just checked out that carousel component that you wrote andy. It looks very usefull and I will probably use it for my slant bed cnc lathe that I am going to retrofit next. At this stage I would still like to use classic ladder for my toolchanger as I have most of it sussed now and I think it is the simplest for me to work out how all the interlocking is going to work. I don't quite understand if the carousel component can interlock the motors so I don't turn both fwd and rev contactors on at the same time for example. I have been told that the contactors make a quite nice BOOM when that happens lol. I suppose that I can probably use a combination of hal components and classic ladder for a toolchanger as they all can be linked together its really up to the imagination/
anyway if you could get back and just confirm how the toolchange iocontrol stuff works that would be great. As always thanks so much for all the time you spend helping people out with linuxcnc/ regards Andrew On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:49 PM andrew beck <[email protected]> wrote: > oops sorry Andy! > > I made that big email replying to you guys and referencing the wiki page > but didn't link it lol. > > here it is.. > > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ToolChange > > regards > > Andrew > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:47 PM andrew beck <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I saw the Hal component that you wrote Andy. My toolchanger doesn't >> require Z axis movements to work the toolchanger which is why I thought I >> would use classic ladder.. But I'm fine with whatever works.. I'm >> starting to like classic ladder now and it's easy to interlock all my >> motors and sensors so that for example the magazine can't move unless the >> pocket tool pot is in the up position. That's easy in ladder logic. But >> anything that works is fine. I just need to understand it. >> >> Regards >> >> Andrew >> >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 10:26 PM andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 05:10, andrew beck <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > To actually get this to work, my classic ladder would have a counter >>> set up >>> > triggering as each pocket goes past the sensor. >>> >>> I will get back to your main points later, but there is a HAL >>> component that can do much of the work here: >>> http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man9/carousel.9.html >>> >>> -- >>> atp >>> "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is >>> designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and >>> lunatics." >>> — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Emc-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >>> >> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
