Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i25 with Generic stepper board

, Curtis Dutton curtd...@gmail.com wrote: I recently received my new 5i25 card. I'm using it to replace software stepping on a 3 Axis machine. It is very basic, 3 stepper drivers. 1 probe in port. 3 sets of limit/home switches where each set is shared for an axis and the limit

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i25 with Generic stepper board

Thanks all for you help. I was able to configure this fairly easily. The only issue I had was initially I was setting the maxaccel and maxvel values on the hardware steppers. This was causing joint following errors. I found that if I would set the following error (FERROR) absurdly high like 100 it

[Emc-users] Leadshine ACS806 - Large f-error at higher speeds - what is acceptable?

I recently installed an ACS806 brushless drive along with a BLM57130 leadshine motor. The motor is a 130W motor with a 4000ppr encoder. The controller is a step and direction type, with the encoder feedback passed back through to linuxcnc via a mesa 5i25 and a 7i86s.. So I'm using the drive to

Re: [Emc-users] Leadshine ACS806 - Large f-error at higher speeds - what is acceptable?

? Thanks, Curtis On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: On 05/01/2014 06:22 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 30 April 2014 19:37, Curtis Dutton curtd...@gmail.com wrote: The motor is a 130W motor 1.5mm at around 12000mm/min. That seems like a very small motor

Re: [Emc-users] Leadshine ACS806 - Large f-error at higher speeds - what is acceptable?

the machine should behave better than it used to. Thanks! Curt On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday 01 May 2014 13:42:08 Curtis Dutton did opine: Ok this makes sense. Thanks all for your explanations. I guess I just wasn't sure what was reasonable

Re: [Emc-users] Leadshine ACS806 - Large f-error at higher speeds - what is acceptable?

different values of Ki. On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: On Thu, 1 May 2014, Curtis Dutton wrote: Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 18:56:23 -0400 From: Curtis Dutton curtd...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] Leadshine ACS806 - Large f-error at higher speeds - what is acceptable?

Today I received a second AC806 drive in the mail. It is a V1 ACS806. The V1 is simpler to tune. It only has a current loop Kp and Ki, as well as position loop Kp, Ki, and Kd. I tried that on the same motor that the AVS806V2 is having trouble with. Following error is now down to under 20 counts

[Emc-users] What do you know about Precix Performa

So I recently came across an oportunity to purchase a 2004 Precix Performa. This picture is almost identical to what I was able to see. http://www.precix.com/CNC_routers_performa.htm It has what seems to be ground ball screws, with rotating ball nuts, servo motors, and a tool changing spindle

Re: [Emc-users] What do you know about Precix Performa

to close the clamp. I think that those plates were about 1-1/2 thick. According to the current owner it weighs about 6000lbs. On Aug 3, 2014 7:55 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 August 2014 00:24, Curtis Dutton curtd...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious as to anyone out there that has

Re: [Emc-users] Closed Loop Step/Dir Servo Driver Configuration.

I use Step/Dir servo controllers with a 5i25 configured to use stepgens. The encoder feedback run back to linuxcnc. Linuxcnc watches for following error and faults if it gets out of hand. My results have been great so far. It's a bit of a pain to load up tuner software to tune the drivers

[Emc-users] NSK vt150RAS1

I just picked up an NSK 6 4th axis. It has an air powered brake in it. It appears that it has something like a megatorque motor in it as it rotates very smoothly, without any gear sounds. Overall it is in fair shape and seems good and tight. My cheapo dial indicators didn't show any run-out or

Re: [Emc-users] NSK vt150RAS1

phase AC motor with U,V,B windings? The inside looks like a giant stepper motor but I'm fairly sure its a servo and not a stepper. Has anyone ever messed around with one of these? Thanks, Curtis On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Curtis Dutton curtd...@gmail.com wrote: I just picked up

Re: [Emc-users] NSK vt150RAS1

OOps I forgot to name all of the wires. A+ - Motor winding phase A+ A- B+ B- C+ C- REA - Resolver phase A excitation signal REB - Resolver phase B excitation signal REC - Resolver phase C excitation signal REO - Resolver excitation signal common I know that there is only continuity between A+

