Re: [Emc-users] Camview-emc workalike?

On Monday 01 February 2016 13:44:16 Fox Mulder wrote: > Am 01.02.2016 um 18:32 schrieb Gene Heskett: > > On Monday 01 February 2016 05:46:16 Fox Mulder wrote: > >> Am 31.01.2016 um 23:49 schrieb Gene Heskett: > >>> On Sunday 31 January 2016 11:34:46 Fox Mulder wrote: > Am 31.01.2016 um 16:19

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa Reseller in America

2016-02-02 0:14 GMT+02:00 John Thornton : > I just want to announce that I'm going to be a Mesa Electronics reseller > in America. I just got conformation on my first stocking order should be > here Friday February 5th. As soon as I get everything checked in the > store will be

[Emc-users] Odd SSR behaviour?

Greetings; Those of you reading the mail know I made a soft start circuit for the spindle PSU. It basically consists of two SSR's in series, the first one being the main switch that enables AC power to reach the transformer by way of a 51 Ohm 200 watt inrush limiting resistor. And that after

Re: [Emc-users] Odd SSR behaviour?

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016, at 05:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Those of you reading the mail know I made a soft start circuit for the > spindle PSU. > > It basically consists of two SSR's in series, the first one being the > main switch that enables AC power to reach the transformer

[Emc-users] Problem with linuxcnc not starting

So when I came down to the shop today to use my mill every time I tried to launch linuxcnc it would crash and give me a report window instead of starting axis. I updated the system since there were new updates that were available thinking maybe that might fix it but it hasn't. The only thing that

[Emc-users] Mesa Reseller in America

I just want to announce that I'm going to be a Mesa Electronics reseller in America. I just got conformation on my first stocking order should be here Friday February 5th. As soon as I get everything checked in the store will be up and running. www.mesaus.com Thanks JT

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa Reseller in America

Feedback is what I need the most right now. Thanks, I'll see if I can set that up somehow in the store. JT On 2/1/2016 4:28 PM, Andrew wrote: > 2016-02-02 0:14 GMT+02:00 John Thornton : > >> I just want to announce that I'm going to be a Mesa Electronics reseller >> in

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

On 02/01/2016 12:33 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 1 February 2016 at 18:02, Dave Cole wrote: >> I'd still like to understand how China goods can be shipping and >> imported into the US for virtually free, but I can't ship the same item >> across the country for anything close

Re: [Emc-users] Problem with linuxcnc not starting

Can you post/attach your hal and ini files? I think the line: "No input device matching 'Jess' was found (1 devices checked)" means that it's looking for your gamepad under a different name On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:39 PM, chris wrote: > So when I came down to the shop

Re: [Emc-users] Odd SSR behaviour?

On Monday 01 February 2016 17:49:01 John Kasunich wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016, at 05:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Those of you reading the mail know I made a soft start circuit for > > the spindle PSU. > > > > It basically consists of two SSR's in series, the first one being

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

On 02/01/2016 12:02 PM, Dave Cole wrote: >Although Nafta was > suppose to grease the skids between countries. From personal > experience, and a small biz owner I can tell you that it only greased > the skids for big companies to transfer large quantities of goods and > assets across the

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

On 02/01/2016 12:01 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 1 February 2016 at 17:40, Jon Elson wrote: >> The US was the ONLY developed country that was not left in >> total ruin in 1945. (Well, Britain wasn't all that bad.) > Britain had intact government and institutions, but the

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

Aliexpress is just a site for vendors to sell through. AFAIK, Aliexpress sells nothing themselves. So if you get bad packaging from one vendor, it's not the fault of Aliexpress. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: [Emc-users] Digikey for me [Was: Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me]

OZ still got supplier 'Dick Smith' inventor of the co-tanga antenna? ( his joke ads were great, the co-tanga antenna was a bent coat hangar ) tomp On 02/01/2016 03:28 PM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > The ability to order on the internet has wiped out quite a few local > professional parts

Re: [Emc-users] Digikey for me [Was: Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me]

On 01.02.16 16:51, TJoseph Powderly wrote: > OZ still got supplier 'Dick Smith' > inventor of the co-tanga antenna? > ( his joke ads were great, the co-tanga antenna was a bent coat hangar ) > tomp Yeah, good enough for the name to be borrowed for later variants. Just a month ago it went belly

[Emc-users] pyrros...@metrotech-hellas.gr

pyrros...@metrotech-hellas.gr -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take

Re: [Emc-users] Creating G-code?

