Re: [Emc-users] Replacing Fanuc controller on Johnford VMC-500 mill

2016-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 April 2016 10:30:15 Ormund Williams wrote: > On Sat, 2016-04-09 at 00:56 +0100, Andy Pugh wrote: > > First question: is it possible to connect LinuxCNC to these servo > > > > > amplifiers? > > > > Yes.  > > Now that's encouraging. > > > But, be prepared for a Project. This will

Re: [Emc-users] Replacing Fanuc controller on Johnford VMC-500 mill

2016-04-10 Thread Ormund Williams
On Sat, 2016-04-09 at 00:56 +0100, Andy Pugh wrote: > First question: is it possible to connect LinuxCNC to these servo > > amplifiers? > Yes.  Now that's encouraging. > But, be prepared for a Project. This will involve you learning a lot > about your machine and a lot about machine control

Re: [Emc-users] Replacing Fanuc controller on Johnford VMC-500 mill

2016-04-10 Thread Peter Blodow
Dave, we have a server domain www.kontent.de which hosts our accounts, look it up. I don't know where the firm is situated, supposedly here in Germany. I still have a ISDN telephone line although the German Telekom tends to abolish them all, but can't everywhere because of bad and long

Re: [Emc-users] Replacing Fanuc controller on Johnford VMC-500 mill

2016-04-10 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sun, 10 Apr 2016, Ormund Williams wrote: > Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 10:30:15 -0400 > From: Ormund Williams > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" >

Re: [Emc-users] Replacing Fanuc controller on Johnford VMC-500 mill

2016-04-10 Thread Dave Cole
Who hosts your domain? Here in the US most DSL providers no longer allow a SMTP server on their networks so although I can setup a Pop mail server to receive mail, I can't send mail without using a SMTP server external to my actual hardware server.This was done supposedly to minimize

Re: [Emc-users] Replacing Fanuc controller on Johnford VMC-500 mill

2016-04-10 Thread Ormund Williams
On Sun, 2016-04-10 at 07:55 -0700, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > Heres what I know >  > The pinouts are available in Fanuc manuals, The older drives use > Honda connectors, the newer use .050 pitch high density connectors > but have similar interfaces until they get to FSSB interfaced drives. >  > The

Re: [Emc-users] Replacing Fanuc controller on Johnford VMC-500 mill

2016-04-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Links got stripped. Search eBay and ye shall find. :) From: Gene Heskett To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, April 9, 2016 11:23 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Replacing Fanuc controller on Johnford VMC-500 mill On Saturday 09 April 2016 06:32:23

Re: [Emc-users] Replacing Fanuc controller on Johnford VMC-500 mill

2016-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 April 2016 06:20:18 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 10 April 2016 04:15:57 Gregg Eshelman wrote: > > Links got stripped. Search eBay and ye shall find. :) > > Why? They don't get stripped when I post them as I'll demo below. Yet > another advantage of using yahoo? Irritating thier

Re: [Emc-users] MPG with dynamic scale

2016-04-10 Thread Andy Pugh
> On 9 Apr 2016, at 23:22, Frederic Rible wrote: > > I would like to drive the size of each jog step according to MPG > rotation velocity I would use "lincurve" with velocity as input and jog scale as output.

Re: [Emc-users] Replacing Fanuc controller on Johnford VMC-500 mill

2016-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 April 2016 04:15:57 Gregg Eshelman wrote: > Links got stripped. Search eBay and ye shall find. :) Why? They don't get stripped when I post them as I'll demo below. Yet another advantage of using yahoo? Irritating thier customers sure seems to be a good way to enhance their

Re: [Emc-users] MPG with dynamic scale

2016-04-10 Thread Frederic Rible
So far, I have interesting results with following HAL configuration using "scale" and "limit1" components. # Jog wheels section net jog-enable halui.mode.is-manual loadrt limit1 count=2 addf limit1.0 servo-thread addf limit1.1 servo-thread loadrt scale count=2 addf scale.0 servo-thread addf

Re: [Emc-users] Replacing Fanuc controller on Johnford VMC-500 mill

2016-04-10 Thread Peter Blodow
Gentlemen, I wonder why everybody makes a fuss of mail providers or the like. Together with a friend, we made up our own domain many years ago, and we never had any problem mailing and sending anything with attachments of unlimited size to and from there. We host about 15 mail accounts, all

Re: [Emc-users] Replacing Fanuc controller on Johnford VMC-500 mill

2016-04-10 Thread Ormund Williams
After looking at the interface between the controller and the servo amp I realize that what we call the servo amp isn't its just the power transistors and the current sens circuit the rest of the servo is in the axis control board of the controller so this is a whole different project. Peter, I