[Emc-users] 7i43 firmware for 7i39 card

2013-07-05 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello! Can anyone share firmware of 7i43 card for 7i39 boards? It seems that TPEN4_5.BIT, which comes with hostmot2 firmware package, is not the right one. There are several messages in mailing list history that this combination has been used, so I would appreciate anyone to share the firmware

[Emc-users] 7i43-P + 7i39 firmware

2013-07-05 Thread propcoder
Where to get one? I found some forums, but the links to those files are not working anymore. BTW, I can't remember my linuxcnc.org forum password and I can't change it - forgot your password function does not work for me.

Re: [Emc-users] Cutting involute spur gears with 4 axis?

2013-07-05 Thread Chris Kelley
Gregg, I've been playing with doing almost exactly what you are talking about. I've even cut some proof-of-concept involute gears using only a gcode program that generates the gear. Here's some images of the test part (aluminum): http://i.imgur.com/0AYZbpi.jpg and

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 firmware for 7i39 card

2013-07-05 Thread propcoder
I have 7i43-P (parallel only), which is 200K. And I get: [ 4088.735773] hm2: loading Mesa HostMot2 driver version 0.15 [ 4088.741550] hm2_7i43: loading HostMot2 Mesa 7i43 driver version 0.3 [ 4088.743592] hm2_7i43.0: firmware: requesting hm2/7i43-2/SVSTTP4_4_7I39.BIT [ 4088.747515]

Re: [Emc-users] Cutting involute spur gears with 4 axis?

2013-07-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 July 2013 15:24, Chris Kelley tensait...@gmail.com wrote: I've been playing with doing almost exactly what you are talking about. I've even cut some proof-of-concept involute gears using only a gcode program that generates the gear. That is fairly cool, and might be a good solution for

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 firmware for 7i39 card

2013-07-05 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, propcoder wrote: Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 17:36:14 +0300 From: propcoder marius.alks...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 firmware for 7i39 card I have

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 firmware for 7i39 card

2013-07-05 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/7/5 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com SVSTTP4_4 was a custom bitfile made for Viesturs (with stepgens outputs on the sense lines) I did not make a 200K version since he had a 400K card Yes, that was a long time ago, 2 or 3 years IIRC, so I am now little amazed, how did Andrew get it to

[Emc-users] Servo issue

2013-07-05 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello! I am stuck with a servo motor issue that I have no idea for the cause. Machine has 5i23 and 2x 7i39 cards with total of 4 servo motors. I set it up 2 months ago and it was working correctly. Machine was idle for few weeks until now. Motors 0, 1, 2 are working correctly, motor 3 does not

Re: [Emc-users] Cutting involute spur gears with 4 axis?

2013-07-05 Thread Ron Bean
There's a good, cheap gear generator program here: http://woodgears.ca/gear/index.html This is for 3-axis machines. It has a lot of nice features, including planetary gears, lantern gears, and even roller chain sprockets.

Re: [Emc-users] Servo issue

2013-07-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 July 2013 16:45, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: 4) I tried to spin the motor in bldc config=n with bldc.value 0.15 and bldc.frequency explicitly set at 0,15 and 3 respectively (motor should slowly rotate as soon as pwmgen is enabled), but it moves just a very little and

Re: [Emc-users] Servo issue

2013-07-05 Thread Jon Elson
Viesturs Lācis wrote: The drive is ok, motor is ok, cable is ok, but now they are not working together. Everything was fine few weeks ago. Make sure, with a voltmeter, that the commutation signals from the motor are working, and giving a valid logic swing as you rotate the motors. Some Hall

Re: [Emc-users] Servo issue

2013-07-05 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/7/5 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com Viesturs Lācis wrote: The drive is ok, motor is ok, cable is ok, but now they are not working together. Everything was fine few weeks ago. Make sure, with a voltmeter, that the commutation signals from the motor are working, and giving a valid

Re: [Emc-users] Servo issue

2013-07-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 July 2013 17:18, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: Make sure, with a voltmeter, that the commutation signals from the motor are working, In n mode the system should be acting like a dumb vfd, and no commutation is used. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it.

