On Monday 18 February 2019 17:07:14 John Dammeyer wrote: > Let's try this then. > > Then there is the Far East solutions like the one in this link. > <https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Low-cost-New-Product-3Axis-4Ax >is_603 43603384.html?spm=a2700.7724857.normalList.37.3701292eTmjk5p> > > John Dammeyer > > Somewhere in the path is a line-wrapper thats ignoreing the <> convention. Normally the <> around a link protects it from such destruction. IOW it still isn't working.
The reason I'm curious is that I'm in the middle of making a 6040 work with LinuxCNC. And its being difficult regarding the vfd. Mach only turns it on and off, apparently from wide open.. That wasn't the first problem though, it had only a 24 volt motor psu, which when the 4th axis was plugged in, folded back to about 14 volts. So its now being moved by the 28 volt rig I took off the broken HF mill. So I'm in the process of building a 2nd interface similar to the one I put on the g0704, which has a 5i25, driving a 7i76 so I now have enough I/O to actually run the g0704. And before I can run the spindle on the 6040, I need the spindle hardware in the 7i76. Chicken v egg. I did manage to get a usable back panel for all the I/0 connectors carved for the g0704 version, but even with the spindle down below 5 grand, I had to stop and clean the melted alu out of the tool 4 times. And burnt my fingers on the panel despite its swimming in cutting oil. Smoking cutting oil. So I've got misting coolant stuff on order before I try to run another duplicate panel for the 6040 but with bigger connectors. Rounding up enough other stuff to put coolant/mist under control, home switches & some other "gingerbread-ish" stuff on it. I'd like to figure out how to make an encoder work, but at 24k revs wide open, that will take a relatively course encoder. Or a d/a put to work in the 7i76 if I can figure out where to hijack the rpms it displays on the vfd panel and pipe it back to LCNC. That might take some rs485 monkey business. The book mentions it, but the rj45 socket pattern on its pcb is empty. The software book on this vfd, a 120 volt model, in Chinese, translated well in google translate, up to about the 40th page, but there's nearly 70 pages, and it was just getting good when google decided that's all you get for free. :( FWIW, I tend to agree with 99% of your rant. Seems like we should have a stretch based x86 installer by now. Take care, John. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "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> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
