), so they work together and move this joint together. I think that's only a matter of your stepper driver. EMC doesn't need to know how many

[Emc-users] synchronizing two servo motors on the same axis

Hi, is it possible to have to servo motors on the same axis (controlled by EMC), so they work together and move this joint together. Thanks Sasa - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge

[Emc-users] Is this computer suitable?

I was looking for a new computer to run emc this weekend. At a local shop I was told about a new ACER machine with a very small footprint and it sounded ideal. However after checking I found out that this model does not have a parallel port only usb ports. Looking back through the postings I sa

Re: [Emc-users] Can't start EMC rtai

Hi frank glad you fixed it, its also the same if your BIOS has SATA AHCI mode need to make sure ahci mode is off, found that one out the hard way ;) as it will work in a standard kernel, where a RT kernel has no support for AHCI rob Frank Tkalcevic wrote: > Ok, I've solved it. In my BIOS I ha

Re: [Emc-users] stg model 1 card: could somebody confirm that homing on the index pulse works ?

Hey Dave, thanks for your reply. I modified the stg driver early this week and then tested it in a lab setup with a rotary encoder - but i won't be able to test it on a live machine before Friday next week. There is a little bug that i found and fixed regarding autodetection - it won't work if yo

Re: [Emc-users] Can't start EMC rtai

Ok, I've solved it. In my BIOS I have an option... Enhanced Mode Support On: I had it set to "P-ATA+S-ATA". I changed it to S-ATA. It worked. I don't know why it worked for 8.04 regular kernel and not rtai. I have 2 sata hard drives, and an IDE DVD. > I've been trying to install EMC2 on Ubu

[Emc-users] Can't start EMC rtai

I've been trying to install EMC2 on Ubuntu 8.04. I installed 8.04 without any problems. I ran update and all the updates installed. I then ran the emc sh install. It appeared to install fine. When I rebooted and selected the rtai kernel, I get a prompt... (initramfs) and the following messag