On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Tom wrote: >Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@...> writes: >> A length of real metal electric fence wire, (not plastic unless its real >> kevlar) with the cat-5 hanging from it via those plastic s-hooks you hang >> christmas lights on the gutters with should work until the s-hooks go away >> from the sunlight. I would not tape it directly to the messenger wire if >> its metalic due to the close proximity of the metal in the messenger wire >> effecting its impedance. The s-hooks will give about a 3/4" spacing which >> should be fine. >> >> I used that bright blue cat-5 stuff Belden makes, it is apparently >> surviving the sunshine quite well so far. Far better in fact than I >> expected it to. When I put it up, I figured on maybe a years service max. > >Thanks Gene, >I am responding to you appropriately enough from my barn. Cool! The very > machine controller itself is my window to the EMC2 community. Now I can > pastebin my errors for all the world to see. Verrry nice. >I had no trouble at all installing the ver 2.2.8 update. Now back to fixing > the spindle speed display- >regards, >Tom > Chuckle, good to hear, Tom.
As for the spindle speed display, I can't help. I can control mine, with a PMDX-106, but have no tach feedback. It would be nice though, since the S commands have a 0-9 (or 10, I forget the upper bound), we had some sort of a display widget progress bar that displayed that setting, and changed color from red for the M stop, to green for the M run. Or is there if one sets up the right hal stuff? I haven't a clue. I have in the axis display at present 3 buttons, a plus for fwd, a - for reverse, and a stop in the middle, speed according to how many times I click the + or - direction button. But no speed indication other than how much noise the spindle is making. Which with that sloppily meshed gear drive on the micromill, can be considerable. At some point, I intend to address both the noise and its limited rpm range. For some things, 2500 rpm is about 1/4 what I need. NDI what 10 grand would do to those spindle bearings though. They seem to be ok yet, and probably have 500 hours at 2 grand plus on them now. Which surprises me since I have to use a hammer on the top of the drawbar bolt to change cutter tools. I use a wooden mallet for that generally. Speed display widget in axis? Any thoughts, suggestions? Thanks. > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >-- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, > Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 > to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at >http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finlay Peter Dunne, "Mr. Dooley's Philosophy" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
