Does it need cleaning? It might be a simple fix to spray some "contact
cleaner" inside of the pot (often you can spray some in where the contacts
and back cover don't quite meet)
Might be worth the try?
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 10:53 AM grumpy--- via Emc-users <
emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wro
Hi Bruce;
They are either dinosaurs, ref:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-developer-reveals-linux-is-now-more-used-on-azure-than-windows-server/
or they are using DirectX, rather than OpenGL.
I did spend a *little* bit of time on the HTML5 standards group, and was
interested to hear of
Jim - thanks for progressing with these videos.
I wonder if it might be an idea to get a mic that you clip to your clothes,
as in the intro there's a lot of echo.
Keep going! John.
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Just FYI - about a year ago or so I purchased from Jeff @xylotex a BBBlack
and DB-25 cape - ran my Unimat SL CNC'd lathe just fine (feeding a spare
Gecko G540, 2 axes of which were unused)
BBBoard from Xylotex came with LinuxCNC Machinekit on a little SDCard. An
out of the box solution.
On Fri,
Danny, have one, have homing, zeroing axes, GOTO zero, manual spindle
machining spindle and feed speeds.
Not near machine ATM, but can send config files if you wish later.
Keep at it, it works well with linuxcnc
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Just FYI - I don't know if I have seen this on this list but on hackaday.com,
there is a post about Andy and his Ner-A-Car bike, and LinuxCNC.
http://hackaday.com/2016/04/07/1921-ner-a-car-motorcycle-reborn-with-epic-parts-remanufacture/
Good for you Andy!
John A. Stewart.
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Hi all;
Last June, I attended the CNC Workshop in Dearborn Michigan, and gave two
talks on LinuxCNC.
(I have the notes up at cnc-for-model-engineers.blogspot.com if you want to
see what I presented)
It was a good time, with great people. It was worth the 8 hour each way
drive.
This year, I'm in
Hi Jim and others:
http://www.thecncworkshop.com/
I found that each and every one of the attendees and exhibitors and vendors
were down to earth, nice people. It was a pleasure to be there. Techshop
Detroit was very accommodating.
Ron Ginger was also a pleasure to meet in person.
I did have my
Why don't you guys meet up at the CNC Workshop, in Dearborn Michigan?
It is at the Tech Shop Detroit, which is a very interesting place (as is
the Henry Ford museum, and Greenfield Village, almost adjacent to Tech Shop)
The CNC Workshop could still do with some LinuxCNC discussions/seminars,
and
Andy;
I rejected that idea on the previous lathe because of the tailstock.
> I hadn't considered it on this lathe but it might be the answer. I
> just have to remember to move the tailstock out of the way.
>
I expect to put an estop switch on my tailstock, and home close to the
"tailstock end" of
Well, OnShape is available for Linux. I am currently figuring that package
out. Not sure about CAM, but will try CamBam on the output.
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On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> You are dreaming John, it has 3, maybe 6mm studs screwed into the back of
> the chuck, which fit thru matching holes in the spindles flange & you
> have to putz around 20 minutes a nut to get the nut started straight,
> because theres not a
Agree that LinuxCNC is fantastic.
What gets me is the number of Mach3 users - why don't they switch? Is it
that they are (essentially) computer illiterate, and know only Windows
(barely), or is it just momentum in the home hobbyist field??
(I'm lucky in that I was "into" wire-wrapping computers a
Ron - as usual from you, very good comments.
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Ron Ginger
wrote:
>
> I am happy to be among the group that likes to play with my control
> software, but I am sure that puts me, and most of the people reading
> this, into a very small community- maybe this is some
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Ron Ginger
wrote:
> >> > On 28 August 2016 at 00:18, Jon Elson wrote:
> >>> >> Oh, they have the share data if you click the link for the
> >>> >> whole survey. VERY impressive numbers for LinuxCNC!
> >> > All based on a total of approx 18 responses from LinuxCN
> >> I'm afraid the technical details are above my pay grade. I can however
> >> help you with Mesa cards that relate to Linuxcnc.
>
>
Just got the 5i25/7i76 plug and go kit from Mesaus.com, shipped to Canada
via USPS/Canada Post, and it all worked flawlessly.
As an aside - I really like the USPS
Danny - not an answer, but I do find sometimes that my USB MPG will cause
that to happen.
It is on an older version of LinuxCNC that I should update sometime, hoping
that a bug fix has cured it.
