As a bonus you can control the GS2 with LinuxCNC and get drive feedback
via the modbus connection.
John
On 3/20/2013 5:14 PM, dave wrote:
Automation Direct
GS2 2.0 HP AC DRIVE 230V 1/3 PH IN 3 PH OUT
Not cheap but they work. I got tired of having to fire up the 30 Hp 3ph
converter every
I'm looking at purchasing a 1980's vintage Acra knee mill (Bridgeport clone)
with an Anilam Crusader M system.
It has some issues, the X axis motor (Baldor FMDB-00 type) and control
board are missing and the CRT is hanging loose in the control box. The inside
of the big electronics box is
On 20 March 2013 09:50, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote:
It has some issues, the X axis motor (Baldor FMDB-00 type) and control
board are missing
Is this eBay advert any help?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-SERVO-MOTORS-AND-DRIVES-WITH-MATCHING-POWER-SUPPLY-/330889664882
I found a
Gregg Eshelman wrote:
I'm looking at purchasing a 1980's vintage Acra knee mill (Bridgeport clone)
with an Anilam Crusader M system.
Seller wants $300 but I have a guy who knows the seller very well, will see
about getting it for less, along with a short bed 13 LeBlond lathe that
needs a
andy pugh wrote:
The board might interface with the drives. It won't interface with
LinuxCNC (No support for USB, for technical reasons)
$200 for the Mesa 5i25 / 7i77 will work, or the Pico PPMC.
Well, there are two ways to go with Pico Systems products. If the servo
amps
are in good
On 20 March 2013 16:45, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote:
LinuxCNC does not support motion control over USB.
Furthermore, if you mean:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CNC-4Axis-USB-CNC-Controller-Interface-Board-CNCUSB-2-1-For-Servo-Motor-Drivers-/170992896776
Then it only actually controls
On 20 March 2013 16:50, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote:
Well, there are two ways to go with Pico Systems products. If the servo
amps
are in good shape and of the analog velocity servo type, then the PPMC
is the
right choice. But, if the amps are not in good condition, then there is
--- On Wed, 3/20/13, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
Is this eBay advert any help?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-SERVO-MOTORS-AND-DRIVES-WITH-MATCHING-POWER-SUPPLY-/330889664882
Might if I was in the UK. ;)
I found a little 4 axis board with USB port on ebay,
supports stepper and servo
On 20 March 2013 20:26, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote:
Is this eBay advert any help?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-SERVO-MOTORS-AND-DRIVES-WITH-MATCHING-POWER-SUPPLY-/330889664882
Might if I was in the UK. ;)
If he won't ship to you, then it might be possible to ship to me and I
--- On Wed, 3/20/13, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a feeling that Anilam used tachos on the motors and
glass scales on the machine slides. (Though maybe not always).
In that configuration I think that keeping the existing
drives is
likely to be easier, but if switching to the
On 20 March 2013 21:43, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote:
It has glass scales on X and Y on the table, Z on the quill. The issue with
keeping the original controllers is that one is gone, missing, MIA - along
with the X axis servo motor. If there's a selection of different control
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 14:43 -0700, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
--- On Wed, 3/20/13, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a feeling that Anilam used tachos on the motors and
glass scales on the machine slides. (Though maybe not always).
In that configuration I think that keeping the
Dear sir,
I have tried to use linuxCNC , and the GUI I need should be Qt, i
have tried to manage it myself ,but failed。。。So do u have one for me? thanks
for ur help。
urs
On 23 August 2012 10:56, xgd...@sina.com wrote:
I have tried to use linuxCNC , and the GUI I need should be Qt, i
have tried to manage it myself ,but failed。。。So do u have one for me? thanks
for ur help。
Smithy have EZ-trol which is a QT4 GUI for LinuxCNC. I am not sure if
it
I have tried to use linuxCNC , and the GUI I need should be Qt, i
have tried to manage it myself ,but failed。。。So do u have one for me?
thanks for ur help。
Smithy have EZ-trol which is a QT4 GUI for LinuxCNC. I am not sure if
it is available except with a machine.
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:22:56 +0200
andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 August 2012 10:56, xgd...@sina.com wrote:
I have tried to use linuxCNC , and the GUI I need should
be Qt, i have tried to manage it myself ,but failed。。。So do u
have one for me? thanks for ur help。
On 06/12/11 14:04, matthew venn wrote:
Hello!
just wanted to say hi, I'm a new member to the list. I'm based in Bristol
UK, and do a lot of my work out of the bristol hackspace.
I've just bought a small CNC router (made by routoutuk), and have tested it
successfully with EMC. I used qcad,
Hello!
just wanted to say hi, I'm a new member to the list. I'm based in Bristol
UK, and do a lot of my work out of the bristol hackspace.