Re: [Emc-users] NSK vt150RAS1

Do you think im better of trying to get ahold of a compatible megatorque driver. Im seeing them around on ebay for what looks like 400 - 500. On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Curtis Dutton wrote: Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:00:39 -0400 From: Curtis Dutton curtd...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine

[Emc-users] Harmonic Drive HA-600-2 Driver Manual

I recently acquired an HA-600-2 servo driver as well as a servo actuator that accompanies it. The only trouble, it didn't come with any wires, and no manual. I can't find it on the net and so far the HarmonicDrive people haven't gotten back to me about my request. Does anyone happen to have a pdf

Re: [Emc-users] Maximum rate I can drive my steppers

If they have tail shafts, cheap encoders from US digital mounted on the back of them are the best solution.You can tie the f-error back into linuxcnc so you know exactly how much error has accumulated and can fault if its too much. I've gone through this very thing, and ultimately went to servos.

Re: [Emc-users] 7i64 suddenly missing

. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: On Tue, 21 Jul 2015, Curtis Dutton wrote: Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 06:14:46 -0400 From: Curtis Dutton curtd...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users

[Emc-users] 7i64 suddenly missing

I have a 5i25 running with 2 7i85s cards. I also have a 7i64 for my io needs. Today I shut down linuxcnc and restarted. The 7i64 is no longer recognized. Are there any debug settings i can use to more details as to the possible problem? The 7i64 does have power. Thanks, Curt

Re: [Emc-users] Harmonic Drive HA-600-2 Driver Manual

their actuators but never had a chance to test one. Cheers, Andrew 2015-07-25 1:22 GMT+03:00 Curtis Dutton curtd...@gmail.com: I recently acquired an HA-600-2 servo driver as well as a servo actuator that accompanies it. The only trouble, it didn't come with any wires, and no manual. I can't

Re: [Emc-users] JA branch is merged into master?

I updates my machine to run with the latest JA13 branch. Debian Jessie, kernel: 3.4-9-rtai-686-pae It has dual X axis servos and a rotary axis. I've run a few programs and everything seems great so far. On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:07 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 29 April 2016

Re: [Emc-users] Curing Oven

Thank you for the suggestion. I will definitly be using a thermal breaker on a latched circuit physical contactor (an estop circuit) On Aug 2, 2016 3:07 PM, "John Kasunich" <jmkasun...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016, at 02:56 PM, Curtis Dutton wrote: > > Hi

[Emc-users] Curing Oven

Hi everyone, I'm in the middle of designing a paint curing oven for my shop. I am going to control it with linuxcnc. The oven only runs at 120 Degress Farenheight ~ 50 Deg Celsius So far I plan on using LM35's for temperature reading. A 120V 1500W heating element driven with a solid state

Re: [Emc-users] calling hm2_..write + hm2_..read at higher rates

Ok I did try using the read_gpio and write_gpio. The raster component reads the stepgen-fb position and then updates its output power based up on that, which is wired to a pwmgen. Would read_gpio and write_gpio affect the pwmgen output? On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Peter C. Wallace

Re: [Emc-users] calling hm2_..write + hm2_..read at higher rates

dge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 February 2017 at 18:28, Curtis Dutton <curtd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As part of my laser engraver implementation that I have been working on, > I > > have a raster component that needs to vary the pwmgen output at higher > rate >

Re: [Emc-users] calling hm2_..write + hm2_..read at higher rates

, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Peter C. Wallace <p...@mesanet.com> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2017, Curtis Dutton wrote: > > Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 15:55:32 -0500 >> From: Curtis Dutton <curtd...@gmail.com> >> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" >> &

Re: [Emc-users] calling hm2_..write + hm2_..read at higher rates

Just to correct my last email... the servo period is running at 10Khz not 100Khz Thanks again, Curt On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Curtis Dutton <curtd...@gmail.com> wrote: > So Sebastian's suggestion works without a problem. Thanks! With a 100Khz > servo period thin

[Emc-users] calling hm2_..write + hm2_..read at higher rates

As part of my laser engraver implementation that I have been working on, I have a raster component that needs to vary the pwmgen output at higher rate than the servo period. The math I'm using to determine the speed is the scan speed. So for instance a 6000mm/min scan speed, with an update rate

Re: [Emc-users] Cleaning Carbide Bits -plywood gue.