On 31 Jan 2016, at 05:03, Chris Albertson wrote: > Yes. Sorry that was a typo, autocorrected. But actually the subscription > model of paying for software is the same.Microsoft is doing this with > Office 360 too. All of these companies are looking to do the same > things, even out

Re: [Emc-users] Creating G-code?

On 31 Jan 2016, at 04:56, Chris Albertson wrote: > This is what I get for typing while I'm looking at the app, rather than > after using it for a while. I got to it using it via a different rout. > For Mac users getting it from the Apple Mac Store is better than > downloading from the Autodesk

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

Farnell Newark Element 14 Joke All the same company. Joke It is cheaper for me to order parts from the US plus shipping by (1/3) than buy locally from the Newark in New Zealand and this was on a $800 order for multi turn pots. I now only buy from the branded houses if I need next day else eBay or

Re: [Emc-users] Creating G-code?

On 31 Jan 2016, at 05:27, tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: >> On Jan 30, 2016, at 11:56 PM, Chris Albertson >> wrote: >> >> For Mac users getting it from the Apple Mac Store is better than downloading >> from the Autodesk web site.Apple will manage software updates >>

Re: [Emc-users] Camview-emc workalike?

Am 31.01.2016 um 23:49 schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Sunday 31 January 2016 11:34:46 Fox Mulder wrote: > >> Am 31.01.2016 um 16:19 schrieb Gene Heskett: >>> On Sunday 31 January 2016 07:48:43 Fox Mulder wrote: Am 30.01.2016 um 02:10 schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Friday 29 January 2016 16:52:58

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

I had a Chinese migrant who worked for me here in New Zealand and her comment was, Aliexpress is just EBay. It is not a one big shop selling everything. It is many many sellers with their goods. Check their feedback first. Best thing is when you receive the goods open a dispute and then let

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

On 02/01/2016 12:44 AM, John Dammeyer wrote: > So the deck is stacked against Canadian companies in all sorts of > directions. > Well, the only hope is to find a niche so small that the Chinese copycats can't be bothered to copy what you are doing. Jon

Re: [Emc-users] Creating G-code?

ROFLMAO!!! So many years compiling, configuring, running and managing sendmail, I would tend to agree with Mr Altman. I have probably as many scars as you, Jerry. ;-) Mark On 02/01/2016 12:59 AM, Jerry Scharf wrote: > Eric Altman, author of sendmail said that he received "a lifetime of >

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

On 1 February 2016 at 05:10, John Dammeyer wrote: > Digikey stuff overnight unless there's been some sort of weather delay. > There is no shipping charge if the order is over $200. RS used to offer free shipping for any order size, then changed it to free for orders >

Re: [Emc-users] Creating G-code?

Oh gawd. m4 and the sacrificial chickens used to compile sendmail.cf's and such. That's a nightmare I've left in my past... ;-) Mark On 01/31/2016 11:27 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > I was thinking about using "m4". It is a macro processor that is already > on every Linux/Unix system and I

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me (OT warning)

On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 08:27:42 -0800 Steve Traugott wrote: > Interesting. My wife and I run an electronics manufacturing business. ... Interesting wife and business seems exciting. One of my teachers once asked why women prefer gold it does not corrode but I answered it's

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

Interesting. My wife and I run an electronics manufacturing business. We tend to prefer mouser *because* their parametric search works so well -- I've always thought it was better than Digikey's. I think it probably comes down to getting the hang of a particular web site's parametric search.

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

On 02/01/2016 11:27 AM, Steve Traugott wrote: > Interesting. My wife and I run an electronics manufacturing business. We > tend to prefer mouser *because* their parametric search works so well -- > I've always thought it was better than Digikey's. > > I think it probably comes down to getting

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

On 01/31/2016 11:29 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 01/31/2016 11:10 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: >> In Canada we pay in Canadian dollars and the prices of the parts are >> suitably inflated past just the exchange rate. There is no minimum and >> shipping is a flat $8. I'm on Vancouver Island and FedEx

Re: [Emc-users] Camview-emc workalike?

