Re: [Emc-users] Pid saturated, was: Servo error

2012-12-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/12/28 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 27 December 2012 21:36, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: 7) wrote down counts pin value of -103 and saved as: 10) if I try to jog that joint, pid immediately gets saturated 11) if I comment out the encoder offset line like this: #

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-28 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:34:37 -0500, you wrote: Mainly the 3 weeks to a month it takes from mainland china for delivery. But since I've decided to sacrifice the one pin I was saving for a home pin, that is the path I'll take. That seems a long time? I've had several packages from China most

Re: [Emc-users] Performance/Features of LinuxCNC compared to Kuka KRC2

2012-12-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/12/28 Florian Rist fr...@fs.tum.de: Hi Viesturs I agree with Andy about keeping servo amps. The problem is, that these amps are from Kuka and linked to the controller by some kind of bus system. At present I do not know anything about this bus. Do You have any documentation to find

Re: [Emc-users] Pid saturated, was: Servo error

2012-12-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/12/27 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: This is very unlikely to do what you think it will (assuming default +-1.0 PWM ranges this will be 90% of full scale voltage so the 7I39 will current limit and you will not get anywhere near the current ratios you expect) I would try plain old Q

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-28 Thread MC Cason
On 12/28/2012 03:10 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:34:37 -0500, you wrote: Mainly the 3 weeks to a month it takes from mainland china for delivery. But since I've decided to sacrifice the one pin I was saving for a home pin, that is the path I'll take. That seems a long

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-28 Thread Kip Shaffer
Gene, Not sure if you would be interested in the approach I'm using, but it may help you or others who are in a similar predicament. You can use shift registers to add as many additional lines as you want. For example, you can take 3 output lines on your parallel port, and turn them into 8,

Re: [Emc-users] Pid saturated, was: Servo error

2012-12-28 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012, Viesturs L?cis wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:04:26 +0200 From: [UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 December 2012 08:51:33 Kip Shaffer did opine: Great Kip, bookmarked FFR. Thanks. Gene, Not sure if you would be interested in the approach I'm using, but it may help you or others who are in a similar predicament. You can use shift registers to add as many additional lines

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-28 Thread Dave
On 12/28/2012 5:15 AM, MC Cason wrote: On 12/28/2012 03:10 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:34:37 -0500, you wrote: Mainly the 3 weeks to a month it takes from mainland china for delivery. But since I've decided to sacrifice the one pin I was saving for a home

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski
Also, there are lots of TTL to USB and RS232 converters already assembled on Ebay - very cheap. Cheap until you check the shipping... :( Nah, shipping is often free from HongKong; it just takes a while:

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-28 Thread Ben Potter
Also, there are lots of TTL to USB and RS232 converters already assembled on Ebay - very cheap. Cheap until you check the shipping... :( I've almost been caught out by this a few times - sometimes the shipping is reasonable (or free), sometimes the shipping is more than the cost of the

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC driver support in upcomingLinuxCNC version

2012-12-28 Thread Javier Ros
Hi, I'm using motenc, so it would be nice if it can get supported. I'm a bit lost with the thousand of threads related to new developments, as I don't have too much spare time ultimately, but if it can be run on top ubuntu 10.04, I think I will be able to give it a try. Where can I get more

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC driver support in upcomingLinuxCNC version

2012-12-28 Thread Michael Haberler
Hi Javier, Am 29.12.2012 um 02:05 schrieb Javier Ros: Hi, I'm using motenc, so it would be nice if it can get supported. I'm a bit lost with the thousand of threads related to new developments, as I don't have too much spare time ultimately, but if it can be run on top ubuntu 10.04, I