[Emc-users] More Intel D510 strangeness?
Got an Asus AT5NM10-I motherboard to play with. Uses same chipset and processor as the Intel board. Latest live 10.04 distro CD doesn't work with it. It never boots, just stops on the first screen. Same CD will boot and install on other machines just fine, so it's not a media problem. Official Ubuntu 10.04 LTS cd boots and loads without a problem. EMC then installs fine. I've dual booted it with Win7, that reports the parallel port as working properly in EPP mode. How do I see what Linux/EMC thinks it is? Steve Blackmore -- -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Two control loop (EMC and Servo Driver)?
Hi, I am trying to test my Mesa boards (5i23 and 7i33) with my servo motors. But there is an unexpected problem that EMC2 can't control servo. When I jog, servo motor tuns with oscillation and when i stop jogging, it continue oscillation some seconds more then stop. My servo motor has resolver with 24000ppr and i am getting differential encoder output from its driver. Also servo driver has own control loop inside, i have tried to disable its control loop but i could only set target loop gain to 1. Also i have tried to change PID values of EMC2. My servo period is recommended (100ns), and PWM/PDM frequency is recommended (10 Hz). Following Error is 0.5, and Minimum Error is 0.01. I don't know why it happens but i guess two control loop is overlapping. Do you have any idea about my this problem? Am i using too slow servo-thread? Did anyone have tried to use Toshiba Servo Driver (VLASX-012P2) with EMC2? Thanks. --- Caner Durmusoglu -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] More Intel D510 strangeness?
Steve, Any chance you can hook up a different CDROM or DVDROM to it? I've had that problem before, not with Ubuntu distros, but with other software. Sometimes weird little things can cause issues with booting to the CDROM drive. When you say first screen are you talking about the one where you've got a choice to either install the OS or go with the live CD? How much memory do you have on board? Mark On 10/29/2010 03:27 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: Got an Asus AT5NM10-I motherboard to play with. Uses same chipset and processor as the Intel board. Latest live 10.04 distro CD doesn't work with it. It never boots, just stops on the first screen. Same CD will boot and install on other machines just fine, so it's not a media problem. Official Ubuntu 10.04 LTS cd boots and loads without a problem. EMC then installs fine. I've dual booted it with Win7, that reports the parallel port as working properly in EPP mode. How do I see what Linux/EMC thinks it is? Steve Blackmore -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Kearney and Trecker Milwaukeematic IIIb progress
It's just so hard to find good help these days... ;-) Mark On 10/28/2010 10:03 PM, Dave wrote: Apparently these new cameras do that.. The camera I had back when I was 20 didn't do that.. Apparently we both need different cameras. Have you also noticed that they use less fabric in clothes these days.. Cheap bastards. ;-) Dave On 10/28/2010 10:23 AM, sam sokolik wrote: Yes - that would be me. I would like to say the camera adds 40lbs. ;) sam On 10/28/2010 9:00 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: Sweet! Izzat you in the red hat? Mark -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Two control loop (EMC and Servo Driver)?
Caner, I had a similar situation with my servo amps and I found out that my system was a cascaded position-velocity loop. I suspect that is what yours is too. That means that my external amp, which closes a velocity loop, is nested inside of EMC2, which closes a position loop. For your Toshiba VLASX-012P2 using Mode 1 Analog Input will make it a velocity amplifier using PI (proportional / integral) and will make EMC2 a position controller using only P with FF1 and FF2. No I or D terms are used in the *.ini file. Your amplifiers have Auto-Tuning right? With EMC2 disconnected, I would suggest first tuning the Toshiba to be as stiff as possible. Then connect your analog input. Use Halscope to view your commanded velocity profile compared to your actual output, and use Calibration to slowly increase only your P while jogging at maximum velocity. Use FF1 and FF2 to make the two profiles match as close as possible. The secret to having no oscillations is to have the bandwidth of the velocity loop be greater than or equal to the bandwidth of the position loop. It sounds like right now you have the opposite. Be safe, and good luck. Jim -Original Message- From: Caner [mailto:cnr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 2:29 AM To: emc-users Subject: [Emc-users] Two control loop (EMC and Servo Driver)? Hi, I am trying to test my Mesa boards (5i23 and 7i33) with my servo motors. But there is an unexpected problem that EMC2 can't control servo. When I jog, servo motor tuns with oscillation and when i stop jogging, it continue oscillation some seconds more then stop. My servo motor has resolver with 24000ppr and i am getting differential encoder output from its driver. Also servo driver has own control loop inside, i have tried to disable its control loop but i could only set target loop gain to 1. Also i have tried to change PID values of EMC2. My servo period is recommended (100ns), and PWM/PDM frequency is recommended (10 Hz). Following Error is 0.5, and Minimum Error is 0.01. I don't know why it happens but i guess two control loop is overlapping. Do you have any idea about my this problem? Am i using too slow servo-thread? Did anyone have tried to use Toshiba Servo Driver (VLASX-012P2) with EMC2? Thanks. --- Caner Durmusoglu -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users This communication is for the use of the intended recipient only. It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, the disclosure, copying, distribution or use hereof is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please advise me by return e-mail or by telephone and then delete it immediately. -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Two control loop (EMC and Servo Driver)?