Sorry for no answer, but at least you know you are not the only one. ;-)
John.
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Russell - is there a "z" axis on your machine?
John.
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Russell Brown wrote:
> Quoth andy pugh.
> >On 12 October 2016 at 08:49, Russell Brown wrote:
> >> If I click 'OK' linuxcnc loads but the initial X & Y show as 4.23e+289
> >> and 2.95e+240 and axis.ngc is
Peter;
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Peter Blodow wrote:
> when I started listening to this list, I was intrigued by the
> possibilties of using ordinary "left-over" desk top PCs (which were
> getting very cheap at the time) to do extraordinary work with ordinary
> out-of-time machinery. This
Hi all;
Back to my CNC lathe project; it has sat dormant for a few years now.
Opinions wanted:
The VFD suggests 10a external fuses, plus a line filter. I'm running this
on 240v, over here in North America.
Are 10A slow blow 250v glass fuses ok for this application? Is it overkill
to fuse both
n
1 machine at a time, so one 15A 240v circuit has done me well for a couple
of decades.
Maybe I'm over thinking this...
John.
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 8:59 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 1 November 2016 at 12:33, John Alexander Stewart
> wrote:
> > The VFD suggests 10a external f
By the way - this is all good. I've dug out my ATS-667s from my storage
box, as this winter's project is to continue the long -dormant CNC lathe
conversion.
VFD is done, now slowly working on the spindle sensors, so great timing
Gene!
(slowly == work and life and family get in the way, but progre
Kirk - why replace the tailstock? With gang tooling, you'll be able to make
lots of things...
(I'm -slowly- CNCing a smaller 8x18 lathe)
John.
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Interesting - thanks, and tell us how you get on with them.
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Hi all;
I am restarting an older CNC lathe conversion - an Emco Compact-8, fwiw.
I have the 5i25 and 7i76, and 6 ats-667 sensors for spindle. (6, because if
I only ordered 3, I'd end up breaking one, and shipping is expensive...)
Any wiring issues I should be aware of? Field voltage is about 8v
Thanks David and Gene;
Thanks for the responses.
1) The stiffness of mounting is one that I had not really thought much
about but makes sense.
2) a higher tooth count gear is something I'll look at this AM. Have lots
of old gears kicking about - and, the idea of adding a bit of steel gooped
to t
Regarding the g0704 z axis and the automation direct 120v system, could
someone post a link to the product?
All in this thread an interesting discussion, thanks - John.
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Hi Gene;
Regarding the DM1182 - Ok - I see what it is you are doing. Very
interesting - I've been out of the loop for a year or two and getting back
into it.
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Hi John;
Absolutely - have one on one of my mills. I added it what must be a couple
of years ago; I believe that the "XHC-04" is what it is called.
I've got spindle control, jogging, zero setting, and probably other things
- not all the icons are in use, but more than enough to use it 90% of the
John;
I could give you my machine config, but it might be confusing, as it is not
"textbook optimal"
Start here by googling "linuxcnc xhc-hb04" and see what you get.
Basically:
1)
loadusr -W xhc-hb04 -I xhc-hb04-layout2.ini -s 4 -H
There are at least 2 button sets, mine is "layout2"
2)
# Home
does "lspci" show ports?
You may wish to "lspci > withports.txt" remove them (or, if on-board,
disable in BIOS) reboot, "lspci > noports.txt", and do a diff between the
two text files, to help see what the system thinks.
John.
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yej
Hi all;
Here's a neat little page:
http://funofdiy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/a-raspberry-pi-controlled-mini-laser.html
Wonder how it would run from LinuxCNC? Same "issues" with path acceleration
values, and so forth?
Hmmm… ;-)
John A. Stewart.
-
Sebastian;
I have a little CNC'd Unimat lathe that I hope to pull off the shelf and
get the Mesa card in it's computer configured.
I hope to have time over the next week and a half to do this, but we'll see
- it's a "bad" time of year for committing to workshop projects.
Thanks in advance to all
Rob;
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote:
> I spent some time going through the math behind it, and I think blending
> between linear moves with ABCUVW motion is feasible, though it will take a
> a bunch of new data structures to store a 9D vector.
>
> There are two big chall
Hello all;
2014 sees me finishing up my lathe conversion to CNC. (Emco Compact-8).
I'm a bit "confused" about spindle sensors, and I do see a few different
designs.
