Re: [Emc-users] Best Mesa Thermistor Reading Combo

2021-04-29 Thread andrew beck
That reminds me. I need to do just the same thing curtis On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, 6:53 AM Curtis Dutton, wrote: > Armed with an infrared thermometer and lincurve sounds like I can get a > nice solution. It doesn't have to be very accurate...just "stop before the > motor melts". Which being that I"m

Re: [Emc-users] Best Mesa Thermistor Reading Combo

2021-04-29 Thread Curtis Dutton
Armed with an infrared thermometer and lincurve sounds like I can get a nice solution. It doesn't have to be very accurate...just "stop before the motor melts". Which being that I"m cutting teensy pieces of aluminum, will probably never happen. But I tend to need guard rails sometimes! On Thu,

Re: [Emc-users] Best Mesa Thermistor Reading Combo

2021-04-29 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
I'm the author of the thermistor component, and it does not work as well as I had hoped. I've switched to using lincurve for the thermistors on my linuxcnc 3d printer. On Thu, Apr 29, 2021, 12:16 andy pugh wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 at 18:28, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > > > The resistance vs

Re: [Emc-users] Best Mesa Thermistor Reading Combo

2021-04-29 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 at 18:28, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > The resistance vs temperature is quite nonlinear so you would probably need to > feed the analog value to lincurve to linearize the temperature readout Or http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man1/thermistor.1.html (lincurve might

Re: [Emc-users] Best Mesa Thermistor Reading Combo

2021-04-29 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 29 Apr 2021, Curtis Dutton wrote: Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 12:01:56 -0400 From: Curtis Dutton Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Subject: [Emc-users] Best Mesa Thermistor Reading Combo I'm upgrading the old

[Emc-users] Best Mesa Thermistor Reading Combo

2021-04-29 Thread Curtis Dutton
I'm upgrading the old spindle motor for my Fadal VMC 15 rebuild project. I found a new old stock 11 KW 1RPM Fadal spindle motor that I'll be installing in it's stead. A06B-1446-B100#0102. It has an MZi encoder and a thermistor in the motor. I would like to integrate temperature monitoring.