I picked up a Sherline mini mill in late '06, and their mini lathe in early '07, and then essentially never used them. I worked too much, and couldn't run them in my apartment building by the time I'd get home. Now I'm in a house, and have been trying to get it all set up again, but I have to say that unfortunately I've had nothing but troubles for about a month now trying to get EMC2 and my mill set up properly. I need to say that I do appreciate the efforts of the group, and am committed to getting this to work, and I love free/open software, but alas, I'm still trying to get even the simple things working correctly after many weeks.
The #1 issue right now, as I'm afraid it could be responsible for the inaccuracies I'm seeing in what I'm trying to make, is the error message I get almost every time I fire up the program: RTAPI: unexpected realtime delay on task 1 There are 5 pages available through Google on the matter, and they don't answer the question, beyond hinting I should change my base period. I read whatever I could find awhile back about setting up the latency, but couldn't really make heads nor tails of it. The information in a few docs I found online didn't match up with anything I was seeing on the screen, and I don't have intimate knowledge of these things, so was unable to guess at anything. Tonight, I ran the latency-test again, and having again been handed many numbers that don't mean anything to me (and aren't explained anywhere I've been able to find), I decided to just use the "Base Thread (25.0 µs)" "Max Jitter (NS)" in my inch.ini file for BASE_PERIOD - a total guess, but it seemed right. The error stopped occurring, for a few more launches, but then returned. I understand absolutely nothing about any of this, so I have no next step. The default BASE_PERIOD in the file was IIRC 50000. I've tried down to 10000 (makes it super slow to load up), and up to the very high number I got from my latency tests - 187525 - and even 200000. The error always comes back. Am I going to have to build the software from source (for some reason, as indicated in some of my Google finds?). I'll save my other curiosities for future emails, as I don't want this important bit to get lost in a flood of other questions :) Thanks very much! -Gary ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
