Dayum I just looked at this video of a pendant that apparently works on linuxCNC...NICE!! here is a link....peace http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1B_YsfI89s&feature=related
Pete On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Pete Matos <petefro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gene and Dave, > I have been looking all over for the information I need to do this. I > guess my plan is to take it one step at a time and one circuit at a time > and hope for a good result. Again the initial hope here is to get the > basic machine working and then worry about getting fancy with the > toolchanger and a later fourth axis and probing down the road. The mesa > cards seemed like a good fit based on reading some others successes with > large pieces of equipment. I think Lee's machine is of course the most > specifically related to mine in both the base machine as well as how he did > things. The problem there tho is that he is in England and has three phase > power available and has kept some of the controls input electronics to > allow him to use that whereas I have a very nice three phase converter here > that I intend to wean myself off of and go strictly single phase. The rest > of what he did tho is quite interesting and works well for him. The only > thing he did that I am hoping to avoid is NOT doing a true control setup > for the toolchanger. He basically does a kind of G-code control as I > understand it of the toolchanger command. I hope to setup the toolchanger > as it was from the factory and be able to run it both directions etc... > Other than that his machine seems brilliant and he is saying that he is > getting some very good accuracy and reliability from it altho it has not > been running very long. Here is a link to his nicely powdercoated and > finished machine running, hell he even was able to institute the use of a > pro-renishaw probe. I sincerely hope to be where he is in the near future. > Peace > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSXR3FsN0EE > > Pete > > > > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:01 PM, dave <dengv...@charter.net> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 12:12 -0500, Pete Matos wrote: >> <snip> >> You might want to browse this: >> >> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl >> >> search for mazak and you will get all sorts of hits. >> >> also: >> >> http://webpages.charter.net/bengvall/emc/emcconversion.html >> >> I have no idea what the spindle drive is like on that machine but if you >> can make it work it will be well matched to the spindle motor. >> >> It sounds like you are headed in the right direction. Good luck and >> please share your problems and your successes. >> >> Dave >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single >> web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, >> SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. >> Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
