Re: [Emc-users] (no subject) or, old system vs new system

2010-09-22 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: I hear that after DARPA got the Internet started, text based e-mail and bulletin boards made it fairly popular for computer types, but (personally, I wouldn't know), but it was adult entertainment that really drove the network expansion and the popularity with non-computer

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2010-09-21 Thread Kent A. Reed
Cutting to the chase in our conversation about Don Stanley's old motherboard and graphics card... In summary; I believe my old video cards can be propped up to have passable latency for now. I also believe I will have the same problem again when I need to update ubuntu and/or EMC2. To avid

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2010-09-21 Thread Don Stanley
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Kent A. Reed knbr...@erols.com wrote: Cutting to the chase in our conversation about Don Stanley's old motherboard and graphics card... In summary; I believe my old video cards can be propped up to have passable latency for now. I also believe I will have

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2010-03-01 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 09:42:55PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: I can't argue that Steve, having blown one. And that is the reason the output filter cap in my linear motor power supply is 75,000 uf. Yessiree Bob, gobble up them overvoltage spikes. ;-) And because of the limited out cap

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2010-03-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 March 2010, Erik Christiansen wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 09:42:55PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: I can't argue that Steve, having blown one. And that is the reason the output filter cap in my linear motor power supply is 75,000 uf. Yes siree Bob, gobble up them over voltage

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2010-02-28 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 11:32 -0700, Cathrine Hribar wrote: Hi All: I have a problem with my stepper driver board. The board is made by Stepmaster. Board # SOP-1 ver. 1.2 I need steplen, stepspace, dirsetup, and dirhold. Can't get steppers to be reliable faster than Max. Vol. .3 Anyone

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2010-02-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 February 2010, Cathrine Hribar wrote: Hi All: I have a problem with my stepper driver board. The board is made by Stepmaster. Board # SOP-1 ver. 1.2 I need steplen, stepspace, dirsetup, and dirhold. Can't get steppers to be reliable faster than Max. Vol. .3 The first link I found

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2010-02-28 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:23:48 -0500, you wrote: I have 2 myself, abide by the rules and my machine can move 25 ipm with a 27.5 volt supply. They are I believe the same allegro chip used on the xylotex boards, but xylotex puts heat sinks on them and recommends plenty of air flow for full

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2010-02-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 February 2010, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:23:48 -0500, you wrote: I have 2 myself, abide by the rules and my machine can move 25 ipm with a 27.5 volt supply. They are I believe the same allegro chip used on the xylotex boards, but xylotex puts heat sinks on them

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2009-12-07 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Juan Carlos wrote: Hello, I wanth to make a control for a plasma cutting machina using the emc2. I download the ubuntu iso cd and install on desktop for testing with a montec pci card and servo dynamics analog driver with dc servomotor. At this moment all work good. I need make some

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2009-12-07 Thread micges
Juan Carlos pisze: Hello, I wanth to make a control for a plasma cutting machina using the emc2. I download the ubuntu iso cd and install on desktop for testing with a montec pci card and servo dynamics analog driver with dc servomotor. At this moment all work good. I need make some

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2009-11-04 Thread John VanAtta
HOSTMOT2 config. John From: Eric H. Johnson ejohn...@camalytics.com To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Mon, November 2, 2009 4:22:25 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] (no subject) John, In addition to what Peter said, if I am

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2009-11-04 Thread Eric H. Johnson
John, The pins motion.spindle-forward and motion.spindle-reverse should be correct. Is motion.enable true? Did you give the S parameter a non-zero value? As for Axis, I cannot be much help there, as I mostly don't use it except for testing. Regards, Eric I have two more questions Do have any

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2009-11-04 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
John VanAtta wrote: Hello Eric I have two more questions Do have any idea which soft pin link to M3 and M4 for spindle rotation. I currently have aVFD set up to recive inputs for cw and ccw rotation. I see there are two types of soft pins (Halui and Motion) and I tried both with no

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2009-11-04 Thread John VanAtta
for the help John From: Eric H. Johnson ejohn...@camalytics.com To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 2:25:24 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] (no subject) John, The pins motion.spindle-forward