Re: [Emc-users] Servo issue

2013-07-05 Thread alex chiosso
Hi Viesturs. Did you already check the motor windings resistence/impedence ? Did the motor get any kind of torque ? On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/7/5 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com Viesturs Lācis wrote: The drive is ok, motor is

Re: [Emc-users] Servo issue

2013-07-05 Thread alex chiosso
oh sorry . Sure you already did it . Sometimes appened that you can measure the cable resistence with the multimeter and everything seems ok but after that if you apply voltage to the wires the problems come . Did you use extra flexible cables for the motor supply ? Are the cables fitted inside a

Re: [Emc-users] Servo issue

2013-07-05 Thread Viesturs Lācis
The motor works fine, when I swapped it on the machine with another one. 2013/7/5 alex chiosso achio...@gmail.com Hi Viesturs. Did you already check the motor windings resistence/impedence ? Did the motor get any kind of torque ? On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Viesturs Lācis

Re: [Emc-users] Servo issue

2013-07-05 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/7/5 alex chiosso achio...@gmail.com Did you use extra flexible cables for the motor supply ? I do not understand, what you mean. Are the cables fitted inside a cable chain ? Yes. If yes are you sure that the cable fitting respect the manufacturer specifications ? This is motor

Re: [Emc-users] Servo issue

2013-07-05 Thread alex chiosso
First all the cable must be shielded. Secondary fot this kind of application you need at least flexible shielded cables. If you search for on google I am sure you will find many cable manufacturers for that kind. Il giorno 05/lug/2013 17:57, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com ha scritto:

Re: [Emc-users] ubu 10.04.4 LTS Q

2013-07-05 Thread John Morris
On 07/04/2013 02:47 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings; I just put 8Gb of dram in this machine, and the bios recognized it just fine. But the 32 bit SMP/PAE kernel in the LinuxCNC tree only sees 4 Gb. This kernel: 2.6.32-122-rtai

Re: [Emc-users] ubu 10.04.4 LTS Q

2013-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2013 10:03:27 sa...@empirescreen.com did opine: I think testers are always welcome.. :) http://imagebin.org/index.php?mode=imageid=263115 http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NewRTInstall Near the bottom of this link above is a link to Anders Wallins page, but there

Re: [Emc-users] Servo issue

2013-07-05 Thread alex chiosso
Of course is not the shield the problem! The issue is that the cable used seems to be not ok. Shield is anyway a must for servo applications. And a flexible or extra flexible is a must for mobile cable chain/tray. I know about cables not working after time due to mechanical stress. Il giorno

Re: [Emc-users] Servo issue

2013-07-05 Thread Dave
.75 mm^2 is a light. I probably would have gone with at least 1.25 to 1.5 mm^2, but if you have rung out the cables for continuity, that is not going to keep things from moving. And this setup was working before.. right? Igus sells some very nice shielded trailing (Hi Flex) cables for

Re: [Emc-users] ubu 10.04.4 LTS Q

2013-07-05 Thread Eric Keller
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 1:22 PM, John Morris j...@zultron.com wrote: The Xenomai folks say that PAE adds a lot of overhead to memory access, and they recommend avoiding PAE kernels for RT. For that reason, I'd stick with the non-PAE kernel until something 64-bit becomes suitable for your

Re: [Emc-users] Servo issue

2013-07-05 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/7/5 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com Did you check for pin-to-pin shorts in the wiring? That seems very unlikely, but I will check that to be completely sure. 2013/7/5 Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com .75 mm^2 is a light. I probably would have gone with at least 1.25 to 1.5 mm^2, but if you have

Re: [Emc-users] More progress with by BBB

2013-07-05 Thread Troy Jacobson
I might have a lead on the two problematic PWM pins. P8.36: All of the docs that I've seen don't show this pin being assigned to a pru. Does this mean that it isn't available to use with the PRU based pwm generator? It looks like it might have been used with the build-in pwm (ehrpwm) with the

Re: [Emc-users] More progress with by BBB

2013-07-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The only problems I have had with pins is when I assign more than one thing to drive them (ie: both the PRU and the hal_bb_gpio driver) or get the muxing wrong in the device tree overlay. The PRU can talk to any GPIO pin on the device, as well as the

