Re: [Emc-users] Closed loop stepping system

2013-04-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Search for Leadshine closed loop stepper on YouTube. Looks like some very smooth and quiet operation from steppers. -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data.

Re: [Emc-users] : Which mini ITX board to choose? (Rudy du Preez)

2013-04-11 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Gene What I sometimes do is to take a piece of electrical wire and strip the insulation off. Then I split the insulation along the length and slip it over the sharp edge. You can glue it with some epoxy or the like. On 2013/04/11 12:16 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 10 April 2013

[Emc-users] Routing cables out the back of a PC Re: : Which mini ITX board to choose? (Rudy du Preez)

2013-04-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Use the port connectors which used to come with later AT style and some ATX motherboards. Computers shops that have been around for a while should have a bunch of them if they haven't cleaned out their old stuff. Just be aware that the header pinouts on those used to be one way, then Intel

Re: [Emc-users] Closed loop stepping system

2013-04-11 Thread Tomaz T .
That's nice presentation, and exactly what I'm looking for to improve my two rotary axes with steppers...   Search for Leadshine closed loop stepper on YouTube. Looks like some very smooth and quiet operation from steppers.

Re: [Emc-users] : Which mini ITX board to choose? (Rudy du Preez)

2013-04-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 April 2013 08:39:43 Marius Liebenberg did opine: Gene What I sometimes do is to take a piece of electrical wire and strip the insulation off. Then I split the insulation along the length and slip it over the sharp edge. You can glue it with some epoxy or the like. I've done

Re: [Emc-users] Closed loop stepping system

2013-04-11 Thread Javier Ros
Thanks Gene, this has been a very enriching discussion. No plans still for the Hubles's mirror :). Cheers, Javier On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Wednesday 10 April 2013 13:01:29 Javier Ros did opine: This system

Re: [Emc-users] Closed loop stepping system

2013-04-11 Thread Jon Elson
Gene Heskett wrote: Somebody thinking outside the box, and making perfect sense. The only fly in the soup is the 10,000 step encoder, and servicing it at 200 rpS to get that 12,000 rpms If you run a stepper motor at 12,000 RPM, it will burn up in minutes. You can spin a typical stepper

Re: [Emc-users] Closed loop stepping system

2013-04-11 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013, Jon Elson wrote: Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:32:55 -0500 From: Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users]

Re: [Emc-users] : Which mini ITX board to choose? (Rudy du Preez)

2013-04-11 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, I just put together an e350n with 4GB ram and 120GB SSD. The only bios play I did was to try to boot with a USB HDD. No joy there so I used a sata dvd to install. The all day servo thread latency settles around 9600 (an overnight run was 12000 in the morning). The all day base

Re: [Emc-users] Poor CV

2013-04-11 Thread Kenneth Lerman
On 4/10/2013 5:01 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 10 April 2013 21:50, dave dengv...@charter.net wrote: No panacea anywhere in sight. Something I saw somewhere on the Internet (possibly a link from mah) was an article about different approaches. One very interesting idea was that every move as well

Re: [Emc-users] Poor CV

2013-04-11 Thread dave
Ah! your timing is impeccable. I just sent some references to Kent with hope they will get added to the wiki. Dave On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 18:56 -0400, Kenneth Lerman wrote: On 4/10/2013 5:01 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 10 April 2013 21:50, dave dengv...@charter.net wrote: No panacea anywhere

Re: [Emc-users] Poor CV

2013-04-11 Thread andy pugh
On 11 April 2013 23:56, Kenneth Lerman kenneth.ler...@se-ltd.com wrote: While we are looking at this, we should be sure to consider adding jerk limits to the system. I don't think this is rocket science. But then, neither is rocket science: http://youtu.be/THNPmhBl-8I I have tried writing a

Re: [Emc-users] Poor CV

2013-04-11 Thread dave
On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 18:56 -0400, Kenneth Lerman wrote: On 4/10/2013 5:01 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 10 April 2013 21:50, dave dengv...@charter.net wrote: No panacea anywhere in sight. Something I saw somewhere on the Internet (possibly a link from mah) was an article about different

[Emc-users] OT: Rocket science Re: Poor CV

2013-04-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- On Thu, 4/11/13, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: From: andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Poor CV To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013, 5:42 PM On 11 April 2013 23:56, Kenneth Lerman

