Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-10 Thread rng3
Quite the list of improvements, great job, emc just keeps getting better and better! Thanks to all involved for their hard work. Rick G -- ___ Emc-users mailing list

Re: [Emc-users] Starting spindle with F9 with spindle speed DAC

2010-05-10 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Jon, Does your VFD have provision for an external braking resistor? Might that help with the over heating? Ken On 5/9/2010 6:36 PM, Jon Elson wrote: Hello, all, I just added a DAC for spindle speed control to my Bridgeport. For years, I just had forward and reverse contact closures to the

Re: [Emc-users] Starting spindle with F9 with spindle speed DAC

2010-05-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 09 May 2010, Jon Elson wrote: Hello, all, I just added a DAC for spindle speed control to my Bridgeport. For years, I just had forward and reverse contact closures to the VFD and a manual speed pot. Now, I have a DAC channel from EMC to the VFD. I can start the spindle with an MDI

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-10 Thread Neil Baylis
I ran into an error after the upgrade. My system is the EMC2 Hardy live CD install, and I'm using the config files from pico systems website for the universal PWM controller. The files are at: http://pico-systems.com/codes/univpwm/ The only change I made was to edit the ini file and remove the

Re: [Emc-users] Starting spindle with F9 with spindle speed DAC

2010-05-10 Thread Jon Elson
Kenneth Lerman wrote: Jon, Does your VFD have provision for an external braking resistor? Might that help with the over heating? Turns out the VFD was NOT overheating. I finally got suspicious as it was staying so cool with the fan on it and read several sections of the manual. The

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-10 Thread Jeff Epler
Some corrections and additional information: If you used the buildbot experimental packages as a way to preview emc 2.4, you probably want to disable the emc2-buildbot.colorado.edu package repository when you enable the official 2.4 repository. If you don't, you will get more frequent and less

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-10 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:30:03AM -0700, Neil Baylis wrote: I ran into an error after the upgrade. My system is the EMC2 Hardy live CD install, and I'm using the config files from pico systems website for the universal PWM controller. The files are at:

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-10 Thread Neil Baylis
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Jeff Epler jep...@unpythonic.net wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:30:03AM -0700, Neil Baylis wrote: I ran into an error after the upgrade. My system is the EMC2 Hardy live CD install, and I'm using the config files from pico systems website for the

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-10 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:19:15AM -0700, Neil Baylis wrote: that didn't seem to change anything. It still reports the same error about mode 4. I double checked that the change to the modprobe file was correct, and just for superstition I rebooted as well. In this case the reboot is necessary.

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-10 Thread Neil Baylis
OK, I'm confused, but it works now. I checked the file, and it was correct as you specifed. After booting, but before running emc, lsmod indicated that parport_pc was not loaded but parport was loaded, and that modules lp and ppdev depended on it. I checked, and the problem still happened.

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-10 Thread Jeff Epler
OK -- I'm glad it's running for you now. I'm not sure how to fix this problem. I *think* that I will make it not a fatal error to have Linux not detect an EPP port (but still be logged in the kernel messages). Every driver that uses EPP requires successful communication with the board at load

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-10 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Sun, 9 May 2010 14:01:13 -0500, you wrote: I'm pleased to announce the first stable release of the 2.4 series, emc 2.4.0. This version has many new features compared to 2.3.5. * axis: shift+jog for XYZ gives a jog at the traverse speed. A great improvement, thanks. I seem to have problem

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-10 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:03:18PM +0100, Steve Blackmore wrote: It displays front and back angles in lathe tool table editor oddly. Params I95.0 J155.0 Display as Front Back 1e+02 2e+02 Thanks for noting this. Dewey Garrett has contributed a patch to fix this. A

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-10 Thread Jon Elson
Jeff Epler wrote: OK -- I'm glad it's running for you now. I'm not sure how to fix this problem. I *think* that I will make it not a fatal error to have Linux not detect an EPP port (but still be logged in the kernel messages). Every driver that uses EPP requires successful communication

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-10 Thread Jon Elson
Neil Baylis wrote: I rebooted again (this is the third time since I did the upgrade to 2.4) and checked lsmod. Still the same: no parport_pc, but parport is loaded with dependencies lp and ppdev. I tried emc again, and now it works. While emc is running, lsmod indicates the following: I

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-10 Thread Neil Baylis
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: Neil Baylis wrote: I rebooted again (this is the third time since I did the upgrade to 2.4) and checked lsmod. Still the same: no parport_pc, but parport is loaded with dependencies lp and ppdev. I tried emc again,

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 Question

2010-05-10 Thread Donnie Timmons
Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@... writes: To simplify a bit, the way the config files work is that the HAL file *does* tell emc2 what the configuration is, and the HAL file *may* use values from the INI file when specifying the configuration. (This is a simplification; there are some