I've just bought a small CNC router (made by routoutuk), and have tested it
successfully with EMC. I used qcad, dxf2gcode and then EMC.
I'll probably post
2011/12/6 matthew venn m...@mattvenn.net:
I'll probably post lots of questions in the future - my first one is - how
do I search the archives? I couldn't find a way on the sourceforge page.
Google can be Your friend. Pretty often it finds results also in mail archives.
Here is one emc user
On 6 December 2011 14:04, matthew venn m...@mattvenn.net wrote:
I'll probably post lots of questions in the future - my first one is - how
do I search the archives?
The search box on the middle left of the main linuxcnc.org page
searches the the forum, wiki and web site.
The green box at the
Mathew,
Welcome!
I'll probably post lots of questions in the future - my first one is - how
do I search the archives? I couldn't find a way on the sourceforge page.
http://sourceforge.net/search/?group_id=6744type_of_search=mlists will search
the email lists, but it's not the best search
On 09/22/2011 01:47 PM, dave wrote:
AFIK Linux/Unix does not accept spaces in a filename.
All Unix systems accept spaces and other (strange) characters in file
names with few exceptions. Here's one way to take care of it:
rename 's/ /_/g' file\ name\ with\ spaces.xxx
Use Tab to expand the file
I have this problem and what it is, when I set the new machine gives me this
error
Print file
information:
RUN_IN_PLACE=no
EMC2_DIR=
EMC2_BIN_DIR=/usr/bin
EMC2_TCL_DIR=/usr/share/emc/tcl
EMC2_SCRIPT_DIR=
EMC2_RTLIB_DIR=/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/emc2
EMC2_CONFIG_DIR=
On 22 September 2011 20:12, Cristian Ruiz contacto_ru...@yahoo.com.ar wrote:
Could not
open command file 'intento'
Do you recognise that as a file name?
Does it appear in your INI file?
--
atp
Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men
2011/9/22 Cristian Ruiz contacto_ru...@yahoo.com.ar:
I have this problem and what it is, when I set the new machine gives me this
error
I think that the essence of problem is in this line:
Could not open command file 'intento'
How about some explanation, what did You do to get this error?
I would change the directory and file names.
I would remove the spaces.
--
dos centavos
--
All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a
definitive record of customers, application
AFIK Linux/Unix does not accept spaces in a filename.
Note that emc thinks you have a file named intento and not the whole
filename including the .ini
Eliminating the spaces or joining with hyphen or underscore should solve
the problem.
HTH
Dave
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:18 -0500, Stuart
There was a problem with when Emc creates a desktop link, if the
directory or config file has spaces in the name, like yours does, it
won't load correctly.
Edit the link and add single quotes around the ini files path, or change
the name.
On 9/22/2011 12:12 PM, Cristian Ruiz wrote:
I have
On 07/25/2011 03:32 PM, Gary Fiber wrote:
Could be Sam as the original email appeared on the comcast.net web
interface sent list. I have scanned this system using malware bytes and
Microsofts anti virus and nothing found.
I'll have to change my comcast password.
Gary,
It may not be
On 07/25/2011 07:44 PM, Dave wrote:
Steve,
Seeing that this is the first spam message I can recall on this list,
perhaps it is worth discussing just how this one got here?
I am on other lists and it seems like the amount of spam making it onto
lists is increasing.
Dave
Dave,
Mark,
I'll change the password and see what happens. Thanks
Gary K8IZ
On 7/26/2011 2:12 AM, Mark Wendt wrote:
On 07/25/2011 03:32 PM, Gary Fiber wrote:
Could be Sam as the original email appeared on the comcast.net web
interface sent list. I have scanned this system using malware bytes and
I did not send that earlier message with the link. I'll do a full system
scan, sorry about this as I have only been on a laptop since last
Weekend and it does have virus protection on it.
Gary K8IZ
On 7/25/2011 1:25 AM, Peter Blodow wrote:
Don't look at this web page - its an advertisement.
On 25 July 2011 13:07, Gary Fiber gfi...@comcast.net wrote:
I did not send that earlier message with the link. I'll do a full system
scan, sorry about this as I have only been on a laptop since last
Weekend and it does have virus protection on it.
There is every chance that the message never
The usual case for those spams is as follows:
1) A windows PC is infected with malware
2) It sends spams from the user's webmail accounts
Since I am using Linux for everything, I never have been infected, but it
happens to some of my friends.
i
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:35 AM, andy pugh
I I rarely use Comcast's web interface. I use Thunderbird for almost
all of my email except for yahoo and gmail.
Since this is a work computer no Linux allowed on it by our IT department.
I'll keep an watch on it if it persists I remove myself from the list to
see if that stops it.
Gary K8IZ
On Monday, July 25, 2011 10:44:48 AM Peter Blodow did opine:
Don't look at this web page - its an advertisement.