Re: [Emc-users] Servo issue

2013-07-05 Thread Kenneth Lerman
See below... On 7/5/2013 11:45 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: Hello! I am stuck with a servo motor issue that I have no idea for the cause. Machine has 5i23 and 2x 7i39 cards with total of 4 servo motors. I set it up 2 months ago and it was working correctly. Machine was idle for few weeks until

Re: [Emc-users] ubu 10.04.4 LTS Q

2013-07-05 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Eric Keller eekel...@psu.edu wrote: My experience is that, in general, 64 bit makes things slower on the same hardware. I was going to try to run 64bit on my new machine and decided 32 was good enough. Maybe when it's easier, I'll switch Well, 64-bit mode

Re: [Emc-users] Cutting involute spur gears with 4 axis?

2013-07-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Looks very interesting. Here's a gear I want to make on a CNC mill. http://partsbyemc.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_infocPath=2products_id=102 I cast those in Zamak in a silicone mold. Some people still manage to break them. Milled from 7075 aluminum On Fri, 7/5/13, Chris Kelley

[Emc-users] Shizuoka on eBay

2013-07-05 Thread Kirk Wallace
In case someone forgot to buy this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/290928102085 This one is a little larger than my ST-N. It should be around 4,000 lbs. The seller should be able to help with arranging shipping. It looks like it has servos and resolvers, but mine has steppers, so I don't know for

Re: [Emc-users] Shizuoka on eBay

2013-07-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 July 2013 23:38, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: In case someone forgot to buy this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/290928102085 Following links: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sigma-Milling-Machine/300925762230 Looks seriously under-bid to me. That's one stiff looking mill. -- atp If

[Emc-users] 6i25 StepGen

2013-07-05 Thread Kirk Wallace
I need to output quadrature stepping from a 6i25. Do I have any options in this regard, other than bit banging or external circuitry? Thank you. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/

Re: [Emc-users] Shizuoka on eBay

2013-07-05 Thread Pete Matos
Long Live the Shiz!! Pete On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.comwrote: In case someone forgot to buy this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/290928102085 This one is a little larger than my ST-N. It should be around 4,000 lbs. The seller should be able to help

Re: [Emc-users] 6i25 StepGen

2013-07-05 Thread andy pugh
On 6 July 2013 00:29, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: I need to output quadrature stepping from a 6i25. Do you mean 6i25? There are many 6i25 firmwares that output step pulses, those are always FPGA-sourced rather than daughterboard sourced. The standard 7i76 firmware will be

Re: [Emc-users] 6i25 StepGen

2013-07-05 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, Kirk Wallace wrote: Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 16:29:44 -0700 From: Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [Emc-users] 6i25 StepGen

2013-07-05 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 07/05/2013 05:13 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 6 July 2013 00:29, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: I need to output quadrature stepping from a 6i25. Do you mean 6i25? There are many 6i25 firmwares that output step pulses, those are always FPGA-sourced rather than daughterboard

Re: [Emc-users] 6i25 StepGen

2013-07-05 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 07/05/2013 05:38 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: ... snip Sure the Hostmot2 stepgen has 3 output modes: 0 step/dir 1 up/down 2 quadrature ... snip Sure enough, I see it now. Parameters - step_type - (u32, RW) Output format, like the step_type modparam to the software stegen(9) component. 0

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 firmware for 7i39 card

2013-07-05 Thread propcoder
Peter, would it be possible to make 7I43/7I39 firmware for 200K? Now it appears I need it.. From the other side - how to use svtp4_7i43-200 with 7i39? I think there will be different pinout, at least.. On 07/05/2013 05:51 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: SVSTTP4_4 was a custom bitfile made for

Re: [Emc-users] Shizuoka on eBay

2013-07-05 Thread Hubert Bahr
While I don't need to add a new project at this time this does peak my interest, but it brings up some questions. What type of capabilities can we expect to get by retrofitting one of these older NC machines? I would think they should be more capable than a Chinese mill conversion but what

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 firmware for 7i39 card

2013-07-05 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/7/6 propcoder marius.alks...@gmail.com Peter, would it be possible to make 7I43/7I39 firmware for 200K? Now it appears I need it.. That particular 400K version was made specially for me, because I needed step/dir signal from stepgen to be routed through sense A and sense B lines on 7i39