Re: [Emc-users] Back to isolcpus=1, again...

2012-01-30 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 01:49:57 AM gene heskett did opine: > On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 01:33:48 AM Kent A. Reed did opine: > > On 1/30/2012 11:35 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > > So at the moment, I'm back to being bumfuzzled again. No clue what > > > I changed that would have screwed up th

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-30 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 30.01.12 12:37, Kent A. Reed wrote: > On 1/30/2012 7:54 AM, Kenneth Lerman wrote: > I would hope for > > 1) a formal description of the grammar we already have. As Erik points > out, the LinuxCNC interpreter implicitly defines a grammar. It's just > hard to tell what the grammar is. It's hard

Re: [Emc-users] Back to isolcpus=1, again...

2012-01-30 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 01:33:48 AM Kent A. Reed did opine: > On 1/30/2012 11:35 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > So at the moment, I'm back to being bumfuzzled again. No clue what I > > changed that would have screwed up the older emc-2.6.0-pre after its > > been reinstalled. > > Me neither. T

Re: [Emc-users] Back to isolcpus=1, again...

2012-01-30 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/30/2012 11:35 PM, gene heskett wrote: > On Monday, January 30, 2012 10:57:23 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: > >> On 1/30/2012 8:36 PM, gene heskett wrote: >>> Greetings all; >>> >>> Just in the last day it has come to my attention that both >>> emc-2.6.0-pre (latest emc from buildbot, master-rt br

[Emc-users] [OT] Farnarkling [Was: question on gcode parsing]

2012-01-30 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 30.01.12 05:35, Mark Wendt wrote: > On 01/30/2012 01:14 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > 1) Be mnemonic. i.e. give some farnarckling clue as to what the command > > does. (Even "MOV" is orders of magnitude superior to "0x01" or "g01".) > > > > Erik, is this what you meant by "farnark

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-01-30 Thread dave
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:22:36 -0600 Jon Elson wrote: > Viesturs Lācis wrote: > > > > I would like to ask, if anyone could provide some recommendations > > for US Digital encoders - I chose them, because they seem to be > > next in the line in terms of affordability. > > > US Digital may not be

Re: [Emc-users] Back to isolcpus=1, again...

2012-01-30 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, January 30, 2012 10:57:23 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: > On 1/30/2012 8:36 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Just in the last day it has come to my attention that both > > emc-2.6.0-pre (latest emc from buildbot, master-rt branch) and the > > slightly newer renamed linux

Re: [Emc-users] Back to isolcpus=1, again...

2012-01-30 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/30/2012 8:36 PM, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Just in the last day it has come to my attention that both emc-2.6.0-pre > (latest emc from buildbot, master-rt branch) and the slightly newer renamed > linuxcnc-2.6.0-pre (latest from buildbot) are both running exclusively on > cpu0, a

[Emc-users] Back to isolcpus=1, again...

2012-01-30 Thread gene heskett
Greetings all; Just in the last day it has come to my attention that both emc-2.6.0-pre (latest emc from buildbot, master-rt branch) and the slightly newer renamed linuxcnc-2.6.0-pre (latest from buildbot) are both running exclusively on cpu0, and about tapping it out, even at 65 u-sec base loo

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-01-30 Thread sam sokolik
are you using the ttl -> differential converter/transmitters that you can get for the CUI/AMT encoders? (they are <$10 US) we had issues with ttl encoders above about 15ft. (shielded cable) We have used them on our conversion and they work great (even for non cui/amt encoders) sam On 01/30/201

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-01-30 Thread Tom Easterday
On Jan 30, 2012, at 3:56 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2012/1/30 Peter C. Wallace : >> >> I am suggesting this test because if there is a noise problem, different >> encoders may not help. > > Of course, I totally agree, but I just did not see a reason for noise by now. > >> A possible noise sour

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-01-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/1/30 Peter C. Wallace : > > I am suggesting this test because  if there is a noise problem, different > encoders may not help. Of course, I totally agree, but I just did not see a reason for noise by now. > A possible noise source is the PWM signals. This can > couple into the encoder if the

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-01-30 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Viesturs L?cis wrote: > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:33:57 +0200 > From: "[UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis" > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders? > > 2012/1/30 Peter C. Wallace : >

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-01-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/1/30 Peter C. Wallace : > > Before you change encoders, and noting that others have used the CUI/AMT > encoders with success, can you try a little experiment to make sure this is > not a noise --> losing count/commutation issue? Thank You for the explanation! I really appreciate that! And thi

Re: [Emc-users] File naming conventions in an o call?

2012-01-30 Thread John Thornton
As noted in the fine manuals all names get converted to lower case... so uppercase, humpy back file names will fail to load. Also remember the first file that the whatever it is finds is the one it uses and I think the search path is noted in the manuals as well... John On 1/30/2012 11:45 AM,

Re: [Emc-users] File naming conventions in an o call?

2012-01-30 Thread John Thornton
On 1/30/2012 11:32 AM, gene heskett wrote: > On Monday, January 30, 2012 12:17:58 PM John Thornton did opine: > >> If your using 2.4 >> >> http://linuxcnc.org/docview/html/gcode_main.html#r3_7 >> >> if your using 2.5 >> >> http://linuxcnc.org/docview/2.5/html/gcode/o-code.html#_calling_files > I

Re: [Emc-users] File naming conventions in an o call?