This works very well for me. But the stuff is NASTY! http://www.kleanstrip.com/product/naked-gun-spray-gun-paint-remover On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:23 AM, wrote: > > > Was gonna say

[Emc-users] Mesa 8i20 as a spindle drive

Does anyone know if it would be possible to use a Mesa 8i20 for a 3 phase spindle motor? No encoder just for a router. Thanks, Curt ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 8i20 as a spindle drive

I'll be controlling it via hostmot2. I just wasn't sure if the driver could be commanded without an encoder. On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 2:05 PM andy pugh wrote: > On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 18:09, Curtis Dutton wrote: > > > Does anyone know if it would be possible to use a Mesa 8i20 f

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 8i20 as a spindle drive

Ok well I'll try it out thanks! On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 3:36 PM andy pugh wrote: > On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 20:17, Curtis Dutton wrote: > > > I'll be controlling it via hostmot2. > > > I was assuming that. > > > > I just wasn't sure if the driver could &g

[Emc-users] ADC - realtime for load cell

I have a pet project I'm starting that will involve reading a load cell in as near as real time as possible and using that input for servo control. I plan on using mesa hardware to interface to the equipment. Does anyone know of a nice way to interface hotsmot2 to a load cell? I would like a

Re: [Emc-users] ADC - realtime for load cell

that would allow me to communicate with the spi device. On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 9:36 AM Curtis Dutton wrote: > Chris thanks for the info. > > I'm not exactly certain at this point what precision I need. I'll be > determining that experimentally later. I will keep in mind what you

Re: [Emc-users] ADC - realtime for load cell

. > > 22 bits is better than one part per million. Do you really need that? It > will be hard to isolate all of the electrical and mechanical noise > especially > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:26 PM Curtis Dutton wrote: > > > I have a pet project I'm starting tha

Re: [Emc-users] ADC - realtime for load cell

ven with lower 16-bit precision, the most important part of > the design is the analog portion that sits between the load cell and the > A/D converter. > > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 6:38 AM Curtis Dutton wrote: > > > Chris thanks for the info. > > > >

[Emc-users] holzher router

Hey everyone. Not much to do with linuxcnc. Other than that I make my living with linuxcnc. Recently a friend of mine purchased a used holzher cnc router. He asked me to get it turned on and running. After a long long day playing with it, reading mixed german and english dialogues etc... we were

Re: [Emc-users] ADC - realtime for load cell

I appreciate the help and information. One last question before I go out and try this. I found a servo motor with a serial encoder. What interface board should I use to read that if I were using an 8i20 to power the servo? On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 9:06 AM Les Newell wrote: > If you are trying

Re: [Emc-users] ADC - realtime for load cell

t. It is kind of like the load cell idea but you use > a spring scale. > > Another way that is not quite to accurate is to measure the current in the > motor. Current is proportional to torque. > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 4:39 PM Curtis Dutton wrote: > > > my experiment i

[Emc-users] Ethercat machine - PC recommendations?

Ok so a friend of mine has tasked me to convert his machine to Linuxcnc. All of the control components are ethercat. Are there any restrictions or recommendations about motherboards or NIC cards that I should stick with? Thanks, Curt ___ Emc-users

[Emc-users] Ethercat...twincat....endianess

I have successfully built and configured master, ethercat drivers and linuxcnc-ethercat and applied the pll timing patch on debian buster. Converting and existing machine. Ethercat working, all io boards talkingEthercat here we go! The next step was to configure the SDO's on the beckhoff

Re: [Emc-users] Ethercat...twincat....endianess

:45 AM Curtis Dutton wrote: > I have successfully built and configured master, ethercat drivers and > linuxcnc-ethercat and applied the pll timing patch on debian buster. > > Converting and existing machine. Ethercat working, all io boards > talkingEthercat here we go! &g