It might also be an attack vector Peter. I don't look at such out of place
crap even if I am running linux. It gets manually moved to a 'spam,'
folder, and cron runs sa-learn
On Monday, July 25, 2011 11:04:19 AM Gary Fiber did opine:
I I rarely use Comcast's web interface. I use Thunderbird for almost
all of my email except for yahoo and gmail.
Since this is a work computer no Linux allowed on it by our IT
department.
He/she/them, is/are an idiot, and have been
I hope that Gary can fix his virus infestation.
I also want to mention that my biggest fear regarding viruses is not that
they would send spam on my behalf, but that they would go to my bank account
and steal the money.
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:07 AM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
On
What most likely happened (if the pc isn't infected) is someone figured
out the email password. My wife had this happen with her yahoo mail
account. Someone in china figured out her email address password - got
in and emailed everyone in her address book. (it wasn't as bad as it
could have
I don't think that's the case here, though because the spammer would
have had to have known that Gary was a member of this list. Most
likely his password got compromised and his address book was used to
send the message.
That's been the case for most instances of this that I've seen lately.
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 12:20 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
... snip
I simply could not find a use for XP or anything that came with it.
... snip
I had to fill out some government (USDA) forms a while back using
Formatta Filler which only comes in Windows or Mac:
On Monday, July 25, 2011 12:35:38 PM andy pugh did opine:
http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6638_102-400029.html
Suggests that the problem might be that someone has gained access to
a webmail contacts list. If you don't use the webmail then deleting
all the contacts there might be worthwhile. Or
On Monday, July 25, 2011 12:52:29 PM Kirk Wallace did opine:
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 12:20 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
... snip
I simply could not find a use for XP or anything that came with it.
... snip
I had to fill out some government (USDA) forms a while back using
Formatta
Peter Blodow wrote:
Don't look at this web page - its an advertisement. Isn't there a way to
keep those crooks out of this list, a firewall, a spam checker or similar
Somebody has to check each join request and decide if the proposed
member looks legit or
not, and then decide whether to let
Gary Fiber wrote:
I DID NOT personally send that earlier message with the link
It looks like SourceForge preserves the full message headers of posts,
so you can check
where the message really originated from.
It may be the message was not sent from
your computer at all, but was sent by forging
On 07/25/2011 07:35 AM, andy pugh wrote:
On 25 July 2011 13:07, Gary Fibergfi...@comcast.net wrote:
I did not send that earlier message with the link. I'll do a full system
scan, sorry about this as I have only been on a laptop since last
Weekend and it does have virus protection on it.
2011/7/25 Mark Cason farmerboy1...@yahoo.com:
Doing whois on the various IP's finds this little gem. Does anybody on
this list live in Latvia?
I do!
Please don't tell me that You suspect this place as the main source of spam :))
Do You want to check some info in header of email that is sent
Could be Sam as the original email appeared on the comcast.net web
interface sent list. I have scanned this system using malware bytes and
Microsofts anti virus and nothing found.
I'll have to change my comcast password.
On 7/25/2011 8:31 AM, sam sokolik wrote:
What most likely happened (if
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:12:52 + (UTC), you wrote:
hello! http://www.laratonda.net/winter.html?veaolID=axkf
Come on guys give it a rest - 23 emails all regarding some spam??
That must count as spam alone !
Steve Blackmore
--
On 07/25/2011 02:26 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote:
2011/7/25 Mark Casonfarmerboy1...@yahoo.com:
Doing whois on the various IP's finds this little gem. Does anybody on
this list live in Latvia?
I do!
Please don't tell me that You suspect this place as the main source of spam
:))
Do You want to
On 07/25/2011 02:49 PM, Steve Blackmore wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:12:52 + (UTC), you wrote:
hello! http://www.laratonda.net/winter.html?veaolID=axkf
Come on guys give it a rest - 23 emails all regarding some spam??
That must count as spam alone !
Steve Blackmore
--
Sorry, I
Steve,
Seeing that this is the first spam message I can recall on this list,
perhaps it is worth discussing just how this one got here?
I am on other lists and it seems like the amount of spam making it onto
lists is increasing.
Dave
On 7/25/2011 3:49 PM, Steve Blackmore wrote:
On Mon, 25
Mark Cason wrote:
Doing whois on the various IP's finds this little gem. Does anybody on
this list live in Latvia?
[Sun Jul 24, 21:48:57][~]
[mcason@laptop]$ whois 95.68.95.168
OHHH, so it is X-originating-IP that is the IP of the original sender!
Thanks for finding that,
I completely
Hello to the List, I'm Fabio from Italy.
Sorry for my pooor english:)
I'm building a nc mill machine together with a
pair of friends. Motors on 3 axis are steppers,
drivers are MD542, interface is parallel port.
