Re: [Emc-users] 5i25 miss-behaving

2015-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 November 2015 12:02:27 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings, I hope Peter is about; > > I have smashed up the brass plate I use for tool length sensing, twice > today, because the 5i25.0.gpio.003_in is not seeing a probe contact. > > Worse yet, it seems to be intermittent, working well

Re: [Emc-users] 5i25 miss-behaving

2015-11-12 Thread andy pugh
On 12 November 2015 at 21:44, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Checking the status in showconfig, it (gpio.003) is an input. And I >> do not believe I have a separate pullup on the line, that card is >> AFAIK, doing that 3.3 volts. Any pullups I would have installed would >> have been

Re: [Emc-users] 5i25 miss-behaving

2015-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 November 2015 17:07:01 andy pugh wrote: > On 12 November 2015 at 21:44, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Checking the status in showconfig, it (gpio.003) is an input. And > >> I do not believe I have a separate pullup on the line, that card is > >> AFAIK, doing that

Re: [Emc-users] 5i25 miss-behaving

2015-11-12 Thread Michał Geszkiewicz
W dniu 12.11.2015 o 22:44, Gene Heskett pisze: > On Thursday 12 November 2015 12:02:27 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greetings, I hope Peter is about; >> >> I have smashed up the brass plate I use for tool length sensing, twice >> today, because the 5i25.0.gpio.003_in is not seeing a probe contact.

Re: [Emc-users] 5i25 miss-behaving

2015-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 November 2015 16:51:26 Michał Geszkiewicz wrote: > W dniu 12.11.2015 o 22:44, Gene Heskett pisze: > > On Thursday 12 November 2015 12:02:27 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greetings, I hope Peter is about; > >> > >> I have smashed up the brass plate I use for tool length sensing, > >>

Re: [Emc-users] Hardinge Conquest 42 Conversion

2015-11-12 Thread Jon Elson
On 11/12/2015 05:47 PM, Jeremy Jones wrote: > Thinking about picking up a Conquest 42. The machine is supposedly in good > shape but the Fanuc OT control might be shot and the motherboard would need > to replaced. Will try to resurrect but I'm thinking linuxcnc anyway since I > did a Bridgport

[Emc-users] 5i25 miss-behaving

2015-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings, I hope Peter is about; I have smashed up the brass plate I use for tool length sensing, twice today, because the 5i25.0.gpio.003_in is not seeing a probe contact. Worse yet, it seems to be intermittent, working well after the first such incident. Changed tools, and went to

Re: [Emc-users] Turning digital outputs on G-code move without slowing down

2015-11-12 Thread Robert Ellenberg
It just means that for specific moves that involve ABC axes, the planner will fall back to parabolic blends (i.e. 2.6-style blending). This means that continuous contouring using the A axis will be slower than the equivalent 3-axis path, if the program has a lot of short segments. In your case,

[Emc-users] Hardinge Conquest 42 Conversion

2015-11-12 Thread Jeremy Jones
Thinking about picking up a Conquest 42. The machine is supposedly in good shape but the Fanuc OT control might be shot and the motherboard would need to replaced. Will try to resurrect but I'm thinking linuxcnc anyway since I did a Bridgport recently. I've seen a lot of CHNC conversions but