[Emc-users] Yaskawa 20-bit Sigma V Incremental encoders

I'm trying to run some Yaskawa Sigma V motors with a 5i25, 7i74 and 8i20. I want to read the encoder of the motor with hostmot2 SSI. I have all of my firmware set up, but I just cannot find the encoder protocol out in the wild. Does anyone know it? Also I would like to start a wiki page that

Re: [Emc-users] Yaskawa 20-bit Sigma V Incremental encoders

ют. 2020, 17:04 користувач Curtis Dutton > пише: > > > I'm trying to run some Yaskawa Sigma V motors with a 5i25, 7i74 and > 8i20. I > > want to read the encoder of the motor with hostmot2 SSI. > > > > I have all of my firmware set up, but I just cannot find the en

Re: [Emc-users] Yaskawa 20-bit Sigma V Incremental encoders

wrote: > > > > On 22. Feb 2020, at 19:30, Curtis Dutton wrote: > > > > Rene thanks, > > > > This will help a lot. I'll study that implementation. > > > > I would like to get my 5i25 to be able to process the encoder data. > > > > Is the prot

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with 8i20 settings.

I got time to get back to my machine and indeed it seems to be working much better now. I tried current-maxlim = 100 current-minlim = -100 current-scalemax = 100 and things are much snappier. On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 4:47 PM Curtis Dutton wrote: > Yes the current is set to 1 or -1 wh

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with 8i20 settings.

) current-maxlim = 100 current-minlim = -100 current-scalemax = 100 Thanks, Curt On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 4:10 PM andy pugh wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 17:56, Curtis Dutton wrote: > > > I've tried to look for some documentation explaining exactly how those > > values work

[Emc-users] Trouble with 8i20 settings.

I believe that I'm having trouble understanding how to set an 8i20 up properly. It is connected to a 2.5KW 200V AC servo which can take a maximum current of 44.5 amps. Maximum speed of 5000RPM. It is running a lathe spindle. I am able to get it to spin up but it seems a bit sluggish. I also

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.8.0 is released

/2.8/html/getting-started/getting-linuxcnc.html > > > > > > Many thanks to the following contributors, and to anyone else who has > > submitted work or code to the project. > > Alec Ari > > Alexander Brock > > Alex Joni > > Alex Wigen > > Al Smart >

[Emc-users] What type of gang lathe tool holder is this?

The old lathe retrofit project is coming together. This is the machine that I ended up using Yaskawa Sigma 5 servos with 8i20 drives. It is an old old Miyano gang lathe. Here is a picture of a tool holder that came with it. I can't figure out what it is and I was wondering if anyone knows what it

[Emc-users] Lathe Spindle Rebuild Quistions

So after finishing the retrofit of the old Miyano gang lathe the spindle bearings are shot. You can grab the spindle nose and push it side to side about .0005" to .001". The cut quality is also fairly bad. Just cutting a spring pass on an aluminum bar shows a lot of chatter like marks. I can also

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Spindle Rebuild Quistions

s, > all the while keeping an eye on the temps. > > Definitely *don’t* spin it up right away to “see how it runs.” > > > On May 27, 2020, at 1:32 PM, Curtis Dutton wrote: > > > > Yes that youtube video seems to be very helpful. I've been watching it > for > &

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Spindle Rebuild Quistions

ing for the axial load. > > Leonardo Marsaglia > > El mié., 27 may. 2020 14:51, Jon Elson escribió: > > > On 05/27/2020 12:18 PM, Curtis Dutton wrote: > > > So after finishing the retrofit of the old Miyano gang lathe the > spindle > > > bearings are shot. You c

Re: [Emc-users] What type of gang lathe tool holder is this?