I have mounted encoders on
steppers to stop the machine on following errors
and it
Ok, here are my ini and hal files:
ini file http://pastebin.com/m1f843e64
hal file http://pastebin.com/m252d5820
custom hal file http://pastebin.com/m3c19e995
Is there anyone that can help me?
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Fabio.
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 10:54 +0200, fabi...@quipo.it wrote:
Hello to the List, I'm Fabio from Italy.
Sorry for my pooor english:)
I'm building a nc mill machine together with a
pair of friends. Motors on 3 axis are steppers,
drivers are MD542, interface is parallel port.
I have mounted
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 21:31 +0200, fabi...@quipo.it wrote:
Ok so I understand that there's some work to
do to obtain stepper+encoder+home on index.
After I'll have tested all on real hardware, I'll
try to use PID + stepgen in speed mode.
Thanks to Kirk Wallace and Jeff Epler.
Fabio.
Thanks
Brothers and Sisters,
We are a group of final year students in Cairo university, Egypt. Studying
electrical power and machines, our graduation project will be the electrical
control system of a 3-axis CNC mill. I have chosen EMC for computer machine
control, over Mach3 and others, mainly because
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:47:42PM +0200, Ahmed Elghamrawi wrote:
1. What is the best way to communicate with the computer, and EMC? the
parallel port seems (from reading the HAL manual) to be easy enough?
2. What else do we need to know or start reading about to do it?
3. Does EMC have a
slightly worried that a factory specifying that it has to work and
reasonable accuracy (not a unit I know (-:), its a educational project,
and in my country we are not judged on the end product beeing finished, but
the product beeing well documented up to the point we have reached, and its
visible
Welcome.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:47:42PM +0200, Ahmed Elghamrawi wrote:
So.. blah blah.. how i am what i do.. the point is: were to begin?
We have a fair idea what programming should be, studied that but we have
never did it for real. We don't have an actual machine in our hands yet, but
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 21:47 +0200, Ahmed Elghamrawi wrote:
... snip
Since we are getting financial support from a local factory to build
this for them, it has to work.. and work with a reasonable accuracy.
EMC2 can give you what you need. It's more up to your effort and budget.
So.. blah
snip
Ahmed,
In addition to the directions of Chris, Kim, Jeff, and Kirk, if you are
looking at additional open source tools for this project - particularly
driver boards, there are several open source board projects underway at
CNCzone.org in the electronics forum. The projects include servo
On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Kim Mortensen wrote:
slightly worried that a factory specifying that it has to work and
reasonable accuracy (not a unit I know (-:), its a educational project,
and in my country we are not judged on the end product beeing finished, but
the product beeing well
Hello to Ahmed.
I acknowledge that the advice to you from the superior metalcutters of
this email society have value, but I suggest a different approach.
1. Download a copy of the EMC - Hardy Heron ISO, and install it on a few
computers.
1.1 This will give you local copies of the
Hey Ahmed,
hello and a good morning back to Egypt. After seeing the many replies
that you've already gotten, i'll just recommend that you carefully read
the emc2 documentation, especially the integrator's manual.
How big is the 3 axis mill that you plan to work on ? Will you be
driving the
--- Jim Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
I'd like to get the
tool changer
fixed, one of the problems with the machine, the Y axis either
encoder or
amp malfunctioned, and ran the spindle into the tool changer arm
and bent it
up. and I need to figure out if its the encoder or amp,
I'm hooking up the encoder to parport circuit right now, decided to take a
break from that and check the email. the mill is going to be set even
farther back, until i can get my car fixed. i wrecked it tonight, a deer
jumped out and between the brakes and swerving, i lost it. so if anyone has
Hello everyone on the emc users list! My name is Jim and I hope we'll be
getting to know each other pretty well. I'm a machinist, living in Ohio.
Straight out of high school (vocational school, 2 years of 'Precision
Machining Technologies') I'm working part time at a local machine shop
running 3
i was gonna use pixies. and i have a scope, an old tektronix dual trace,
only problem is it was recently through a flood, and i havnt cleaned it out
and i'll probably have to replace a bunch of pots i think, hopefully the
varialbe caps will be alright. it hasnt been in calibration for 20 years,
Hi Jim,
This machine should make a fine conversion to emc.
Relevant material is on the emc wiki.
Just go to the 'Page Index' and look at the different listings under
Mazak.
also: http://webpages.charter.net/bengvall/emc/emcconversion.html
Your most difficult problem may be to decide what
Hello, i'm Carlos and i trying to complie the source code the version is
emc2.1.4.tar.gz
And when i
cd src
./configure --enable-run-in-place
make
make install
am get this error...
Compiling emc/usr_intf/axis/extensions/seticon.c
Linking python module _tk_seticon.so
Compiling
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