Re: [Emc-users] Drag-chain cable

2015-09-15 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 09/15/2015 08:15 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 15 September 2015 at 18:31, Thomas Kaiser <c...@kaiser-linux.li> wrote: >> On 09/15/2015 05:35 PM, andy pugh wrote: >>> If you are in a hurry, someone else (in Austria) is listing some very > >> The cable is l

Re: [Emc-users] Drag-chain cable

2015-09-15 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 09/15/2015 05:35 PM, andy pugh wrote: > If you are in a hurry, someone else (in Austria) is listing some very > similar cable at the moment. > http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Resolverkabel-Encoderkabel-3x-2x0-14-2x-0-5-paarweise-geschirmt-6FX8008-1BD31-/181803016984?hash=item2a544de318 > > Note that

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy with 1024x600 resolution display?

2013-10-29 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 10/29/2013 01:33 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 28 October 2013 22:59, Thomas Kaiser c...@kaiser-linux.li wrote: Touchy is too big for this screen! (LinuxCNC 2.5.3 on Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS) IIRC the trick is to fiddle with the font DPI until the width works System-Preferences-Appearance-Fonts

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy with 1024x600 resolution display?

2013-10-28 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 10/25/2013 06:43 PM, Thomas Kaiser wrote: Hello All I would like to run Touchy on the resoltution 1024x600. I found this sentence in the file design.notes in the Touchy src directory: Configurability of font sizes makes it work with any screen resolution. Where can I configure

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy with 1024x600 resolution display?

2013-10-28 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 10/28/2013 11:30 PM, Chris Radek wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:20:23PM +0100, Thomas Kaiser wrote: Sorry for a ping again. Is it not possible to run Touchy on 1024x600? Sure it is. Say what problem you are having? What doesn't fit? Touchy is too big for this screen! (LinuxCNC

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy with 1024x600 resolution display?

2013-10-28 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 10/29/2013 12:07 AM, John Thornton wrote: Your screen is too small... I don't think so! The fonts and the buttons are really big. When one does not limit the resolution for Touchy, it will fit fine. As written in the design notes it should fit to any resolution. Thomas

[Emc-users] Touchy with 1024x600 resolution display?

2013-10-25 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hello All I would like to run Touchy on the resoltution 1024x600. I found this sentence in the file design.notes in the Touchy src directory: Configurability of font sizes makes it work with any screen resolution. Where can I configure this to fit to the above mentioned resolution? Regards,

Re: [Emc-users] Homebrew BOB

2013-09-27 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 09/27/2013 10:43 AM,Gregg Eshelman wrote: On 9/26/2013 4:48 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Thomas Kaiser wrote: Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:33:53 +0200 From: Thomas Kaiser c...@kaiser-linux.li Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users

[Emc-users] Homebrew BOB

2013-09-26 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hello I read this page http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?About_Charge_Pumps. What is needed to make sure the BOB is only active when LinuxCNC is up, running and healthy? When LinuxCNC is not running, some outputs are in the wrong state. Therefore, I would like to enable the BOB only

Re: [Emc-users] Classic Ladder: Best Practice

2013-09-18 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 09/18/2013 02:29 AM, Chris Morley wrote: Anyway, this does not answer my question. Is it possible to separate ladder programs and is it wise to do so? Thomas No you can only load one instance of classicladder and one ladder program. You can have different named sections and

Re: [Emc-users] Classic Ladder: Best Practice

2013-09-18 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 09/18/2013 08:33 AM, Chris Morley wrote: So I have to keep all in one CL and divide the different function (Spindle, tool change) in subroutines. Thanks, Thomas Subroutines are an option but possibly over kill. You can have named sections. Go to the section manager and press add

Re: [Emc-users] Classic Ladder: Best Practice

2013-09-17 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 09/17/2013 09:40 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 17 September 2013 19:48, Thomas Kaiser c...@kaiser-linux.li wrote: I have to implement spindle speed control and tool changer for a lathe. I will do this in classic ladder. Should I put everything in one program or should I split it in two

[Emc-users] Classic Ladder: Best Practice

2013-09-17 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hello List I have to implement spindle speed control and tool changer for a lathe. I will do this in classic ladder. Should I put everything in one program or should I split it in two independent classic ladder instances, e.g. spindle.clp and toolchanger.clp. I would like to get some opinions,

Re: [Emc-users] Classic Ladder: Best Practice

2013-09-17 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 09/17/2013 11:00 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 17 September 2013 21:25, Thomas Kaiser c...@kaiser-linux.li wrote: It has a 3 phase motor which can be run in low or high speed and change direction. A variator which can adjust speed in a defined range and a gear for low or high speed. For me

Re: [Emc-users] Unified Build/ new RTOS work: general availability for testing

2013-09-13 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 09/13/2013 10:59 PM, Sven Wesley wrote: 2013/9/13 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com 2013/9/11 Thomas Kaiser c...@kaiser-linux.li On Ubuntu 13.04 one need to install tcl8.5-dev, tk8.5-dev instead of 8.4. libxmu-headers and libxmu-dev is also needed. So, I have to use that command