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2009-11-04 Thread John VanAtta
Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 2:41:20 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] (no subject) John VanAtta wrote: Hello Eric I have two more questions Do have any idea which soft pin link to M3 and M4 for spindle rotation. I currently have aVFD set up to recive inputs

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2009-11-04 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
John VanAtta wrote: Hello Steve OOPS! I left that out of the description. I called the signals spindle_cw and spindle_ccw. net spindle_cw motion.spindle-forward=hm2-5i23.0.gpio.042.out And presumably you did have spaces between the pin names and the = ... :) - Steve

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2009-11-02 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, John VanAtta wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:39:43 -0800 (PST) From: John VanAtta johnvana...@rocketmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC Mailing list emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] (no

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2009-11-02 Thread Eric H. Johnson
John, In addition to what Peter said, if I am not mistaken, GPIO 42 maps to pin 37 (output 2). I think you want GPIO 40 (output 0) which should map to pin 33. Regards, Eric Do you have the is_output parameter set for GPIO 42?

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2009-11-02 Thread John VanAtta
Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Mon, November 2, 2009 4:22:25 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] (no subject) John, In addition to what Peter said, if I am not mistaken, GPIO 42 maps to pin 37 (output 2). I think you want GPIO 40 (output 0) which should map to pin 33. Regards

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2008-12-11 Thread Stuart Stevenson
sus motores son 'stepper' o 'servo' si los motores son 'stepper' no tengo experiencia con steppers y porque necesitas encoders es necessario pedir en Ingles por los developers creo es necesario 'detune' o 'soften' la mechanizado con stepgen pienso que es mejor ajustar sin 'backlash' y despes

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2008-10-18 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 05:33:20PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the help that was given when requested. Got the lathe at work up and running on Friday afternoon, found that I had been misreading the stepconfig. Tried a program that I had programmed via mastercam, ran for

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2008-09-30 Thread Greg Michalski
My 6.06 install runs nicely on a PIII 660MHz but I had to add memory upping it to 384mb for reasonable latency results. I've also had it running on a Pentium (the first class...) but never actually ran it, just tested the interface and got familiar with it. Are you getting an error message on

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2008-09-30 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:27:38PM -0700, Tod Spooner wrote: I have an old pentium II 333Mhz 192M ram with Mepis lite installed on it I have tried to install ubuntu 6.06 with I have run 6.06 on a machine just like this but with more RAM. I know I had at least 384 and it might have been 512.

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2008-07-19 Thread John Lichter
To Jon Elson,    Thanks for your help and unerstanding. I will do it.  John    - Original Message From: Jon Elson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 9:18:06 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] (no subject) John

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2008-07-18 Thread Jon Elson
John Lichter wrote: Jon, I wouldn't have a clue about how to do what you said. John OK, when the system is first booting up, right after the manufacturer's splash screen (if any), it says : GRUB loading, please wait... Hit ESC at that time, and you get a menu. Generally the last

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2008-07-18 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 21:18 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: John Lichter wrote: Jon, I wouldn't have a clue about how to do what you said. John OK, when the system is first booting up, right after the manufacturer's splash screen (if any), it says : GRUB loading, please wait...

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2008-07-16 Thread John Kasunich
John Lichter wrote: A friend of mine thought it looked strange that my wife was talking you all of you so I got a new one. John New wife? ;-) - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2007-11-29 Thread noel.rodes
on a dedicated computer with an SSD drive(s). Anyway, just my 2 cents. Roguish. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Ayre Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Ayre
The idea of respins is that you can create multiple different versions easily. So you could have a minimal version and a minimal with network version for example. Plus as long as you have network support in the respin, it is always possible to use the repositories to install more software - just

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2007-11-29 Thread Ray Henry
I find this fascinating. Long years ago after some preliminary work by Will at NIST, I authored a knoppix-emc CD and worked with Paul while developing the Morphix (take the red pill) version that became the debian BDI. A couple of things come to mind. One of the concerns for me, being at the

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2007-11-29 Thread Ray Henry
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 22:41 +, paul_c wrote: Minor correction - The Morphix base produced the BDI-live and laid the foundations for later work Oh Yes. I think I was foreshortening a step or three there. How long does it take to download compilers, libraries, and assorted tools at 3K

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