Question - if you had to do it again, what would YOU do for a modern
spindle encoder?
(trying to learn from those who have gone be
Hi Andy;
Thank you for the response - I have seen your little 7x lathe cnc
conversion on a few places - well done.
I'll readily admit to being a bit "newby" in encoders.
The Compact-8 does have a 40 tooth gear on the spindle. Right now spindle
pulley is off, because was doing some measurements o
Hi Gene - by:
John: You need finer grained control than an index generator will ever
> allow if you ever intend to use the G33.1 or G76 thread cutting on the
> lathe, and once I had that working, I don't know why I ever considered not
> doing it.
I presume you mean the one pulse per rev that M
I like all the ideas and suggestions here. Many thanks to all who responded.
I think I'll try these automotive gear tooth sensors, and see how that
works, Digikey.ca has them available, so I can order them fairly locally.
Just FYI, I do like the Acetal nut idea, will try that before going
ball-sc
Hi all;
Just setting the New Years' goals - I liked the reports of the 2013
LinuxCNC get together, and was wondering if anyone had decided to hold the
2014 version?
Thanks - John A. Stewart
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Hi all;
I've got a large bit of steel milling to do, and am changing tools
mid-stream every 1mm or so of depth. (6mm end mills, 12.7mm depth)
Is it possible that the "stop program execution" causes loss of position?
What I'm doing is, when the end mill is close to a point where not much
milling
Sven;
Interesting result - somewhere else I had read about USB devices sometimes
being serial hogs, but to have it affect the latency that much - I'm
surprised!
Thank you for posting your success and outcome.
John.
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Thanks all - ran my machine with tool in air, spindle off, for just over 3
hours, and it lost about 1/2mm in the X direction, so it looks like I'll
have to re-visit the G540 tuning, and so forth.
I had this issue a while ago, and thought that it was solved, but it's
still there, after 3 hours.
(qu
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Neat. The building behind mine @work tests space vehicles, and, for some
of the testing people can not be in the same room, in case of bits flying
off (e.g., program the linear accelerator to simulate an Airiane 5 launch,
and see what happens to the satellite.
Don't think they've dro
Mark - pretty good, but put linuxcnc in the title so people know what it is.
I'd like to get a beaglebone and give it a try - you guys are doing a great
job with this port.
John.
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Hi all; may be off topic, but am wondering about converting my Centec 2B
mill to CNC. X,Y axes are relatively easy; Z is difficult.
Is there any real need to convert the Z axis, assuming that the weight of
the table will keep the backlash to a minimum, or am I way off base here?
Thanks for any ad
> On 02/18/2014 07:59 PM, John Alexander Stewart wrote:
> > Hi all; may be off topic, but am wondering about converting my Centec 2B
> > mill to CNC. X,Y axes are relatively easy; Z is difficult.
> >
> > Is there any real need to convert the Z axis, assuming that the
Jon;
OK, so you want to rig the Z drive to the quill, or the
> knee?
Knee. Apologies for responding before the coffee had kicked in, and my
ability to put thoughts down in text not cranked up.
> I already
> addressed the knee part, so I can pretty much see the quill
> drive
> looks like a rack
Steve - Ah, that's your site - found it recently. ;-)
Although a very usable manual mill, I wouldn't attempt to CNC one. Not
> an easy conversion. More importantly they are a bit "cult" over here and
> fetch premium prices. I did renovate mine fully and repaint it before
> selling it on and I made
John;
I do everything in metric; the Preferences->Preamble, when I change G20 to
G21, and save, it does not seem to have saved next time I run the program.
Still trying to run through this program, but thank you for your efforts -
I think the effort is worth it.
JohnS.
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The link worked just fine, Andy! Thank you - John.
Old iron beats new iron a lot of the time.
> My Harrison conversion uses custom iron castings for the motor mounts etc.
> I went down the path of "how would Harrison have made a CNC mill."
>
> This link might work. (Hard to do on the phone)
>
>
>
I had an issue on my mill - Mesa 5I25 and Gecko G540, where it would loose
steps in the positive X direction. Not much, but a small percentage of
steps.
Turns out I was driving G540 with too narrow pulses, and a small percentage
of the time the Optoisolators on the G540 would miss one of the pulse
Sam, this is really interesting. You have a very creative mind, with this
and your Emco Compact-5 CNC adaptions, etc.