Apologies. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A4zx2k4i04BCbur2fUuA0I2t8Df3C7TY/view?usp=sharing On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 10:45 AM andy pugh wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 15:35, Curtis Dutton wrote: > > > Here is a picture of a tool holder that came with it. > > I don't thin

Re: [Emc-users] SSD reliability

I use SSD's in everything. I have had 1 fail. It was an A-DATA brand. I have an intel somewhere that is OK and majority Samsung drives, both M2 format and SATA. I have deployed quite a few of them for Customers in desktops and servers. Probably a total of 30 or so. No failures yet (Fingers

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Spindle Rebuild Quistions

ontinued to run very smooth and quiet. After a test cut last night the parts are actually round now. Went from around .0005" out of round to at most .5" out of round and surface finish seems much improved. Thanks again all! -Curtis On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 7:25 PM Curtis Dutton

Re: [Emc-users] Advice on Tuning Servo System

I'm not familiar with the Pico interface. Basee upon the docs it looks to be a velocity mode stepgen. I have a mesa velocity mode Stephen to servo system on my router. This site was helpful to me getting this set up. https://gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/tuning/servo.html. If I recall I had to tune the

[Emc-users] Best Mesa Thermistor Reading Combo

I'm upgrading the old spindle motor for my Fadal VMC 15 rebuild project. I found a new old stock 11 KW 1RPM Fadal spindle motor that I'll be installing in it's stead. A06B-1446-B100#0102. It has an MZi encoder and a thermistor in the motor. I would like to integrate temperature monitoring.

Re: [Emc-users] Best Mesa Thermistor Reading Combo

Armed with an infrared thermometer and lincurve sounds like I can get a nice solution. It doesn't have to be very accurate...just "stop before the motor melts". Which being that I"m cutting teensy pieces of aluminum, will probably never happen. But I tend to need guard rails sometimes! On Thu,

[Emc-users] Fiber laser power requirements - any experience out there?

I have an ongoing job engraving stainless steel plaques that are at most 4.5" square. Currently we are doing them in the CNC router. Very simple markings just digits and letters. Engraved to about a depth of 10 to 15 thousands of an inch with a spot drill. This is becoming a fairly regular job

Re: [Emc-users] CANopen on LinuxCNC

This sounds like the ethercat driver already does most of what you are discussing. It would be a good place to start if you planned on building something. On Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 2:24 PM John Dammeyer wrote: > > From: Nicklas SB Karlsson [mailto:nk@nksb.online] > > > > Den 2021-01-23 kl. 01:31,

Re: [Emc-users] jerk control

t's the goal? To traverse the path as accurately as possible or to > reduce the shaking from sudden speed changes (the jerk)? > > Mostly just confused. > John > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Curtis Dutton [mailto:curtd...@gmail.com]

Re: [Emc-users] jerk control

I have a desire to implement this. My business is in need of another cnc router and I will be building as high speed of a machine as I can afford. It is going to be a dual table but a horizontal spindle. 1m x 1m working envelope. I plan on using linear motors. It will require jerk limiting to

Re: [Emc-users] jerk control

So for feed override. I think just having the planner generate a blended path using the "max' override speed. thus guaranteeing that no constraints could be violated for any range of the feed override. Otherwise you would need to regenerate the path based upon override speed as it changes thus

Re: [Emc-users] jerk control

That thread leads to this. https://githubhelp.com/pantor/ruckig Pretty interdasting! On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 12:36 PM Andy Pugh wrote: > > >> It will require jerk limiting to really get the value out of the > machine. > > There is a jerk-limiting component in the forum > > >

Re: [Emc-users] jerk control

I'm not sure about all this yet, brainstorming here... After looking at TinyG code for handling jerk limitation in the joint control it appears that they are using the forward physics equations and numerically integrating to avoid violations. Since numerical integration needs to be used for jerk

Re: [Emc-users] jerk control

Are you using any G64 P- Q- path blending? On Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 11:19 PM andrew beck wrote: > hey guys > > I am sitting here watching my cnc mill atm its shaking quite a bit > acceleration is 600mm/sec2 which is not that high i think. compared to > every other cnc mill i have used with a

Re: [Emc-users] jerk control

So for an abort I think would be still following the proscribed machine path in a coordinated fashion but stop as fast as possible within constraints. Sort of like dragging feed override to 0 as quickly as possible without violating constraints. For an e-stop it will be an uncoordinated stop.

