Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread jeremy youngs
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 7:37 PM andy pugh wrote: > On 15 August 2018 at 01:21, jeremy youngs wrote: > > What is the difference between ==> and => ? > > They don't do anything. You can leave them out. > Sorry I should have given more information Andy , in the net command . As I understand it

[Emc-users] Fwd: Re: Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma Cutter?

2018-08-14 Thread Dan Bloomquist
Todd Zuercher wrote: I don’t want to start a big Mach bashing. I just want to hear some opinions from those who have set up a simple CNC plasma machine with both Mach and Linuxcnc. I've had first hand experience with both. My son decided to buy a turn-key mach3 system for his plasma

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 14 August 2018 20:36:02 andy pugh wrote: > On 15 August 2018 at 01:21, jeremy youngs wrote: > > What is the difference between ==> and => ? > > They don't do anything. You can leave them out. > > > Also what command will show the pins of my current mesa 7i90 > > configuration > >

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 14 August 2018 20:21:42 jeremy youngs wrote: > What is the difference between ==> and => ? In a .hal file, they are ignored I'm told as they are put there for the human readers to see which direction the signal is flowing. In an xml file, is the ending, and can span any number of

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread andy pugh
On 15 August 2018 at 01:21, jeremy youngs wrote: > What is the difference between ==> and => ? They don't do anything. You can leave them out. > Also what command will show the pins of my current mesa 7i90 configuration halcmd show pin -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread jeremy youngs
What is the difference between ==> and => ? Also what command will show the pins of my current mesa 7i90 configuration ? I need to know what those pins are , so I can reassign them to A-VALUE and B-value . I understand the name doesn't matter generally , but the 2 pins already exist in this

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma Cutter?

2018-08-14 Thread Todd Zuercher
The machine "works", as in they've made a half dozen ugly test cuts. But they have not figured out how to make the THC work right and some other finer points of perfection still need fixing. Things like squaring the gantry are currently done by grabbing the bridge and pulling it forward

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma Cutter?

2018-08-14 Thread Dave Cole
Mach3 is now pretty old. Is there a legit license installed with the software? Oftentimes machines were shipped with a demo license only. (limited Gcode support) CandCNC used to sell a lot of Mach3 software with their systems. Go look at their site now. If it works... why change it?  Chances

[Emc-users] Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma Cutter?

2018-08-14 Thread Todd Zuercher
I don’t want to start a big Mach bashing. I just want to hear some opinions from those who have set up a simple CNC plasma machine with both Mach and Linuxcnc. Are there any inherent advantages/disadvantages of one over the other for a plasma cutter? Here where I work they just purchased a

[Emc-users] Re gene

2018-08-14 Thread jeremy youngs
Gene I sent you a few emails, one of them bounced , I don't know if the others are in Cyberspace or not. Says cuda, recipient not allowed , I suspect your filtering didn't like the links and pic I had sent -- Check out the

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread jeremy youngs
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 12:26 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 14 August 2018 11:46:38 jeremy youngs wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 3:28 AM andy pugh wrote: > > > On 14 August 2018 at 02:52, jeremy youngs > wrote: > > > > Now it gives this > > > > > > The error is "setp needs 2 arguments,

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 14 August 2018 11:46:38 jeremy youngs wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 3:28 AM andy pugh wrote: > > On 14 August 2018 at 02:52, jeremy youngs wrote: > > > Now it gives this > > > > The error is "setp needs 2 arguments, only one given" and tells you > > that the problem is on line 15

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread jeremy youngs
Also , this should all run and operate from terminal when we get it right , correct? -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread jeremy youngs
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 3:28 AM andy pugh wrote: > On 14 August 2018 at 02:52, jeremy youngs wrote: > > > Now it gives this > > The error is "setp needs 2 arguments, only one given" and tells you > that the problem is on line 15 in qi.hal > > Line 15 in qi.hal says "setp

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread Dave Cole
On 8/14/2018 10:02 AM, andy pugh wrote: So, we have all lost interest in commutation now and I can stop following this thread? Sorry, I think I assisted in sending this message thread into the ditch.  :-/ I suspect the original issue still exists. Dave

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread andy pugh
So, we have all lost interest in commutation now and I can stop following this thread? -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 14 August 2018 07:43:54 Dave Cole wrote: > Gene, > > Although Google gathers more data that I would like, they really > aren't that hard to deal with. > Click on this link.    This is a picture in my Google drive folder. > >

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread Dave Cole
Gene, Although Google gathers more data that I would like, they really aren't that hard to deal with. Click on this link.    This is a picture in my Google drive folder. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1raznXmbhijqdhgkBom66q5j_-krhqbZMZQ I use Google drive all of the time, and it never

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 13 August 2018 23:03:51 jeremy youngs wrote: > What does # before line mean ? Thats an unread by LCNC comment line. Put there to prompt my fading memory as to what I was doing. > -- > Check out the vibrant

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 13 August 2018 22:58:48 jeremy youngs wrote: > *bldc.**N**.encoder-offset* s32 rw [if personality & 0x0A] (default: > *0*) > > The offset, in encoder counts, between the motor electrical zero and > the encoder zero modulo the number of counts per electrical revolution > A 1000 line ABX

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread andy pugh
On 14 August 2018 at 02:52, jeremy youngs wrote: > Now it gives this The error is "setp needs 2 arguments, only one given" and tells you that the problem is on line 15 in qi.hal Line 15 in qi.hal says "setp hm2_7i90.0.pwmgen.00.scale" But has no value provided to set the scale to. -- atp "A

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 13 August 2018 22:45:08 jeremy youngs wrote: > Try this > https://photos.app.goo.gl/wk5hmCqTuujFq9vc8 > Thank you A bit smaller but worked fine. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 14 August 2018 03:40:02 jeremy youngs wrote: > The real solution Gene , is a pi , running a network , wifi to my > phone so I don't have to take pics of screen shots. So , even after I > added link sharing and did pastebin you cannot open them ? The google shareing fixed it right up,

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 13 August 2018 21:52:44 jeremy youngs wrote: > I loadrt hostmot2 > > And 7i90 at the top so it can find the 7i90 pins ( it was failing to > do that ) > Now it gives this , I'm close , I can feel it , but I'm also ignorant > ant trying , lol. Sometimes that's all a steer can do to . >

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread jeremy youngs
The real solution Gene , is a pi , running a network , wifi to my phone so I don't have to take pics of screen shots. So , even after I added link sharing and did pastebin you cannot open them ? -- Check out the vibrant

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc commutatation

2018-08-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 13 August 2018 22:24:26 Dave Cole wrote: > Is not you.  The links are wrong. Is this intentional on the part of google? Answer is obvious. > In Google drive, if you right click the document and click share link, > it will copy the share link to the clipboard. > Then paste into your