I wonder if your interpretation of Machs' avoidance of acceleration limits
is one potential of the "Mach looses steps" issue that I have read about?
The first time was in a publica
Steve;
Despite what those figures appear to show, Mach's output behaves better
> than LinuxCNC's. It sounds much much smoother. I posted many moons ago
>
Does the TP work change that? Probably makes the old comparison invalid.
> Well done Rob for taking this on and shame to those who buried the
Ok - can anyone remind me *why* the Printrboard is not a good thing to
interface with LinuxCNC?
Background - I have a Printrbot Simple kit that I'm taking away on an
Internet-free weekend, to install. So, I have been installing the software
for slicing and dicing, and for controlling this board.
Michael;
Ah - grbl-like input. Makes sense, and I can see how it would not work so
well for LinuxCNC.
The question, then, is how come Mach3 can have USB cabling, but LinuxCNC
can't? (see the KX* mills from Arc Eurotrade in the UK; now with USB input)
Related: What commands are sent over the USB
Gene; my KX1 has circa 7,000 rpm on it, and, with the Mesa and G540, it can
really move. (running motors at 40v or so)
I'm still learning how much to push it now that I have (finally) found good
carbide end mills, replacing the ones picked up over the last 20 years.
Regards - John.
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Sightly hijacking my own thread,
In doing more reading, I found the following text of interest:
(ref: http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Grbl)
"It accepts standards-compliant G-code and has been tested with the output
of several CAM tools with no problems. Arcs, circles and helical motion ar
Andy;
There is a clue on page 26 here:
> http://www.warp9td.com/documentation/SmoothStepperUserManualV1.0.pdf
Funny!
:-) John.
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Gene;
> I'm still learning how much to push it now that I have (finally) found
> > good carbide end mills, replacing the ones picked up over the last 20
> > years.
>
> I've been getting my smaller stuff from Midwest Circuit Supply, but
> probably am paying too much if the fleabay stuff is actually
Andy;
I could be persuaded to have some sympathy for this viewpoint, actually.
> If G-code simply moved axes in absolute machine space and everything else
> was done in the pre-processor then thing would be a great deal simpler.
I wonder what will happen when they get *two* extruders going (supp
Cripes Andy;
If it can attract my attention when I am sat in front of the TV, then
> I think it would annoy the neighbours.
>
> (My machine is running in the garage as I type this. I have better
> things to do that watch a CNC :-) )
You've got better TV than we do, obviously! (actually, no TV in
> I'm on call 24/7, and I'm damn glad the days of the pager are long gone. I
> had to have one of them strapped on my all the time.
>
> Ever tried to water ski with a pager?
>
No, but I did go to a Peter Gabriel concert with one once - told them at
work that "gosh - somehow I missed the beep!" (t
Regarding the 2.6 branch (thank you) and the new tp (thank you) and the
machine kit (thank you);
How about a 2.6 stable release, and a 2.7-pre1 release, that has the newer
features, maybe not bleeding edge, but fairly stable?
Ubuntu does this quite well, from my experience.
That would keep the s
Steve;
I'm still stuck lathe wise though, I may just have to bite the bullet
> and get a Siemens or Fanuc control otherwise I may well be in the grave
> before it gets released here or Mach 4 turn materialises.
>
I thought the new Tormach lathe runs LinuxCNC? Or are the reports out there
wrong?
Ray;
... My needs
> are simple and I think once it's running I'll probably just stay with
> what I've got.
>
That's what I do. I can't actually tell you what version of Ubuntu they
run, but I *can* tell you that they'll run all day without missing a
heartbeat.
I know it's not perfect, but as I have run out of inputs on my mill, I have
an Arduino in the mail that will allow me to send keyboard commands with
button presses - I have to be running "Axis", but from there, I think I can
control my mill with this Arduino.
Most arduinos do not allow keyboard em
Andy - I had forgotten about this.
Actually, I could just put a header on the 2nd port of the enclosed 5i25,
and use that. Hmmm - the machine is in a small case, but there might be
room somewhere there for it...
Hmmm - thanks for the creative thoughts.
My goal is to create a set of buttons that
Hi Norbert, Andy;
Norbert - Have most certainly looked at gmoccapy; then went out and priced
touch screens with VGA ports, and...(there's a lot of scots blood in me!)
I however DO LIKE what you are doing; maybe for my upcoming CNC Lathe.