I had the same exact situation with inner velocity loop. I am sure that it is fixable, but I did not have the time and instead went to a torque loop. Velocity loop, if tuned properly, has better characteristics, so one day I will try to go back to it. i On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:29 AM, James Louis james.lo...@gastechnology.org wrote: Caner, I had a similar situation with my servo amps and I found out that my system was a cascaded position-velocity loop. I suspect that is what yours is too. That means that my external amp, which closes a velocity loop, is nested inside of EMC2, which closes a position loop. For your Toshiba VLASX-012P2 using Mode 1 Analog Input will make it a velocity amplifier using PI (proportional / integral) and will make EMC2 a position controller using only P with FF1 and FF2. No I or D terms are used in the *.ini file. Your amplifiers have Auto-Tuning right? With EMC2 disconnected, I would suggest first tuning the Toshiba to be as stiff as possible. Then connect your analog input. Use Halscope to view your commanded velocity profile compared to your actual output, and use Calibration to slowly increase only your P while jogging at maximum velocity. Use FF1 and FF2 to make the two profiles match as close as possible. The secret to having no oscillations is to have the bandwidth of the velocity loop be greater than or equal to the bandwidth of the position loop. It sounds like right now you have the opposite. Be safe, and good luck. Jim -Original Message- From: Caner [mailto:cnr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 2:29 AM To: emc-users Subject: [Emc-users] Two control loop (EMC and Servo Driver)? Hi, I am trying to test my Mesa boards (5i23 and 7i33) with my servo motors. But there is an unexpected problem that EMC2 can't control servo. When I jog, servo motor tuns with oscillation and when i stop jogging, it continue oscillation some seconds more then stop. My servo motor has resolver with 24000ppr and i am getting differential encoder output from its driver. Also servo driver has own control loop inside, i have tried to disable its control loop but i could only set target loop gain to 1. Also i have tried to change PID values of EMC2. My servo period is recommended (100ns), and PWM/PDM frequency is recommended (10 Hz). Following Error is 0.5, and Minimum Error is 0.01. I don't know why it happens but i guess two control loop is overlapping. Do you have any idea about my this problem? Am i using too slow servo-thread? Did anyone have tried to use Toshiba Servo Driver (VLASX-012P2) with EMC2? Thanks. --- Caner Durmusoglu -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users This communication is for the use of the intended recipient only. It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, the disclosure, copying, distribution or use hereof is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please advise me by return e-mail or by telephone and then delete it immediately. -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] More Intel D510 strangeness?
On 10/29/2010 3:27 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: Got an Asus AT5NM10-I motherboard to play with. Uses same chipset and processor as the Intel board. Latest live 10.04 distro CD doesn't work with it. It never boots, just stops on the first screen. Same CD will boot and install on other machines just fine, so it's not a media problem. Official Ubuntu 10.04 LTS cd boots and loads without a problem. EMC then installs fine. I've dual booted it with Win7, that reports the parallel port as working properly in EPP mode. How do I see what Linux/EMC thinks it is? Steve Blackmore Steve: Listen to the voice of wisdom from Mark. I just booted an ASUS AT5NM10-I board, equipped with a 2GB Crucial memory module, into EMC2 LiveCD mode from a USB memory stick. Prior to booting I had disabled HyperThreading and set the parallel port to EPP mode using the onboard BIOS-setup utility. