On 3/8/2014 11:46 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On 03/08/2014 07:41 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: >> I am not clear just where you are in your project. You mentioned two weeks >> but is that two weeks from now or two weeks from when you start? >> >> > After looking at the manuals, my first guess is that the changer control > is built into the main controller so LinuxCNC will need to do low level > control. Also it looks like the carousel uses a servo motor and high > count encoder like a regular axis. I have used a Limit2 (3?) component > to good effect on my carousel but I haven't completed that project, so I > can't put that feather in my cap yet. The spindle orientation hasn't > become obvious yet. I'm tending to think two weeks to get the changer > working would be optimistic. If it were my machine, I might get the draw > bar to operate first, then if time runs out, parts could still be made > with manual loading. > > This looks like a capable machine as is, is the controller completely dead?
If there is a servo in there I can't see that being done without someone onsite unless someone has a LOT of time to try and work through it remotely (warning -painful!). The limit3 works fine for machine motion. I have limit3s running a high speed bottle packaging machine and it has been running for a couple of years with no problems. CL is great for state machines since it is relatively easy to debug live. But that means that the changer will require Hal and CL and that is going to get complex. Someone needs to camp out there for some time to build the software and debug the changer one step at a time. Either that, or ship the machine to the person/company doing the software if there is a bunch of other work to do also - as in changeout the controls and rewire the machine. What hardware are you using to control the machine? Mesa boards? Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