2012-01-30 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, January 30, 2012 01:01:04 PM Erik Friesen did opine: > Another gotcha with this, upper and lowercase doesn't seem to work. > Keep everything lowercase with both filename and subname. > That is because by the time it looks for filename, filename has been lower cased. That is stated

[Emc-users] Required file extensions, was Re: File naming conventions in an o call?

2012-01-30 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/30/2012 12:32 PM, gene heskett wrote: > On Monday, January 30, 2012 12:17:58 PM John Thornton did opine: > >> <...> > I didn't find this one in my searches of the wiki last night, and while its > a bit concise, it does say it all according to what I found by the 10,000 > moneys theory workings

Re: [Emc-users] File naming conventions in an o call?

2012-01-30 Thread Erik Friesen
Another gotcha with this, upper and lowercase doesn't seem to work. Keep everything lowercase with both filename and subname. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:16 PM, gene heskett wrote: > On Monday, January 30, 2012 11:40:25 AM John Thornton did opine: > > > If your using 2.4 > > > > http://linuxcnc

Re: [Emc-users] File naming conventions in an o call?

2012-01-30 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, January 30, 2012 12:17:58 PM John Thornton did opine: > If your using 2.4 > > http://linuxcnc.org/docview/html/gcode_main.html#r3_7 > > if your using 2.5 > > http://linuxcnc.org/docview/2.5/html/gcode/o-code.html#_calling_files I didn't find this one in my searches of the wiki last

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-30 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/30/2012 7:54 AM, Kenneth Lerman wrote: > On 01/30/2012 12:28 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: >> On 29.01.12 23:05, Kenneth Lerman wrote: >>> <...> >> <...> >> It is worth understanding that the current parser _does_ have a fixed >> grammar, just like the proposed alternative. The significant diff

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-01-30 Thread Jon Elson
Viesturs Lācis wrote: > > I would like to ask, if anyone could provide some recommendations for > US Digital encoders - I chose them, because they seem to be next in > the line in terms of affordability. > US Digital may not be the greatest. At least, at one time, you had to add capacitors to t

Re: [Emc-users] File naming conventions in an o call?

2012-01-30 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, January 30, 2012 11:40:25 AM John Thornton did opine: > If your using 2.4 > > http://linuxcnc.org/docview/html/gcode_main.html#r3_7 > > if your using 2.5 > > http://linuxcnc.org/docview/2.5/html/gcode/o-code.html#_calling_files > > http://linuxcnc.org/docview/2.5/html/config/ini_con

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-01-30 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Viesturs L?cis wrote: > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:18:51 +0200 > From: "[UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis" > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders? > > Hello! > > The conclusion of my st

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-01-30 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Viesturs L?cis wrote: > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:18:51 +0200 > From: "[UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis" > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders? > > Hello! > > The conclusion of my st

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-30 Thread Kenneth Lerman
On 01/30/2012 12:28 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 29.01.12 23:05, Kenneth Lerman wrote: >> Are you suggesting that a three axis machine where there is >> no A axis should have a different grammar than a four axis machine that >> does have an A axis. > No, there is no such constraint in the curr

Re: [Emc-users] File naming conventions in an o call?

2012-01-30 Thread John Thornton
If your using 2.4 http://linuxcnc.org/docview/html/gcode_main.html#r3_7 if your using 2.5 http://linuxcnc.org/docview/2.5/html/gcode/o-code.html#_calling_files http://linuxcnc.org/docview/2.5/html/config/ini_config.html#_rs274ngc_section_a_id_sub_rs274ngc_section_a John On 1/29/2012 5:59 PM,

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-01-30 Thread Anders Wallin
> I would like to ask, if anyone could provide some recommendations for > US Digital encoders - I chose them, because they seem to be next in > the line in terms of affordability. > I was particularly looking at E7P. > I have Keling KL23BLS_115 Nema 23 servo motors: > http://kelinginc.net/KL23BLS_1

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-30 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/30/2012 01:14 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > 1) Be mnemonic. i.e. give some farnarckling clue as to what the command > does. (Even "MOV" is orders of magnitude superior to "0x01" or "g01".) > Erik, is this what you meant by "farnarkling": http://mirror.uncyc.org/wiki/Farnarkling ;

[Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-01-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello! The conclusion of my struggle with tuning servo motors is that I shall change encoders. I based it on Jon's findings, when testing AMT 102 encoders and I also got a feedback from a local guy, who also had used them on a cnc machine. Sorry, Peter, I could not figure out, how to precisely sto

Re: [Emc-users] [OT]Moveing pcb-gcode generated files to the milling machine=huge PIMA

2012-01-30 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, January 30, 2012 04:36:56 AM Erik Christiansen did opine: > I'm still catching up on a 1200 post backlog across a couple of lists, > so here's a late reply. > > On 25.01.12 05:44, gene heskett wrote: > > I looked at the gawk man page, didn't see any mention of floating > > point math s

Re: [Emc-users] [OT]Moveing pcb-gcode generated files to the milling machine=huge PIMA

2012-01-30 Thread Erik Christiansen
I'm still catching up on a 1200 post backlog across a couple of lists, so here's a late reply. On 25.01.12 05:44, gene heskett wrote: > I looked at the gawk man page, didn't see any mention of floating point > math so I kept on looking. Bash only does integer. Didn't see any mention > of sed &

Re: [Emc-users] Nitpicking , was: Servo tuning - wt_?

2012-01-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/1/29 Kirk Wallace : > > Maybe I'm too picky, but "WT_" may be considered offensive to some. I sincerely apologize, if anyone felt it inappropriate! Viesturs -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The mos