Re: [Emc-users] for PCW

2017-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 March 2017 17:01:23 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Sat, 11 Mar 2017, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 16:53:28 -0500 > > From: Gene Heskett > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > Subject: [Emc-users] f

Re: [Emc-users] for PCW

2017-03-11 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017, Gene Heskett wrote: > Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 16:53:28 -0500 > From: Gene Heskett > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: [Emc-users] for PCW > > Greetings Peter; > > I just ran into a 2nd dead module on thi

[Emc-users] for PCW

2017-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings Peter; I just ran into a 2nd dead module on this 7i90, encoder 2 says everything is true/high. So I switched the wires & code to use encoder 3, for Z-jog, and which its not all hooked up yet in the hal file, it works fine so far. I bought me a pair of the static straps, and have not

Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 March 2017 12:02:36 dragon wrote: > I doubt that you will ever hit the end of life on a quality SD card, > especially a large size one. The writes that you are doing, and thus > the number of blocks, are TINY compared to what the cards were > designed for... photos and videos. You c

Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-11 Thread dragon
I doubt that you will ever hit the end of life on a quality SD card, especially a large size one. The writes that you are doing, and thus the number of blocks, are TINY compared to what the cards were designed for... photos and videos. You can also run a flash file system instead of ext4 if you lik

[Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; When I setup LCNC on the pi, one of the things I did was to make an R-Pi_nc_files directory on the rotating media of this machine, copied all the .ngc files I have generated to run on TLM to it, and cleaned out the nc_files directory on the pi, leaving only 2 files, which will r