On Friday 07 March 2014 06:25:36 Bill did opine: > Hi Gene > > Well I sat down this afternoon and worked on the configuration from > scratch and it seemed to go OK . I can't try it yet because I am still > waiting for the Breakout boards, they are on a slow boat from China. I > still have to work out how to change the hal to make the stepconf type > 5 as my steppers and driver don't suit step/dir. > > I am actually building it because I am experimenting with Magnetic > Motors and Wind Generators. The shaft and rotors on the magentic can > spin very fast so the rotors have to be very accurate. More accurate > than I can make with a circle cutter and spade bits. > > I am considering counter balancing the z axis as this is the heaviest > load on the motors, the motors will be running on 19 volts so that > should give them some oomph. > > My wife just came home from the church Kid's Club she's helping with a > the moment. We've had our tea of a meat and a chicken hot5 pie. > Delicious!! > > I've just taken a guess with the motor sizes but if they are too slow > I'll just have to upgrade, but slow speed is not a great problem it can > take all day if it needs to. I'm looking at the linuxcnc documentation > on fixing SMI issues at the moment to see if I can get away from the > potholes with the computer. I'm getting about 30,000ns max Jitter at > the moment. This is a dedicated computer, it isn't even connected to > the Internet (Linux Livid won t recognise the USB Dongle). > > This was meant to be an economy project but a few cooked Arduino boards > has blown the budget. > > These are the links to the breakout board and the Stepper motors (For > which I gave the wrong size) > http://www.tecnoflexo.com.br/site/fotos/download/17/17.pdf
Which looks like a capable interface/breakout. > http://www.robosoftsystems.co > in/roboshop/media/catalog/product/pdf/Minebea%2014PM-M201%20Unipolar%20M > otor pdf This one does not resolve even when stripped to the basic site name. IOW, unreachable from here. > > It's great to have our advice, I've been googling everywhere and never > found how to contact people like this. > > Thankyou for your advice. > > Regards Bill > > ( I'm off to watch the football, the local team the Brisbane Broncos are > playing the North Queensland Cowboys for the first game of the year) B > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ 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.c > lktrk _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > 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) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> NOTICE: Will pay 100 USD for an HP-4815A defective but complete probe assembly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
