On Saturday 12 October 2019 00:12:11 andrew beck wrote: > That's a pretty good record! > I've been useing it since the BDI version, which was hell to setup for a newbie. And I've had to reboot 2 or 3 times because of poor hardware, and because I like to be on the bleeding edge, have had maybe 3 instances of that bleeding edge miss-behave that would not have happened if I wasn't running code straight from master. In effect I am playing the part of the canary in the coal mine. An outright crash? Hasn't happened. Lost one machine from a lightning strike on the transformer pole across the street. I think thats a heck of a good record, zero problems since I updated the service from 60 to 200 amps AND brought it up to code in 2005. I found several places where ID10T so called electricians had grandfathered in some poor grounding because this place was built before there was an NEC. In that not quite 20 years, I have found and reported 3 or 4 problems that were fixed in hours. These guys who write this code are GOOD. You don't converse with the authors of ANY other proprietary code, without buying, on a per seat basis, the updated code that *might* fix your problem.
Finally, I spent a couple months last winter trying to work with the Mach that came with a new machine I bought around this last Christmas and found it incapable of doing what I expected, not even capable of telling the spindle to do anything more than start-stop, couldn't reverse it or vary its speed, giving up on it and the shoddy electrics supplied, and replaced everything between the computer and the motors with quality stuff from these vendors that live on this list, pico or mesa, or ebay and installed linuxcnc. Now it does everything I've tried, at 2 or 3x the speeds that Mach and its off the sidewalk in Honshu electrics could muster, and I suspect, far more accurately. The biggest problem I still have is because its epoxy paint and ceramic spindle motor bearings prevents a truly grounded spindle, the last major mod will be to install a brush that touches and grounds the tool, and extend that back to a real system ground. Until then I make do with alligator clips I have to install when I want to do a tool length compensating measurement within the gcode I write. I don't have a cad/cam, my brain does that. I'm fond of loops, and have written 90 line programs that take 3 days to run. But the end result was the sharpest, longest lasting blade I've ever had on my table saw. Lasted 4x longer than any $60 blade I've bought. Cutting white ash, oak, maple, cherry or walnut for furniture whose Green and Green joints I also cut with the g-code I wrote. I'd hang it up and go fishing if it wasn't for LinuxCNC. Here in WV, thats generally a waste of time. I spent a decade (the 60's) in RCSD, and the fishing and hunting there kept us from starving. > On Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 3:24 PM Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > > On 10/11/2019 02:56 PM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > > > Thanks Jon, > > > > > > >From the sound of if, the powers that be are not going to let me > > > > convert this machine to Linuxcnc. They want to buy a new Wincnc PC. > > (The machine operators and myself would rather switch it over.) Oh > > well. > > > > > > Well, you can tell them that I've been using > > EMC/EMC2/LinuxCNC since 1998, and it has not crashed EVER in > > that whole time. If that doesn't convince them, then I > > guess that is what will happen. > > > > Jon > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis 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