Andy - the mill has the 2xG540 config in there, powering
Hi Andy;
You realise that that way you end up with bearings of the same quality
> as the current set?
> Have you looked on (for example) www.simplybearings.co.uk ?
Kind of off-topic, but yes, I realize that I'm getting what was in there
again.
But, it does give me a spindle to repair as I see f
No, I just compiled and installed it on my older 13.x system just this
week.
Did not upgrade to 14.4 because I use CamBam, with mono framework, and do
not want to play with that too much.
The 13.x compile/install went ok - there was one python module required
(image, or something close to that) t
Houston's on my calendar - :-)
JohnS.
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Stuart Stevenson
wrote:
> sounds good to me
>
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Chris Kelley
> wrote:
>
> > How does the weekend of October 17th sound? I think that's enough time to
> > plan and October is still fall i
Hate to say this, but I had 3 Starrett blades that would NOT stay on my
cutoff bandsaw. Real frustrating having a bandsaw that took longer to keep
putting blades back on than it did to cut material.
Changed blade for a "top of the line" blade from importer busybeetools.com,
and it's been perfect s
I must admit that my (older) LinuxCNC machines seemed strange in that the
feed override changed the G0 speed.
a G1 F500 (or whatever) would do if I wanted to control rapids when
controlling the feed rate, but, that was not my intention.
So, to me, this change actually makes sense!
John.
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I had one of these (but with the bull gear cover, and original lamp) for a
number of years, but sold it when I moved 1/2 way around the world.
As a shaper addict, I've kept it down to just a Drummond hand shaper, but
truth be told, a CNC mill is much more fun!
John.
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Where I work, you can get charged with theft if you take things from
dumpsters (skips), and, as a clean record is required for a security
clearance which is required for the job...
we've had a cleanup of some very interesting labs; lots of neat equipment
has gone to scrap, resell, or just who know
or just put it through "strings" and see what prints out.
JohnS.
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Cecil;
As a simple user of LinuxCNC, and one-time head of a large open source
project (that even Apple distributed) I thank you for your feedback, as it
will help make LinuxCNC better.
As my experience shows, many people use the software, but incredibly few
send in feedback or updates, so good fo
Hi all; Hope this question is considered on-topic, or at least not too far
off.
I'm doing another CNC conversion - my largest yet. G0704 (BF20) style mill,
and I'm wondering about stepper drivers. (Have a Mesa 5i25/7i76 combo;
maybe my next machine will be servo)
I'm wondering about drivers - I h
Andy, Marcus, Claude, Gene;
Thanks for the feedback and the link.
I logged back on to say that I had purchased some of those DM856
controllers, enough for my 4 axis mill build, plus one spare, just in case.
I do have a larger lathe that I'm trying to get myself to CNC - an Emco
Compact-8, and th
, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 05 July 2014 19:08:34 John Alexander Stewart did opine
> And Gene did reply:
> > Andy, Marcus, Claude, Gene;
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback and the link.
> >
> > I logged back on to say that I had purchased some of thos
Steve -
I can understand your frustration.
However, maybe a differences in our characters - and this is not a
complaint or put-down. I ponder and dig and experiment and learn. My wife's
always saying "quit pondering and just do it" - and many times she's right.
I know that I'm in the vast minori
Andy - do you want a CAD program, or something to create beautiful
characters to put into your next 3D game, or test your Renderman shader
programming skills, or...
How about BRL-CAD, OpenSCAD, SolveSpace, or even the old 2D QCad?
Just my 0.02c, from attending too many SIGGRAPH conferences...
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Hi all;
I thought I had this fixed.
running a 4 hour engraving process, and the X axis slowly moves. At the
end, it is off, maybe, 0.3mm or so. (using centre drill before and after,
you can see different points)
I thought I had this fixed, because I've had this problem for a long time,
now I fin
e had couplings slip
>
> interfacing, bad timing delay from the reversal to the first step
> driver not seeing levels correctly (opto not driven hard enough)
>
> Dave Caroline
>
>
> On 10/08/2014, John Alexander Stewart wrote:
> > Hi all;
> >
> > I though
Yes! Success!
setp hm2_5i25.0.stepgen.00.position-scale [AXIS_0]SCALE
setp hm2_5i25.0.stepgen.00.steplen 2500
setp hm2_5i25.0.stepgen.00.stepspace 2500
setp hm2_5i25.0.stepgen.00.dirhold 2500
setp hm2_5i25.0.stepgen.00.dirsetup 2500
worked, no axis slip over a 4 hour test.