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Rocket science Re: Poor CV

2013-04-11 Thread Pete Matos
Of course we landed on the moon silly.right?! LOL Pete On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Thu, 4/11/13, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: From: andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Poor CV To: Enhanced Machine

[Emc-users] A project I want to do on a CNC mill

2013-04-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I'd like to get the exact dimensions for the triangle pattern used in the wall and floor panels of Skylab. Looks like there are round holes, possibly threaded, where the triangle holes meet. Why that pattern? Because it's an interesting design and looks like it could be useful for other

Re: [Emc-users] A project I want to do on a CNC mill

2013-04-11 Thread jeremy youngs
just get a picture with something of KNOWN size in it raster it in a vector program ( photoshop will do this ) import to autocad as dxf, measure known point to point divide known measurement by measurement made in autocad then rescale to the quotient . trim all but desired out of dxf . import to

Re: [Emc-users] Closed loop stepping system

2013-04-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 April 2013 22:13:10 Jon Elson did opine: Gene Heskett wrote: Somebody thinking outside the box, and making perfect sense. The only fly in the soup is the 10,000 step encoder, and servicing it at 200 rpS to get that 12,000 rpms If you run a stepper motor at 12,000 RPM, it

Re: [Emc-users] A project I want to do on a CNC mill

2013-04-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
This seems to have been recently scanned, found it on Wikipedia. Isogrid hadn't turned up in my previous searches for this. Isogrid Design Handbook, NASA CR-124075, McDonnell Douglas, 1973 http://femci.gsfc.nasa.gov/Isogrid/NASA-CR-124075_Isogrid_Design.pdf And skipping through a tone of

Re: [Emc-users] Poor CV

2013-04-11 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 4/11/2013 6:56 PM, Kenneth Lerman wrote: I don't think this is rocket science. (Having worked on the Lunar Module project, I have a chance of recognizing rocket science.) Come on, Ken, the rocket-science part is dead easy. When you say F=ma you've said it all. Rocket engineering, on the

Re: [Emc-users] A project I want to do on a CNC mill

2013-04-11 Thread jeremy youngs
IT LOOKS TREMENDOUSLY STRONG AND AGREE IT COULD BE USEFUL On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote: This seems to have been recently scanned, found it on Wikipedia. Isogrid hadn't turned up in my previous searches for this. Isogrid Design Handbook, NASA

Re: [Emc-users] Which mini ITX board to choose?

2013-04-11 Thread Dave
On 4/9/2013 12:06 PM, Jon Elson wrote: --- On Tue, 4/9/13, Viesturs Lācisviesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: clip It has been discussed many times on this list that there is only one or two pci-to-parport cards out there that do actually work in EPP mode. All the others do so only

Re: [Emc-users] A project I want to do on a CNC mill

2013-04-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I've found an error in one of the dimensions. The radius of the points of the triangles is given as 0.228 inch but that's impossible with the diameter of the holes at 0.438. Fitting a 0.228 radius tangent to the 0.070 thick bars makes it intersect the holes. Oops! Someone didn't sanity check

Re: [Emc-users] Closed loop stepping system

2013-04-11 Thread Jon Elson
Gene Heskett wrote: And I never considered the iron loses Jon, but you are dead on. Mariss Freimanis of Gecko describes some torture tests he did years ago and reported this. I make affordable servo amps for brushless motors, and have one on my minimill. You do need to get rotor

Re: [Emc-users] Closed loop stepping system

2013-04-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 April 2013 00:56:36 Jon Elson did opine: Gene Heskett wrote: And I never considered the iron loses Jon, but you are dead on. Mariss Freimanis of Gecko describes some torture tests he did years ago and reported this. Humm, now that you mention that, I read something similar on

[Emc-users] Skylab isogrid shape files to download.

2013-04-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Here's the files to download. http://www.PartsByEMC.com/pub/Skylab-isogrid-panel.jpg http://www.PartsByEMC.com/pub/Skylab-isogrid-unit.zip 3D Formats included, COB, IGS, DXF, SAT 2D Format DWG I made one star unit with the arms long enough to overlap. There's a text file in the ZIP with some