[Emc-users] Mesa 8i20 - braking resistor sharing

Is it possible to share a braking resistor among multiple 8i20 drives? 3 identical motors. Thanks, Curtis ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] Heidenhain IBV 610 troubles

It is an incremental. Magnetic sensor. Gear tooth with I think 256 teeth. One sin/cos cycle per tooth. On Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 10:56 PM Ralph Stirling wrote: > A lot of very high resolution, and older encoders have > sine wave gratings, which give sine and cosine waveforms > on the A and B

[Emc-users] Heidenhain IBV 610 troubles

So I have a fanuc spindle motor with an MZ hall effect encoder on it. I'm attempting to interface that via an IBV 610 to a quadrature encoder. I have no experience with these and I'm trying to figure out what is going wrong. The encoder runs on 5v and has A,A* and B,B* signals. the a*,b* pins

Re: [Emc-users] Heidenhain IBV 610 troubles

more tomorrow On Sun, Sep 19, 2021, 12:55 AM Curtis Dutton wrote: > It is an incremental. Magnetic sensor. Gear tooth with I think 256 teeth. > One sin/cos cycle per tooth. > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 10:56 PM Ralph Stirling < > ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu> wrote: &g

Re: [Emc-users] Heidenhain IBV 610 troubles

r if it's an issue > with the signals not being +/- with respect to ground. Is it a Heidenhein > encoder? > Eric Keller > Boalsburg, Pennsylvania > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 11:50 AM Curtis Dutton wrote: > > > Ok after thinking about it more, the interpolate is expecting t

Re: [Emc-users] Emergeny stop, and maybe normal stop

I think the main thing about estop is that A. When hitting E-Stop all movement stops ASAP. B. There is no chance things start moving again after the E-stop button is reset. Typically a separate "start" button must be pressed before things may start again. I recommend that these circuits be

Re: [Emc-users] The Code Of Conduct Fait Accompli

I find it curious that we have a COC followed up by the "master" question in short succession. Am I mistaken that these events as somehow related? Just asking for a friend. I cannot think of a recent time that I have read an email on emcdev or emcusers that I thought to myself "something must be

Re: [Emc-users] Heidenhain IBV 610 troubles

I ended up finding a good deal on a Motrona si251 interpolation unit. It was a little bit more than the IBV but not much. It worked on the first try. Documentation was much better and overall seems more flexible and more compact. -Curtis On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 2:18 PM John Figie wrote: >

[Emc-users] Remap toolchange - run to line wants to change through each tool

I'm running master. I have M6 remapped in GCode running on a VMC. When I restart a program, the machine wants to cycle through each of the M6 tool change commands in the gcode file until picking back up on the line that I start it on. So say I have tools 1 - 5 in a program.It performs

[Emc-users] 6i25 PC spontaneous reboot

So I had a power outage last week and it took out the PC of my cnc router when the power returned. PS died and took the MOBO with it. It was 7 years old so not a big deal. I upgraded to an MSI 320M PRO-VH with an AMD Athalon 3000G. I was previously running a 5i25 but this board doesn't have a

Re: [Emc-users] 6i25 PC spontaneous reboot

for as long as I can remember! Thanks! On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 12:07 PM Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2022, Curtis Dutton wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 11:44:54 -0400 > > From: Curtis Dutton > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"

Re: [Emc-users] PCI-E adapter to PCI?

I just recently had a mobo go out on me with a machine that uses the pci mesa card. I purchased this... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09XJQHN2H?psc=1=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details along with a core i3 processor with integrated graphics. It is working fine for me but it caused me some trouble to

Re: [Emc-users] Tool Height Sensor Position

I attached one to a magnetic base. On Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 10:57 PM John Dammeyer wrote: > A few photos of your mounted setup would be really helpful. If you can't > post them to the list just pm me. > Thanks > John > > > -Original Message- > > From: Feral Engineer

Re: [Emc-users] Drilling holes in the back of a stepper motor

On a past life before I started using servos I had attached encoders to my steppers to stop the machine when steps were missed. I used us digital encoders that came with adhesive backed mounts from the factory. They worked swimmingly. I still have one in the "spare parts" room. The encoder is