Re: [Emc-users] camview-emc first build fail

2016-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 20 January 2016 10:34:40 Gene Heskett wrote: Second update: Now linuxcnc runs again, but shows a white screen and none of the halui buttons, just the blank window. And on the screen that I launch it from a snapshot.png is attached. Taken with this same camera :) The invalid

Re: [Emc-users] camview-emc?

2016-01-20 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/20/2016 06:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > I take it you've not made it work with our wheezy install > either? I tend to lag the pack quite a bit! I think I'm still running 2.5.x here. Jon -- Site24x7 APM Insight:

Re: [Emc-users] camview-emc first build fail

2016-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 20 January 2016 12:22:24 Gene Heskett wrote: Third update: Nothing I can do will make it build the docs, in either .html or .pdf format, and no errors are being reported even if I run the Makefile in any of the three docs subdirs. The Makefiles are being updated when I rerun

Re: [Emc-users] camview-emc first build fail

2016-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 20 January 2016 09:44:27 Gene Heskett wrote: Update: ssh'd into the GO704 machine, I put a copy of the tarballs contents in ~/linuxcnc/src directory. Configure failed, no libv4l2 stuffs. Had synaptic install the -dev version. No clue if it will work, but ./configure

Re: [Emc-users] camview-emc first build fail

2016-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 20 January 2016 13:03:01 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 20 January 2016 12:22:24 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Third update: > > Nothing I can do will make it build the docs, in either .html or .pdf > format, and no errors are being reported even if I run the Makefile in > any of the

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Tweaking

2016-01-20 Thread andy pugh
On 15 January 2016 at 14:59, andy pugh wrote: > It's an interesting device, and I think I have repaired it. Pictures here: > > http://bodgesoc.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/holbrook6.html And the latest is that the Variator now seems to work:

Re: [Emc-users] Soft starting my mills spindle supply

2016-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 31 December 2015 13:10:01 Gene Heskett wrote: I've lost track of the thread where we were discussing bleeder R's for big power supplies. In any event, when it all started, I ordered a pair of 250 ohm 200 watt resistors from someplace in China, very early in that thread. It's been

Re: [Emc-users] camview-emc?

2016-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 20 January 2016 12:55:44 Jon Elson wrote: > On 01/20/2016 06:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I take it you've not made it work with our wheezy install > > either? > > I tend to lag the pack quite a bit! I think I'm still > running 2.5.x here. > > Jon > > Shame on you Jon. :) I am

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Tweaking

2016-01-20 Thread John Kasunich
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016, at 06:17 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 15 January 2016 at 14:59, andy pugh wrote: > > > It's an interesting device, and I think I have repaired it. Pictures here: > > > > http://bodgesoc.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/holbrook6.html > > And the latest is that the

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Tweaking

2016-01-20 Thread andy pugh
On 20 January 2016 at 23:49, John Kasunich wrote: > That control shaft turns easily - looks like a NEMA 23 stepper would have > no trouble controlling it. > > Although I guess sequencing is a challenge, can only adjust while running. > Are there clutches downstream of the

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Tweaking

2016-01-20 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/20/2016 05:17 PM, andy pugh wrote: > I will get the lathe fully functional first, then decide > on head bearings. Bearings are listed as 387/382B Which > are available and not as frightening as I feared: >

Re: [Emc-users] Question about closed loop CNC

2016-01-20 Thread Tomaz T .
Recently I installed Leadshine's nema 34 stepper with integrated encoder, driver used is also from Leadshine, and it is driven by Pico system's Universal Stepper Controller to which is also attached encoder feedback, so system is in close loop and it works very good. One thing I like about

Re: [Emc-users] camview-emc?

2016-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 19 January 2016 23:36:01 Jon Elson wrote: > On 01/19/2016 09:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 January 2016 22:02:13 Jon Elson wrote: > >> UGH! Camview is a TOTAL can of worms. > > > > Burns a huge hunk of cpu time when its running, so you have to creep > > up on the target

[Emc-users] camview-emc first build fail

2016-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; fresh thread. I downloaded a tarball from psha.orh.ru, containing 0.2.0.7 sources Unpacking it into a ~/src/camview-emc directory, "./configure --with-v4l2-plugin --with-v4l-plugin" appeared to work, but despite having v4l2.dev stuff installed, make exits a minute or so later with