Re: [Emc-users] nc code exceeds negative limit

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Wendt
On 05/26/2010 12:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Mark Wendt wrote: Or just pave it over and paint it green! ;-) Mark Have you priced concrete recently? That will rain on our parade. There's always crushed stone painted green... Mark

Re: [Emc-users] nc code exceeds negative limit

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Wendt
On 05/26/2010 12:42 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Chuckle, unfortunately, the src of that fertilizer died at 10 years old about 4 years ago. An AKC Shelty, Heskett's Red Blaze Sunset, Blaze for short, thought he was people I think. In this house there was no discussion about who was the Alpha

Re: [Emc-users] Using emcconfig

2010-05-27 Thread Andy Pugh
On 27 May 2010 00:47, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: I believe older versions of EMC2 needed to have extra axes installed if you wanted a non-standard set of axes. I was working with 2.3.3, which I suppose is still fairly new in the scheme of things. On the basis that if I

Re: [Emc-users] Howto files for EMC.

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Wendt
On 05/26/2010 01:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Yup, a nearly $400 Cub Cadet. But OSHA or somebody has gotten into the lawn mower design business in the name of safety, and mandated that the skirt around the blade be made deep enough to protect the errant toe that may get under it. Unforch,

Re: [Emc-users] Howto files for EMC.

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Wendt
Gee, I wonder who that could be... ;-) Mark On 05/26/2010 04:07 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gene, Do you have a design in mind? I know a man with a machine shop. :) Stuart On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Gene Heskettgene.hesk...@gmail.comwrote: Yup, a nearly $400 Cub Cadet. But OSHA

Re: [Emc-users] Help[EMC-users] how pluto board works in EMC2

2010-05-27 Thread Andy Pugh
On 27 May 2010 05:38, sakthivel M sakthi...@fedlabs.in wrote: .Also i am using this pluto board in Linux EMC2 application EMC has two drivers for the Pluto board, for servo and step systems. See http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//man/man9/pluto_step.9.html

Re: [Emc-users] Howto files for EMC.

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Wendt
On 05/26/2010 05:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Yup, gimme a 2 stroke, and if its built good, I'll give you something in the 2hp/ci for giddyup. I figure my last go cart, with its 13.5 cid deflector head water cooled engine, was making a good 25hp, cuz 100 mph was not a dream if the sprocket was

Re: [Emc-users] Howto files for EMC.

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Wendt
On 05/27/2010 12:24 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: heh - no no - I was talking about an adapter to remount his mower blade :) Well, hells bells, it's just a short jump from a mower blade adapter to a replacement hip joint as far as the software is concerned! ;-) Mark

Re: [Emc-users] Howto files for EMC.

2010-05-27 Thread Stuart Stevenson
yup - that's no step for a stepper On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Mark Wendt mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil wrote: On 05/27/2010 12:24 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: heh - no no - I was talking about an adapter to remount his mower blade :) Well, hells bells, it's just a short jump from a mower

Re: [Emc-users] Using emcconfig

2010-05-27 Thread Ian W. Wright
Andy, did you actually try this? I did when I set up my new machine about 4 weeks ago and I ended up having to put references to all 6 joints in my ini file as I had on the previous machine. I'm currently using the last iteration of 2.3.x . Ian Andy Pugh wrote: On 27 May 2010 00:47, Kirk

Re: [Emc-users] nc code exceeds negative limit

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Mark Wendt wrote: On 05/26/2010 12:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Mark Wendt wrote: Or just pave it over and paint it green! ;-) Mark Have you priced concrete recently? That will rain on our parade. There's always crushed stone painted

Re: [Emc-users] nc code exceeds negative limit

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Mark Wendt wrote: On 05/26/2010 12:42 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Chuckle, unfortunately, the src of that fertilizer died at 10 years old about 4 years ago. An AKC Shelty, Heskett's Red Blaze Sunset, Blaze for short, thought he was people I think. In this house there was

Re: [Emc-users] Howto files for EMC.

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Mark Wendt wrote: On 05/26/2010 01:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Yup, a nearly $400 Cub Cadet. But OSHA or somebody has gotten into the lawn mower design business in the name of safety, and mandated that the skirt around the blade be made deep enough to protect the errant

Re: [Emc-users] Howto files for EMC.