Re: [Emc-users] Unified Build/ new RTOS work: general availability for testing

2013-09-11 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 09/11/2013 05:22 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: Hello Thomas, Am 11.09.2013 um 02:16 schrieb Thomas Kaiser c...@kaiser-linux.li: On 09/11/2013 01:16 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 10 September 2013 23:46, Thomas Kaiser c...@kaiser-linux.li wrote: I got the same error on both machines after I run

Re: [Emc-users] Unified Build/ new RTOS work: general availability for testing

2013-09-11 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 09/11/2013 08:28 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: You need libreadline-dev. dpkg-checkbuilddeps will tell you. Thanks, now Tcl and Tk is missing. Looks like I have to figure out all the dependencies... I will post what else I had to install for compiling LinuxCNC. Regards, Thomas

Re: [Emc-users] Unified Build/ new RTOS work: general availability for testing

2013-09-11 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 09/11/2013 12:10 PM,Michael Haberler wrote: this might be a starting point: http//static.mah.priv.at/public/xenomai-debs/install-packages-for-build-on-12.04-pristine.sh-m Now, I have it running on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. I installed a lot: sudo apt-get install debhelper libpth-dev dvipng

Re: [Emc-users] Unified Build/ new RTOS work: general availability for testing

2013-09-11 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 09/11/2013 08:47 AM, Thomas Kaiser wrote: On 09/11/2013 08:28 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: You need libreadline-dev. dpkg-checkbuilddeps will tell you. Thanks, now Tcl and Tk is missing. Looks like I have to figure out all the dependencies... I will post what else I had to install

Re: [Emc-users] Unified Build/ new RTOS work: general availability for testing

2013-09-10 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 09/11/2013 01:16 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 10 September 2013 23:46, Thomas Kaiser c...@kaiser-linux.li wrote: I got the same error on both machines after I run ./configure: checking libgl1-mesa-dri workaround... test for libgl1-mesa-dri workaround failed, please file a bug I think

Re: [Emc-users] Unified Build/ new RTOS work: general availability for testing

2013-09-10 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 09/03/2013 08:26 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: how to try it === we do not have packages as of yet - you need to build from source. Whatever kernel you happen to be running is fine if you have the linux-headers pkg installed. Follow the steps outlined in section 3 to build:

Re: [Emc-users] [OT] Vacuum System

2012-10-01 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 10/01/2012 05:45 AM,Kirk Wallace wrote: I'm playing with the thought of putting a vacuum deposition system together to coat telescope mirrors with aluminum. It looks like I could get everything I need from eBay at relatively low cost. Of course, elements of LinuxCNC could be used to monitor

Re: [Emc-users] jog does not stop!

2010-01-21 Thread Thomas Kaiser
I just sent you a mail off list! On 01/21/2010 07:22 PM, Gilicze Andor wrote: Hi, I search Thomas Kaiser! Sorry for offtopic, but i'd like some information about original controller. Could you tell me in a few words, how to start this engine? I've got one (faulty?), fixed some smaller

Re: [Emc-users] OT: UHU Servocontroller

2009-10-20 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 10/19/2009 11:53 PM, kestreltom wrote: Thomas Kaiser c...@... writes: Hey Does anybody on this list use the UHU Servocontroller [http://www.uhu-servo.de/]? If so, what are the experience with this? What motors you are using? I am just interested at anything somebody did

Re: [Emc-users] OT: UHU Servocontroller

2009-10-20 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 10/20/2009 08:05 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 20:25 +0200, Thomas Kaiser wrote: Hey Does anybody on this list use the UHU Servocontroller [http://www.uhu-servo.de/]? If so, what are the experience with this? What motors you are using? I am just interested at anything

[Emc-users] OT: UHU Servocontroller

2009-10-19 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hey Does anybody on this list use the UHU Servocontroller [http://www.uhu-servo.de/]? If so, what are the experience with this? What motors you are using? I am just interested at anything somebody did with this ;-). Thomas

Re: [Emc-users] dual boot

2009-04-30 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 04/30/2009 05:58 PM, pstenl...@portoflongview.com wrote: Help! Situation: 2pc's home office PC dual boot XP 8.10 Xubuntu. Shop pc running Xbuntu 8.04 and EMC2. I tried KDE, ubuntu etc on the office PC and then went back to Xubuntu 8.10. The other Gui's left a lot of stuff on the

Re: [Emc-users] Root access

2009-02-10 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Wes S wrote: On 9 Feb 2009 at 16:03, Rafael Skodlar wrote: I mount the fedora partition with the grub.conf file on it. I get told don't have permission. I try su, okay, how do I get root on my EMC install? Wes To run commands that need to be executed as root you simply sudo

Re: [Emc-users] CAN-Bus drivers

2009-02-07 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Jim Fleig - CNC Services wrote: FWIW I cannot speak to the issue of Bosch having proprietary rights to CAN-BUS communication. I have seen CAN-BUS used on many machine tools that did not have any Bosch software (that I know of) or hardware (I definitely know there was no Bosch hardware).

