If the motors are humming, you might have the pins and everything set up
right in EMC, just tryin to use a feed rate that is too fast for the motors
to keep up with. try moving the feed override slider in AXIS down to just a
couple percent, and see how that works out.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:10 PM, rick dell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> thanks for your help i will try a different computer the motors would just
> hum so this makes sense thanks
> rick
>
>
>
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> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:49:20 -0700
> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] aio-500
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 00:18 +0000, rick dell wrote:
> > > yes the link you sent me is the correct item. the computer i am
> > > trying to use is an old compaq laptop. as far as my configuration goes
> > > i am lost, i set it up according to there directions on the program
> > > they suggest to use but have not configured it correctly ( or even
> > > close for emc) which is the program i really want to use. any help is
> > > appreciated
> > >
> > > rick
> >
> > Laptops can have a number of problems with EMC2. See:
> >
> > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Hardware_Requirements
> > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Latency-Test
> >
> > Some don't work well with the real-time kernel. Some laptops and
> > motherboard parallel ports have 3 Volt outputs or drivers that don't
> > have enough power to drive some motor board inputs. I would suggest
> > trying to find a free or nearly free desktop computer and use a PCI
> > parallel port. The PCI cards seem to have better output drivers and if
> > you blow one up you are only out ~$16.
> >
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815166007
> >
> > You may want to start with EMC2 straight away because I don't think what
> > you might learn from another software program will apply to EMC2. There
> > is a Stepconf wizard or utility that will do allot of the setup for you.
> >
> > http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//config_stepconf.html
> >
> > If needed, you can manually edit the configuration files to work out any
> > details.
> >
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