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Mark Wendt wrote: On 05/26/2010 05:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Yup, gimme a 2 stroke, and if its built good, I'll give you something in the 2hp/ci for giddyup. I figure my last go cart, with its 13.5 cid deflector head water cooled engine, was making a good 25hp, cuz

Re: [Emc-users] Howto files for EMC.

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Mark Wendt wrote: On 05/27/2010 12:24 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: heh - no no - I was talking about an adapter to remount his mower blade :) Well, hells bells, it's just a short jump from a mower blade adapter to a replacement hip joint as far as the software is

Re: [Emc-users] nc code exceeds negative limit

2010-05-27 Thread Dave
On 5/27/2010 10:29 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2010, Mark Wendt wrote: On 05/26/2010 12:42 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Chuckle, unfortunately, the src of that fertilizer died at 10 years old about 4 years ago. An AKC Shelty, Heskett's Red Blaze Sunset, Blaze for short,

Re: [Emc-users] nc code exceeds negative limit

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Dave wrote: On 5/27/2010 10:29 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2010, Mark Wendt wrote: On 05/26/2010 12:42 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Chuckle, unfortunately, the src of that fertilizer died at 10 years old about 4 years ago. An AKC Shelty, Heskett's Red Blaze

Re: [Emc-users] nc code exceeds negative limit

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Dave wrote: Chuckle. Even thats not uber cheap here. It has to be trucked in from about 45 miles away. Last time I bought some it was $22/ton nearly 20 years back... Bought 600 ton, for the transmitters road. The tv station had a cow over that, but we had a usable

Re: [Emc-users] nc code exceeds negative limit

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Wendt
On 05/27/2010 10:29 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Yup, tin roof sunday or moose tracks, gotta have some chocolate. It will probably kill me someday, but what a way to go. :) My favorite is the peanut butter chocolate, but I'll take either one a them too! Mark

Re: [Emc-users] nc code exceeds negative limit

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Wendt
On 05/27/2010 10:57 AM, Dave wrote: Hey Gene, You are safe ... Fortunately Pie and Ice Cream are exempt from dietary calorie countingand it has zero negative health effects.. at least someone , somewhere said once, so that is what I believe ;-) Dave Now, that's the kinda good

Re: [Emc-users] Howto files for EMC.

2010-05-27 Thread Jon Elson
Mark Wendt wrote: On 05/26/2010 01:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Yup, a nearly $400 Cub Cadet. But OSHA or somebody has gotten into the lawn mower design business in the name of safety, and mandated that the skirt around the blade be made deep enough to protect the errant toe that may get

Re: [Emc-users] Using emcconfig

2010-05-27 Thread Andy Pugh
On 27 May 2010 14:28, Ian W. Wright watchma...@talktalk.net wrote: Andy, did you actually try this? I did when I set up my new machine about 4 weeks ago and I ended up having to put references to all 6 joints in my ini file as I had on the previous machine. I tried it a bit but only on my

[Emc-users] RE using emcconfig

2010-05-27 Thread alan battersby
Hi again, I did as ian suggested and placed info for 6 axes in the ini file. Initially because emc loaded I thought that everything was alright. However when I try to use the C axis (either manually or in a program) emc reprts a Joint 5 following error and stops. I am using the latest version of

Re: [Emc-users] RE using emcconfig

2010-05-27 Thread Andy Pugh
On 27 May 2010 19:11, alan battersby alan.batter...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hi again, I did as ian suggested and placed info for 6 axes in the ini file. Initially because emc loaded I thought that everything was alright. However when I try to use the C axis (either manually or in a program) emc

Re: [Emc-users] RE using emcconfig

2010-05-27 Thread Ian W. Wright
Alan, As a start I'd reduce the acceleration and increase MIN_FERROR on AXIS _5. Usually a following error is because the motor can't keep up with the program (though I don't know how it knows) - maybe its just that the parallel port can't spit out the pulses its being sent by EMC2 fast

Re: [Emc-users] RE using emcconfig

2010-05-27 Thread Andy Pugh
On 28 May 2010 00:01, Ian W. Wright watchma...@talktalk.net wrote: As a start I'd reduce the acceleration and increase MIN_FERROR on AXIS _5. Usually a following error is because the motor can't keep up with the program (though I don't know how it knows) In this case I suspect it will be