Re: [Emc-users] OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
1982 is a spring chicken for an American nuclear power plant. Three Mile Island and Fukushima are older, with the walls of lamps, switches and gauges. On Sunday, March 10, 2019, 10:18:07 AM MDT, Jon Elson wrote: On 03/09/2019 10:43 PM, Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > But such sy

[Emc-users] Cheap vs expensive solar Re: OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
This guy in Australia tested a cheap $90 100 watt panel and one that cost a lot more. The $90 panel significantly out performed the expensive panel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-sc4rlV93g Commenters noted that the cheap panel is using PV cells of the newest technology, with all contacts on

[Emc-users] More cheap solar. Re: OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
This one has to be too good to be true. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1500w-Flexible-Solar-Panel-Kit-System-120A-Controller-3000w-Inverter-House-Boat/333107282098 Says it includes 15 100W panels, connecting cables, inverter etc. for $89. Dunno what else would be required to tie it into a domestic power

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc brain surgery

2019-03-11 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 04:09, TJoseph Powderly wrote: > > https://ciis.lcsr.jhu.edu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=courses:446:2016:446-2016-18:project_18_main_page > but where does the LinuxCNC Rocket Science class meet? > pretty cool kins too As far as I know nobody from this project ever asked a questio

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
Pebble bed reactors work quite well and are meltdown proof. A core of enriched uranium pellets are surrounded by seven alternating layers of ceramic and graphite. Detractors of the design claim that there are always cracks in the layers. Big deal, that's why there are seven layers. The chance o

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
Three Mile Island and Chernobyl get all the attention because TMI was a meltdown and Chernobyl exploded and melted, there's a solidified blob of insanely radioactive stuff in the basement. It used to visibly glow but has cooled down in temperature over they years. But the other deadly nuclear in

Re: [Emc-users] Cheap vs expensive solar Re: OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 11.03.19 09:19, Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > This guy in Australia tested a cheap $90 100 watt panel and one that > cost a lot more. The $90 panel significantly out performed the > expensive panel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-sc4rlV93g Commenters > noted that the cheap panel is usi

Re: [Emc-users] Cheap vs expensive solar Re: OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Peter Rosenblom
Den mån 11 mars 2019 12:10Erik Christiansen skrev: > On 11.03.19 09:19, Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > > This guy in Australia tested a cheap $90 100 watt panel and one that > > cost a lot more. The $90 panel significantly out performed the > > expensive panel.https://www.youtube.com/watch

Re: [Emc-users] Cheap vs expensive solar Re: OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Peter Rosenblom
Den mån 11 mars 2019 12:10Erik Christiansen skrev: > On 11.03.19 09:19, Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > > This guy in Australia tested a cheap $90 100 watt panel and one that > > cost a lot more. The $90 panel significantly out performed the > > expensive panel.https://www.youtube.com/watch

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Peter Blodow
Jon, some time ago I was CET of a large research plant where we had a small  GE reactor, specialized for production of radiation, not power. We also used other radiation sources like gamma sources (cobalt), accelerators, lasers and aside from that, ultrasonic generators. Several hundreds of my

Re: [Emc-users] More cheap solar. Re: OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Dave Matthews
That looks way too good to be true so it probably isn't. If you do set up a grid attached system be sure to have your utility install the correct meter or you will get to pay for every bit you pump into their system too. Old style meters only counted the watt hours going through them and didn't c

[Emc-users] OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Roland Jollivet
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 16:10, Peter Blodow wrote: Suddenly, a wave occurred, higher than the usual ones, so that they had > to run back to dry grounds, but all of them got we pants. He wondered > why that nuclear plant was built so close to the sea, considering the > fact that even without any ca

Re: [Emc-users] kinematics problem

2019-03-11 Thread yomin estiven jaramillo munera
hi guys, we entered the D-H parameters like I showed you and our problem in this moment is that in world mode our arm is not moving but it can move itself when we are working in joint mode what could is our mistake? El mié., 6 de mar. de 2019 a la(s) 21:20, yomin estiven jaramillo munera ( yejm...

Re: [Emc-users] kinematics problem

2019-03-11 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 16:04, yomin estiven jaramillo munera wrote: > > hi guys, we entered the D-H parameters like I showed you and our problem in > this moment is that in world mode our arm is not moving but it can move > itself when we are working in joint mode > what could is our mistake? Is

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc brain surgery

2019-03-11 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/10/2019 11:07 PM, TJoseph Powderly wrote: https://ciis.lcsr.jhu.edu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=courses:446:2016:446-2016-18:project_18_main_page but where does the LinuxCNC Rocket Science class meet? Oh...MYGod!! Well, NIST did a system for ultrasonic inspection of C-5 aircraft with a co

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/11/2019 12:56 AM, Greg Bernard wrote: Thanks once again, Jon. I've slowly been coming to the same conclusion, though lacking the detailed knowledge as you. The part that concerns me the most however is your caveat of being "run by a competent organization". ;) Well, this is a KEY part! Th

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/11/2019 01:34 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 11 March 2019 01:56:40 Greg Bernard wrote: Thanks once again, Jon. I've slowly been coming to the same conclusion, though lacking the detailed knowledge as you. The part that concerns me the most however is your caveat of being "run by a com

Re: [Emc-users] More cheap solar. Re: OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/11/2019 09:47 AM, Dave Matthews wrote: That looks way too good to be true so it probably isn't. REALLY! 15 panels plus inverter, $89 with FREE shipping from Hong Kong?!?!? We will have to watch that and see if it gets pulled. These are unframed panels, so you'd need to come up with a

Re: [Emc-users] More cheap solar. Re: OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Chris Albertson
This would work OK for it's intende use, an off-grid way to recharge some batteries. But for a normal house, it is at least 10X undersize, maybe 20X. It would not even run a toaster. On a small boat house boat there would be an engine with an alternator that is the primary source of power when