I think I'll set every
Ok - the coffee is not in yet, so possibly this is obvious.
Want to change the isolcpus page, to reflect my 12.04/ 2.6.x LinuxCNC
install, but can't find the right incantation of the administrator password
in order to be able to edit the page.
I tried all lower case on a couple of "options", capi
Andy - too oblique for my pre-coffee haze. Got it privately, and did not
realize that Tux had been renamed!
(that's what happens when you start with the 0.10 Linux kernel - way back
circa 1990... you get "stuck" and don't progress)
Thanks all - JohnS.
Ben, Riccardo;
Maybe I have to re-think this issue on my G540. Been off doing other
things recently, so no more work done on my mill.
Q: no documents close by, so maybe a dumb question. How did you invert the
step outputs?
Q2: What timing parameters are you using? (steplen, stepspace, dirhold,
I would expect so - you'll use (for instance) hm2_5i25.0.7i76.0.0 for one
machine, and the next 7i76 for the next machine.
Not that I'm an expert, but it's what I'd do for this instance.
(I have a lathe on the parallel port, and a 5i25/7i76 combo for a mill - at
least, I'm trying to do this...)
Hi all;
Today is "CNC Machine Day", and I've spent over 3 hours trying to get a
5i25/7i76 combo working.
1) jumpers verified on 5i25, so that it supplies 5v to the 7i76;
2) both yellow LEDS on the 7i76 light.
3) Field power, separate 12v power supply.
4) 5i25 has sticker on back saying it has 7i7
Hi David, Marius;
and what connectons are you using on the stepper drives , as these have
> optos , do you have the + positive side of pulse and direction and enable
> tied to 5+
> with the neg sides connected to the 7i76 use STEP0- PIN2 and DIR0- the
> enable lines can all go together to a sin
Ok - success!
1) Did David's suggestion re wiring.
2) Marius would have been able to help - I increased some of the timings
for step and dir,
3) I did up the amperage to the axes; don't know if that made a difference.
Lo and behold - the Y and Z axes are working. :-) The X axis needs some
physic
My CNC mills do not have traditional keyboards.
They are "Internet devices"
Running machineKit or LinuxCNC, they just plain work. Graphics performance
is a non-issue.
My Unimat CNC with the BeagleBone works just fine, thank you. Come to the
CNC Workshop and see it for yourself. (mind you, I'll
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Viesturs Lācis
wrote:
>
>
> I am more excited about the possibility of having numerous cnc
> machines, each doing some lengthy job (for example, 3d printer doing a
> 20+ hour print) and I can use one device for all GUIs
I do this by exporting the Axis screen to
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
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> One thing I haven't noted yet, no on has mentioned the price of this
> little box?
Gene - I don't know about the SandyBox, but my BeagleBoneBlack, with
parallel "cape" plus LinuxCNC (MachineKit) on an SDCard was about $80.00 US
from Xylote
Gene;
I wired up the G0704 sensor to my Mesa 7i76/5i25 combo and use it with
Andy's Lincurve stuff for speed feedback. And full speed control via the
same combo.
I'll be mentioning some of this at a seminar at the upcoming CNC Workshop.
Some stuff on my blog - the Canadian name for the G0704 is
The workshop went well, in my opinion.
TechShop Detroit is an amazing place, and is an ideal host for a workshop.
LinuxCNC/Machinekit wise:
Tormach were here with their lathe, and pcnc1100 mill. Running
PathPilot.
Robert Luken had two sessions on GCode, and LinuxCNC.
Jon Elson had a L
Dave - As mentioned by others, cut the center tap wiring; I did this for my
Sherline Rotary table to let it run with my other machines. I used full
coil; probably could have got away with using half coil only.
Was looking at the Sherline CNC machines website last night - one of these
might make a
Marius;
Out of interest - where is this wizard located? Is it available for all??
I saw Tormach's lathe at the CNC Workshop last week, and I think we have
some work to do to be as nice as that machine was
Thanks - JohnS.
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Marius;
I think this is a good idea, but a little bit premature for me in my
current phase of employment.
I would also expect (from my limited experience) that an organized
"LinuxCNC/MachineKit" support organization, much like the Linux vendors do,
would make a lot of sense.
There seemed to be
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