Re: [Emc-users] jog does not stop!

2009-02-07 Thread Thomas Kaiser
John Kasunich wrote: Fix the speed problem and the crazy following error limit, and the jog problem will fix itself. Hello John Now, I found good parameters where the axis move like expected. Here are the important part of the .ini file: [EMCMOT] EMCMOT = motmod SHMEM_KEY = 111 COMM_TIMEOUT

[Emc-users] VFD recommendation for lathe spindle

2009-02-07 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hey As I said in some other posts, I retrofit a Schaublin 125 lathe with EMC2. On this machine the spindle speed is controlled by 2 different motor speeds and a mechanical stepless gear. Instead of programming a hal component to use this 'stepless gear, I would like to use a VFD instead. The

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 Lathe

2009-01-31 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Len Shelton wrote: I'm pretty sure you will find it the other way around- X is the cross slide, Z longitudinal Cool - that clears up a lot. Now how can I rotate the Axis display and keys to match how I stand next to the machine? Len I am working on a lathe right now. Here is my .ini

Re: [Emc-users] jog does not stop!

2009-01-29 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hello All First of all, sorry for the late response. Only today, I got some time to work on this project again. Thanks for all the responses! @Chris: changing to velocity mode did not help (setp axis.0.jog-vel-mode true) :-( Now, I try to explain more what I try to do and what I use for it:

Re: [Emc-users] jog does not stop!

2009-01-29 Thread Thomas Kaiser
John Thornton wrote: Just my 2 cents but jogging with the keyboard or the gui can have some lag time in responce if your cpu is loaded down pretty good generating a bunch of fast steps. I'm guessing that your base period is just a bit low for the cpu and the cpu is really loaded up at

Re: [Emc-users] jog does not stop!

2009-01-29 Thread Thomas Kaiser
John Kasunich wrote: Thomas Kaiser wrote: Today I measured the time (with a stop watch) to move 200 mm in full speed (G00 Z-200.0) and got +8 seconds. Looks like the it does not move at 3000 mm / min. [EMCMOT] EMCMOT = motmod SHMEM_KEY = 111 COMM_TIMEOUT = 1.0

[Emc-users] jog does not stop!

2009-01-24 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hi I replaced the CNC controller of a Schaublin 125 CNC with emc2. So far I can move both axis (x, z) in jog mode and can home them. But when I jog with max speed (3000mm/sec) the axis still moves after I released the arrow button. I don't know what information do you guys need to help me.

Re: [Emc-users] jog does not stop!

2009-01-24 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Dave Engvall wrote: On Jan 24, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Thomas Kaiser wrote: Hi I replaced the CNC controller of a Schaublin 125 CNC with emc2. So far I can move both axis (x, z) in jog mode and can home them. But when I jog with max speed (3000mm/sec) the axis still moves after I

Re: [Emc-users] jog does not stop!

2009-01-24 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Thomas Kaiser wrote: Hi I replaced the CNC controller of a Schaublin 125 CNC with emc2. So far I can move both axis (x, z) in jog mode and can home them. But when I jog with max speed (3000mm/sec) the axis still moves after I released the arrow button. I don't know what information

Re: [Emc-users] Override (force) HAL inputs

2009-01-17 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Thomas Kaiser wrote: Hello All I would like to override (force) the input of the home switches for testing. I created a checkbutton vcp component which should overwrite the both-home-x/y signal: checkbutton halpinx-axis-home-force/halpin /checkbutton

[Emc-users] Override (force) HAL inputs

2009-01-16 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hello All I would like to override (force) the input of the home switches for testing. I created a checkbutton vcp component which should overwrite the both-home-x/y signal: checkbutton halpinx-axis-home-force/halpin /checkbutton In the postgui.hal: linksp both-home-x

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard recommendation, WIKI seems not up to date

2009-01-14 Thread Thomas Kaiser
not boot from the CF-Card :-) Don't know where the problem lays. Regards, Thomas Thomas Kaiser wrote: Hello All I am looking for a MB witch is good for running EMC2. What you guys are using? I checked the WIKI page with the latency information. For me it looks quite outdated. I am

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard recommendation, WIKI seems not up to date

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Thank you all for the information. I will report back after I got my board. Regards, Thomas -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open

[Emc-users] Motherboard recommendation, WIKI seems not up to date

2009-01-07 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hello All I am looking for a MB witch is good for running EMC2. What you guys are using? I checked the WIKI page with the latency information. For me it looks quite outdated. I am looking for something reliable and with no moving parts (Fan, HD). Are the new Intel Atoms a good choice? Can