On Monday 01 February 2016 05:46:16 Fox Mulder wrote: > Am 31.01.2016 um 23:49 schrieb Gene Heskett: > > On Sunday 31 January 2016 11:34:46 Fox Mulder wrote: > >> Am 31.01.2016 um 16:19 schrieb Gene Heskett: > >>> On Sunday 31 January 2016 07:48:43 Fox Mulder wrote: > Am 30.01.2016 um 02:10

Re: [Emc-users] Creating G-code?

Adding to the code fight. It's a pity we still have to deal with G-code. It's not 1960's when machines came with equivalent of few hundred bytes of memory and/or paper tape reader. Why is it that people need to remember some G to move a tool along x or y axis in increments or absolute

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa Reseller in America

Congratulations, John! Wish someone would have the guts to do that here in old Germany, too! Peter Am 01.02.2016 23:14, schrieb John Thornton: > I just want to announce that I'm going to be a Mesa Electronics reseller > in America. I just got conformation on my first stocking order should be >

Re: [Emc-users] Creating G-code?

That is the point it is the case of the golden hand cuffs. The idea is the vendor gets you locked in and more or less holds your data hostage. As long as you play nice and pay up all is ok but if you dont or the vendor needs money in a hurry your day to day businesses is held for ransom. As

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa Reseller in America

Congrats John! Dave On 2/1/2016 5:45 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Feedback is what I need the most right now. Thanks, I'll see if I can > set that up somehow in the store. > > JT > > On 2/1/2016 4:28 PM, Andrew wrote: >> 2016-02-02 0:14 GMT+02:00 John Thornton : >> >>> I just

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

On 02/01/2016 09:42 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 02/01/2016 12:44 AM, John Dammeyer wrote: >>So the deck is stacked against Canadian companies in all sorts of >> directions. >> > Well, the only hope is to find a niche so small that the > Chinese copycats can't be bothered to copy what you are

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

On 1 February 2016 at 18:02, Dave Cole wrote: > I'd still like to understand how China goods can be shipping and > imported into the US for virtually free, but I can't ship the same item > across the country for anything close to the same cost. > If anyone knows, please

Re: [Emc-users] Camview-emc workalike?

Am 01.02.2016 um 18:32 schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Monday 01 February 2016 05:46:16 Fox Mulder wrote: > >> Am 31.01.2016 um 23:49 schrieb Gene Heskett: >>> On Sunday 31 January 2016 11:34:46 Fox Mulder wrote: Am 31.01.2016 um 16:19 schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Sunday 31 January 2016

[Emc-users] Trying to re-invent the camview calibration wheel, but without camview...

Greetings pyvcp guru's; On my web page, in Genes-os9-stf/LCNC, please look at pyvcp-panel.xml. The first stanza, the tach dial for rpms, and the 3 spindle power and status buttons, all works as expected. The last labelframe with the align stuff appears to work. At least, if the machine is

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

On 1 February 2016 at 17:40, Jon Elson wrote: > The US was the ONLY developed country that was not left in > total ruin in 1945. (Well, Britain wasn't all that bad.) Britain had intact government and institutions, but the major industrial centres had been heavily bombed

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

A good chunk of my "Cole" family branch lived on Vancouver Island and some still do. Another branch is from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia and we all still stay in touch which is rather amazing to me. The US has a love-hate relationship with Canada. Although Nafta was suppose to grease the

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me (OT warning)

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 08:27:42 -0800 > Steve Traugott wrote: > >> Interesting. My wife and I run an electronics manufacturing business. ... > > Interesting wife and business seems exciting.

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

So far that's been my Electronic Lead Screw for Lathes. But that's a tiny market. Any LED light show stuff that I build is available cheaper from other places. Only when it's a government sponsored project like the one in the link do I get to design the hardware and software. For this project

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

On 02/01/2016 12:44 AM, John Dammeyer wrote: > Hi Jon, > I can buy 100 pieces at $8.622 each in Cdn. which is about $6.15US or > $862.20 Cdn total ($615.00 US). > http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/DSPIC30F5011-20I%2FPT/DSPIC30F5011-2 > 0I%2FPT-ND/691581 > > The US site lists 100 pieces at