Re: [Emc-users] Working parport pci chipsets

2009-12-08 Thread Maximilian Heise
Hello Sebastian, I am currently not around the shop for the next days, but I will pastebin them then. Cheers Max Maximilian H wrote: I got a 2 port SUN1888 pci parallel port today - only card I could find in town without a moschip chipset. I haven't tried to use the 2nd port, but the

Re: [Emc-users] Touch screens

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Epicier
Dear Steve I wish I knew how, I've spent days on this now and pretty much given up. I do also have the ver same problem here: installs OK, can be calibrated but then mirrors inputs on y axis. I tried an install on Suse 11.2 and the results are initially the same: y axis mirrored and SwapY

Re: [Emc-users] Touch screens

2009-12-08 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:54:04 + (GMT), you wrote: Dear Steve I wish I knew how, I've spent days on this now and pretty much given up. I do also have the ver same problem here: installs OK, can be calibrated but then mirrors inputs on y axis. I tried an install on Suse 11.2 and the results

[Emc-users] Portable EMC?

2009-12-08 Thread Jeshua Lacock
Greetings, Can anyone recommend a way to run EMC on a portable device? I know it doesn't work well on (at all?) on most laptops. Can anyone recommend a way to run it in a moving vehicle? I want to control a servo while on the road I suppose I could build a PC and have it run off of a

[Emc-users] Assumption bites twice.....

2009-12-08 Thread Martin Pinkston
O.k. guys, Now I really feel like an idiot.lol You guys are freaking serious about this I assumed I would get a little encouragement, but I guess I under-assumed the levels of commitment to success that is apparent and really kind-a awesome. So, from here out I will try to be more open

[Emc-users] Forgot to give my blog addy

2009-12-08 Thread Martin Pinkston
Sorry, www.212steam.blogspot.com Martin -- Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing

Re: [Emc-users] Portable EMC?

2009-12-08 Thread Jon Elson
Jeshua Lacock wrote: Greetings, Can anyone recommend a way to run EMC on a portable device? I know it doesn't work well on (at all?) on most laptops. Can anyone recommend a way to run it in a moving vehicle? I want to control a servo while on the road I suppose I could build a PC

Re: [Emc-users] Assumption bites twice.....

2009-12-08 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 22:02 -0500, Martin Pinkston wrote: ... snip Stepper motors use step, direction and enable. Chop drives use pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse. That 4 pulse signal is fed into the drive cards. Your system might be like my former Bandit that uses quadrature signals. I reused the

Re: [Emc-users] Portable EMC?

2009-12-08 Thread Jack
For a sim only version, I even saw on phlatforum.com a guy posted instructions on running the emc2 CD on VMWare on a windows machine. It whines about not doing the RT correctly, but it works OK for simulation. If we could find an inexpensive small board that is bullet proof enough for shop use,

Re: [Emc-users] Touch screens

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Epicier
Andy The Axis screen isn't very touch screen friendly so I still need a mouse to do some tasks. There is a dedicated touchscreen interface in the pipeline. http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gui_touchy.html Now that is good news! do you need a beta tester? Looking at the page, how

Re: [Emc-users] Assumption bites twice.....

2009-12-08 Thread Hubert Bahr
Martin Ok, old is 23 years the and motors sound like they are round so they are probably not rare earth magnetic material so they will have lower performance than newer designs of the same size. 6.8 ohms with only a 40 volt supply sounds relatively low power since usually the inductance