Re: [Emc-users] Conversion Suggesions?

2014-01-23 Thread Russell Brown
enough advice on that there Internet saying 'just fit ballscrews'. -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ...@lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work: http://www.lls.com

Re: [Emc-users] MPG pendant

2014-02-07 Thread Russell Brown
added to linuxcnc http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Using_A_XHC-HB04_Wireless_MPG_Pendant FWIW, I've got one of those and it works for me using the info on the above page. -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown

[Emc-users] Spindle Tacho

2014-02-10 Thread Russell Brown
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Re: [Emc-users] Spindle Tacho

2014-02-11 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth andy pugh. On 10 February 2014 18:18, Russell Brown russ...@lls.lls.com wrote: All the spindle speed stuff I've found talks about encoders and the only likely candidate in pnc/stepconf is the Digital Input 0-4 but my Google-fu is weak and I can't join the dots. What hardware are you

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle Tacho

2014-02-11 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth andy pugh. On 11 February 2014 08:59, Russell Brown russ...@lls.lls.com wrote: Mesa 5I25/7I76 with 12V field power and the optical switch is an Optek OPB830L51 The 7i76 has encoder connections provided on TB3. This assumes that you are not already using the encoder for something else

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle Tacho

2014-02-11 Thread Russell Brown
be useful for that purpose. 1 2 are non-negotiable. Please enlighten me if 3 is silly :-) -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ...@lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work

Re: [Emc-users] Multiple INI files

2014-02-13 Thread Russell Brown
(the default in the above) or 'make machine2.ini' to build that. Just a thought. -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ...@lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work: http://www.lls.com

Re: [Emc-users] Announcing the LinuxCNC 2.6 branch

2014-04-04 Thread Russell Brown
perception of LinuxCNC. -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ...@lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work: http://www.lls.com | | Peterborough, England | WWW

Re: [Emc-users] Technique question

2014-07-04 Thread Russell Brown
pictured. I noticed in another picture what looks like that yoke mounted in a 'U' shaped clamp with bolts coming in from the side... which peeks my curiosity too. -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ

[Emc-users] Creating Screw Compensation Table

2013-09-05 Thread Russell Brown
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Re: [Emc-users] Creating Screw Compensation Table

2013-09-05 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth bodge...@gmail.com. On 5 September 2013 16:33, Russell Brown russ...@lls.lls.com wrote: Is this the sort of thing that a screw compensation table is meant to deal with? If so, how do I actually measure the numbers for the table? Then just run up the table, G0 X10, note the reading

Re: [Emc-users] Creating Screw Compensation

2013-09-06 Thread Russell Brown
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Re: [Emc-users] HAL: two pins for same function without or2 ?

2013-09-10 Thread Russell Brown
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[Emc-users] HAL: two pins for same function without or2 ?

2013-09-10 Thread Russell Brown
to use or2 but I thought I'd ask to see if I'm missing a trick. TIA. -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ...@lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work: http://www.lls.com

Re: [Emc-users] HAL: two pins for same function without or2 ?

2013-09-10 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth andy pugh. On 10 September 2013 18:27, Russell Brown russ...@lls.lls.com wrote: I most certainly read it understood is obviously another matter :-( halui.jog.0.minus is an OUT pin then (I kind of thought it was an IN). No, that's definitely an in. halcmd show pin *jog* Ah

Re: [Emc-users] It's the software. Re: Very weird thing with my stepper motors. They don't like to be moved while running.

2013-09-23 Thread Russell Brown
on a 5I25 :-) HtH -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ...@lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work: http://www.lls.com | | Peterborough, England | WWW Play: http

[Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-02 Thread Russell Brown
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Re: [Emc-users] Crowbars

2013-10-02 Thread Russell Brown
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Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-02 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth Peter C. Wallace. On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Russell Brown wrote: It's a stepper based system using a Mesa 5I25 and the standard BASE_PERIOD of 50us which should allow 20,000 steps per second (according to TFM). There should be no base thread at all with hardware stepgens (it will make

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-03 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth Chris Morley. From: Andy Pugh On 2 October 2013 18:26, Russell Brown russ...@lls.lls.com wrote: loadrt abs names= loadrt lowpass names= This is a stepfconf bug. I can't recall what prompts it. I thought it was fixed. (it tries to load a bunch of components

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers [SOLVED]

2013-10-03 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth andy pugh. On 3 October 2013 13:22, Russell Brown russ...@lls.lls.com wrote: So. Why are the absolute values in the INI different to the ones in the HAL file? There's obviously some magic going on here :-) However, if the axis limits are exactly the same as the stepgen limits

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth Chris Morley. On 2 October 2013 18:26, Russell Brown russ...@lls.lls.com wrote: loadrt abs names= loadrt lowpass names= Ok I think it's really fix this time. seems asking for a gladeVCP sample panel but without a spindle speed display set it off. Please test

