Re: [Emc-users] m101 Turret Program

2007-08-21 Thread Kirk Wallace
Doooh...I remembered this morning that anything from iocontrol.X is in user space. My original concern stemmed from an application where I was controlling an antenna rotor using "sleep" to control the timing of a 60 Hz two phase signal. The motion would be erratic depending on the system load. The

Re: [Emc-users] m101 Turret Program

2007-08-21 Thread Jeff Epler
G4 delays in gcode and "sleep" delays in shell scripts are both non-realtime. The delay you get will always be at least .2 seconds, but may be longer. Jeff - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping thro

Re: [Emc-users] m101 Turret Program

2007-08-21 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 06:17 +, Chris Morley wrote: > Hey Kirk > > Just cause I'm curious, Why didn't you use classicladder to select > tools from your turret? It has timers good to 100ms min. Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about Classic Ladder, so I tend to use what I know. I have

Re: [Emc-users] m101 Turret Program

2007-08-20 Thread Chris Morley
Hey Kirk Just cause I'm curious, Why didn't you use classicladder to select tools from your turret? It has timers good to 100ms min. Then you could use the tool pins from emcmot to control the turret -automating tool changes to use regular T and M codes,instead of using M101- or you could use