Re: [Emc-users] Outrunners

2012-02-24 Thread Lars Andersson
While 10 RPM is pretty impressive mechanicalvise, it is only 1700 Hz on a two-pole motor. A BLDC is similar to a syncronous three phase motor that was used much for really high power apps in ancient times, maybe even today. Typical example is a city water supply pump. They had to be brought up

Re: [Emc-users] Outrunners

2012-02-24 Thread Erik Friesen
100K / 60 * 2(poles) = electrical rpms. You'll need to run the pwm well over 100Khz to do this. The lowly dspic33f mc motor series will struggle to do this, let alone any additional processing. I think there is something else though, it seems that a bldc has less torque from a fixed frequency

Re: [Emc-users] Outrunners

2012-02-24 Thread Erik Friesen
Of course, if you use hall effect sensors it would be easier. Some folks add hall effect sensors to outrunners, it works fine. On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:08 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 February 2012 17:30, Lars Andersson l...@larsandersson.com wrote: You can run a BLDC from

[Emc-users] Spindle speed interfaces

2012-02-24 Thread gene heskett
Greetings all; The spindle controller in a 7x10-12-14 is quite a bit different from the one in my mill, so my question is: Can it be controlled by essentially the same controller (in this case a PMDX-106) as has worked so well on the mill? And if so, how hard is it in hal, to tie the

[Emc-users] Signing Off

2012-02-24 Thread andy pugh
I am heading off tomorrow to do a bit of sailing. I won't have any internet at all for 7 weeks. I will be back in April. -- atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, quite simply, wrong. --

Re: [Emc-users] Signing Off

2012-02-24 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, andy pugh wrote: Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:49:58 + From: andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] Signing

Re: [Emc-users] Signing Off

2012-02-24 Thread kqt4at5v
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, andy pugh wrote: I am heading off tomorrow to do a bit of sailing. I won't have any internet at all for 7 weeks. I will be back in April. Could you please elaborate Are you sailing between planets, 7 weeks Being a land locked farm boy it sounds interesting Richard

Re: [Emc-users] Signing Off

2012-02-24 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 00:49 +, andy pugh wrote: I am heading off tomorrow to do a bit of sailing. I won't have any internet at all for 7 weeks. I will be back in April. I hope you have a great adventure. Bon voyage. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/

Re: [Emc-users] Outrunners

2012-02-24 Thread Jon Elson
andy pugh wrote: It will probably start from rest, certainly with a soft-starting VFD, and will run synchronously. However, running synchronously the phase lead will depend only on load, and will be very small. The field will be almost 100% direct and zero quadrature. The effect of this is

Re: [Emc-users] Signing Off

2012-02-24 Thread Jon Elson
andy pugh wrote: I am heading off tomorrow to do a bit of sailing. I won't have any internet at all for 7 weeks. I will be back in April. Hope you are in the southern hemisphere, the weather in the northern is still a bit cool for me. Enjoy Jon

Re: [Emc-users] Signing Off

2012-02-24 Thread Dave
On 2/24/2012 7:49 PM, andy pugh wrote: I am heading off tomorrow to do a bit of sailing. I won't have any internet at all for 7 weeks. I will be back in April. You consider that a bit of sailing!?!? Good Luck, keep the harness on, and stay warm. Dave

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i25 with Generic stepper board

2012-02-24 Thread Chris Morley
Here is a hand built XML file for 5i25 with prob_rfx2 firmware. You need to add the folder '5i25' to /lib/firmware/hm2 then add the XML file to that folder. You will need administer privileges to do this. one way is to open a terminal and typesudo nautilus and then your password. after

Re: [Emc-users] Brass finish question?

2012-02-24 Thread charles green
sulfuic acid (battery acid) wont eat copper. might make a matte surface on brass. then, if silver blackens better than copper, so might a silver plating applied over matte copper/brass. http://www.swdinc.com/black_oxide.htm if you have a tin can and a pressure cooker. --- On Thu, 2/23/12,

[Emc-users] Film Emulsion for Encoder Wheels?

2012-02-24 Thread Kirk Wallace
I wonder if one could make an encoder wheel with a thin glass disk, coat it with a film emulsion, expose it to an image of an encoder wheel, and develop it like regular film? Or, use a thin sheet metal disk with photoresist and etch the slots? I know these techniques are use commercially, I'm