Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-05 Thread Ed
On 5/5/20 9:21 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Sounds to me like you are up and running but your encoder is counting in reverse of the axis motion. How large is your following error in the ini file? The motor ran away from a different problem. Linuxcnc is not getting input from encoders. A new

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-05 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Sounds to me like you are up and running but your encoder is counting in reverse of the axis motion. How large is your following error in the ini file? Set your following error very high. Set your axis max velocity very low. Disable the drive enable, start the machine, check the screen to see

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-05 Thread Ed
On 5/4/20 7:51 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2020, Ed wrote: Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 19:41:11 -0500 From: Ed Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"     To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message On 5/4/20 5:0

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-04 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 01:53, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > Are you sure you have the correct firmware? There was a pin-dump earlier in the thread. It shows muxed encoders, so I am thinking not. (Mesa card names are great google targets. "7i29man" had me straight there.) -- atp "A motorcycle is a

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-04 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 4 May 2020, Ed wrote: Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 19:41:11 -0500 From: Ed Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message On 5/4/20 5:02 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 4 May 202

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-04 Thread Ed
On 5/4/20 5:02 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 20:18, Ed wrote: After trying a couple more edits then did a global replace of 7i80HD with 7i80 and it would start but had no inputs from the encoders and would run away if the drives were energized. Don't energise the drives until

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-04 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 20:18, Ed wrote: > After trying a couple more edits then did a global replace of 7i80HD > with 7i80 and it would start but had no inputs from the encoders and > would run away if the drives were energized. Don't energise the drives until the encoders at least count. You

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-04 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 22:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > I do not see any encoder A/B or index signals netted in the file below. > Shouldn't there be? Not with a Mesa card. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses,

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 04 May 2020 15:15:54 Ed wrote: > On 5/4/20 12:19 PM, andy pugh wrote: > > On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 18:00, Ed wrote: > >> Well, that worked! Enclosed is the message. Looks to my > >> unpracticed eye to be a network error. > > > > No it's this. > > > >> ./3-axis.hal:9: parameter or pin >

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-04 Thread Ed
On 5/4/20 12:19 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 18:00, Ed wrote: Well, that worked! Enclosed is the message. Looks to my unpracticed eye to be a network error. No it's this. ./3-axis.hal:9: parameter or pin 'hm2_7i80HD.0.pwmgen.pwm_frequency' not found Drop the "HD" from line

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-04 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 18:00, Ed wrote: > Well, that worked! Enclosed is the message. Looks to my unpracticed > eye to be a network error. No it's this. > ./3-axis.hal:9: parameter or pin 'hm2_7i80HD.0.pwmgen.pwm_frequency' not > found Drop the "HD" from line 9 of your 3-axis.hal file. --

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-04 Thread Ed
On 5/3/20 12:11 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: The easiest way I know to capture error messages (with the uspace version of LinuxCNC you are running) is to start linuxcnc from the command line. All error messages will be logged on the console which _can_ be copy-pasted Well, that worked!  

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
Tried the keyboard shortcuts of Ctrl+C for Copy and Ctrl+V for paste? Or click the center button (pushing down the scroll wheel should work) or both left and right buttons simultaneously for paste. If all fails snap a picture of the error message, or try Alt+PrtScr to take a screenshot of the

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-03 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 18:14, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > The easiest way I know to capture error messages (with the uspace version of > LinuxCNC you are running) is to start linuxcnc from the command line. All > error > messages will be logged on the console which _can_ be copy-pasted 2.8 has a

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-03 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sun, 3 May 2020, Ed wrote: Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 11:53:33 -0500 From: Ed Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message On 5/3/20 11:13 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Sun, 3 May 202

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-03 Thread Ed
On 5/3/20 11:13 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 16:47, Ed wrote: Select All selects OK but I cannot do a copy to paste into a message here. Any suggestions? Are you saying that Ctrl-C doesn't work? Nope. Ctrl-c nothing, right click nothing. A doc in Mousepad it all works

Re: [Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-03 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 16:47, Ed wrote: > > Select All selects OK but I cannot do a copy to paste > into a message here. Any suggestions? Are you saying that Ctrl-C doesn't work? -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical

[Emc-users] I can't seem to copy an error message

2020-05-03 Thread Ed
I am in the process of setting up a mill with a Mesa 7I80HD and am getting errors. Trying to copy the message in the pop up box and cannot seem to do it, Select All selects OK but I cannot do a copy to paste into a message here.  Any suggestions? Ed.