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Russell Brown
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Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth David Armstrong. On 04/10/13 11:19, Russell Brown wrote: The bad news is that the config generated fails to run (in 2.5.3) with: Mesa_Mill.hal:124: Pin 'motion.spindle-speed-out-rps-abs' does not exist i believe it's just a typo or a change of name etc i think that particular line

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth David Armstrong. On 04/10/13 12:16, Russell Brown wrote: Quoth David Armstrong. On 04/10/13 11:19, Russell Brown wrote: The bad news is that the config generated fails to run (in 2.5.3) with: Mesa_Mill.hal:124: Pin 'motion.spindle-speed-out-rps-abs' does not exist i believe it's

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth andy pugh. On 4 October 2013 11:19, Russell Brown russ...@lls.lls.com wrote: Mesa_Mill.hal:124: Pin 'motion.spindle-speed-out-rps-abs' does not exist The pin was added in this commit: http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=commit;h=71f6326a9e2585122856a77619dfeae193a61d5d

Re: [Emc-users] Perceived issues with LinuxCNC.

2013-10-10 Thread Russell Brown
are looking. -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ...@lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work: http://www.lls.com | | Peterborough, England | WWW Play: http

[Emc-users] USB Camera for edge finder?

2013-11-07 Thread Russell Brown
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Re: [Emc-users] USB Camera for edge finder?

2013-11-07 Thread Russell Brown
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Re: [Emc-users] USB Camera for edge finder?

2013-11-08 Thread Russell Brown
. -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ...@lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work: http://www.lls.com | | Peterborough, England | WWW Play: http://www.ruffle.me.uk

Re: [Emc-users] USB Camera for edge finder?

2013-11-08 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth Russell Brown. (yes it's bad form following up my own post. Sorry) But quite what you do with convert_crop.so once it's copied to /usr/lib/camunits I don't know. Aha! You stick it in the chain directly after the V4l2 bit and in camview (the standalone utility) you can move the slider

Re: [Emc-users] Off topic.

2014-01-02 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth andy pugh. http://bodgesoc.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/rivett-lathe-stand.html Classy but how did you get it home on the R1? -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ...@lls.com PHONE: 01780

Re: [Emc-users] Where's Gene?

2015-03-22 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth Belli Button. Haven't heard from him in a while, hope he's oOK. He seems to be busy on the trinity-kde users mailing list. -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ...@lls.com PHONE: 01780

Re: [Emc-users] VFD causing limits to trip. Huh?

2015-03-15 Thread Russell Brown
(other jobs without all the above have run fine). I guess time will tell. Hope that's useful for someone. -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ...@lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems

[Emc-users] VFD causing limits to trip. Huh?

2015-03-06 Thread Russell Brown
don't think it was simple vibration as I'd been fly cutting with my normal spindle shortly before and that didn't trip anything. Any ideas what might cause this? -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ

Re: [Emc-users] VFD causing limits to trip. Huh?

2015-03-07 Thread Russell Brown
. I'll report back on the results. -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ...@lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work: http://www.lls.com | | Peterborough, England

Re: [Emc-users] Wheezy Networking

2015-04-09 Thread Russell Brown
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[Emc-users] Pyvcp display global variab^W parameter?

2015-06-25 Thread Russell Brown
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Re: [Emc-users] Resetting a tilt-able head to plumb?

2015-08-18 Thread Russell Brown
of the tilty bit of the head where it meets the Z saddle to get the spindle in line with the column *and* the base of the column to get the, now aligned, spindle in tram with the table. -- Regards, Russell | Russell Brown

Re: [Emc-users] Problem upgrading from 2.7.4

2016-10-12 Thread Russell Brown
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[Emc-users] Problem upgrading from 2.7.4

2016-10-12 Thread Russell Brown
/gladevcp:295: GtkWarning: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): > attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height 19 > gtk.main() Not sure about those Gtk warnings... they might have been around forever as I normally fire up LinuxCNC from an icon. -- Regards, Russell --

Re: [Emc-users] Problem upgrading from 2.7.4

2016-10-13 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth andy pugh. >On 12 October 2016 at 17:00, Russell Brown <russ...@lls.lls.com> wrote: >> Somethings very broken with 2.7.5+ on lucid :-( > >Can you clarify? Originally you said "Debian Wheezy" and now you are >saying "Lucid" Bah. T'wa

Re: [Emc-users] Problem upgrading from 2.7.4

2016-10-12 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth John Alexander Stewart. >Russell - is there a "z" axis on your machine? Yes. It's a mill. -- Regards, Russell -------- | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ...@lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady

Re: [Emc-users] Problem upgrading from 2.7.4

2016-10-12 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth andy pugh. >On 12 October 2016 at 08:49, Russell Brown <russ...@lls.lls.com> 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 not showing in the display. > >Is this one of them "Univ