Re: [Emc-users] Cheap vs expensive solar Re: OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:19:48 + (UTC) Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > This guy in Australia tested a cheap $90 100 watt panel and one that cost a > lot more. The $90 panel significantly out performed the expensive > panel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-sc4rlV93g I think there are

Re: [Emc-users] STM32 Blue Pill

2019-03-11 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
> ... > I upgraded the System Workbench for STM32 on my WIN-7 system and tried for > over an hour to create a simple Hello World Project. It's been years since I > touched the ST family. ... Now I think think it work really well but remember I had to struggle a while before. I prefer the new

Re: [Emc-users] STM32 Blue Pill --> Microchip pin configuration

2019-03-11 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
> Too true. The level of support for Microchip still exceed many of the other > systems. Having said that I'd still rather use MPLAB-8 compared to MPLAB-X > but I can see why Microchip had to go in that direction. ... I remember Microchip Micro controllers have a lot more freedom then it come

Re: [Emc-users] Cheap vs expensive solar Re: OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Chris Albertson
This guy cherry picked his products to make a review that would generate "clicks" for his you-tube channel. One thing that matters is durability. A new system that is professionally installed will come with a 20-year warranty. That says a lot. Building electronics that can survive for 20 year

Re: [Emc-users] STM32 Blue Pill

2019-03-11 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
> About the ICE, all ARM processors have hardware debuggers built-in. > This helps a LOT with the case you described where you must > debugging in the field. Just any notebook PC and a USB cable. Debugger for ARM is good. Trace function is really good then available, printf(...) is often very

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc brain surgery

2019-03-11 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 16:43, Jon Elson wrote: > > On 03/10/2019 11:07 PM, TJoseph Powderly wrote: > > https://ciis.lcsr.jhu.edu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=courses:446:2016:446-2016-18:project_18_main_page > Oh...MYGod!! It is laser-cutting skull repair parts offline, not cutting the holes in the

[Emc-users] Re More cheap solar.

2019-03-11 Thread Marshland Engineering
>This one has to be too good to be true. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1500w-Flexible-Solar-Panel-Kit-System-120A-Controller-3000w-Inverter-House-Boat/333107282098 If you search Ebay with the description 500w-Flexible-Solar-Panel-Kit-System-120A-Controller-3000w you will see the $89 kit and below it th

Re: [Emc-users] Cheap vs expensive solar Re: OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 17:50, Chris Albertson wrote: > https://www.tesla.com/solarroof > People are skeptical of these so Tesla offers a lifetime warranty. The nails holding the laths to the trusses will probably fail first. That's the failure mode of one of my parents house roofs, which is sta

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc brain surgery

2019-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 March 2019 15:13:11 andy pugh wrote: > On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 16:43, Jon Elson wrote: > > On 03/10/2019 11:07 PM, TJoseph Powderly wrote: > > > https://ciis.lcsr.jhu.edu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=courses:446:2016:44 > > >6-2016-18:project_18_main_page > > > > Oh...MYGod!! > > It is la

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc brain surgery

2019-03-11 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/11/2019 02:13 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 16:43, Jon Elson wrote: On 03/10/2019 11:07 PM, TJoseph Powderly wrote: https://ciis.lcsr.jhu.edu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=courses:446:2016:446-2016-18:project_18_main_page Oh...MYGod!! It is laser-cutting skull repair parts off

Re: [Emc-users] Cheap vs expensive solar Re: OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 11.03.19 15:02, Peter Rosenblom wrote: > Den mån 11 mars 2019 12:10Erik Christiansen skrev: [full quote of my post, but nothing else.] Peter, I expected that the second post, a minute after the first, would correct the omission of any text from you, but there's still nothing. I hope you manag

[Emc-users] until I get chips for C1G, moving everything to the 7i76

2019-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
For PCW. I have 100's of 1N914's. And I'm going use some 12 volt coil 4pdt relays in din rail sockets, that when on will draw around 180 ma from a 12 volt supply. Thats well within the on ratings of a 7i76 output. Are the 1N914's enough to protect the 7i76 from the off edge back emf, or do I n

Re: [Emc-users] Cheap vs expensive solar Re: OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 11.03.19 18:34, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:19:48 + (UTC) > Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > > > This guy in Australia tested a cheap $90 100 watt panel and one that > > cost a lot more. The $90 panel significantly out performed the > > expensive panel.https://www

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc brain surgery

2019-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 March 2019 21:25:58 Jon Elson wrote: > On 03/11/2019 02:13 PM, andy pugh wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 16:43, Jon Elson wrote: > >> On 03/10/2019 11:07 PM, TJoseph Powderly wrote: > >>> https://ciis.lcsr.jhu.edu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=courses:446:2016:44 > >>>6-2016-18:project_18_

Re: [Emc-users] until I get chips for C1G, moving everything to the 7i76

2019-03-11 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, Gene Heskett wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 21:55:59 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] until I get chips for C1G, moving everything to the 7i76 For PCW. I have 100's of 1N914

Re: [Emc-users] Cheap vs expensive solar Re: OT: Where's them fires. [Was: Re Conversational mode.

2019-03-11 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 11.03.19 10:48, Chris Albertson wrote: > Another option. Here in So Calif on the "west side" home prices start > at about $1M. So the math works differently from say Rural Oklahoma. > A $25,000 electrical system only adds 2.5% to the price of the home > and less percent to the more expensive h

Re: [Emc-users] until I get chips for C1G, moving everything to the 7i76

2019-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 March 2019 22:11:51 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 21:55:59 -0400 > > From: Gene Heskett > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Emc-users] until I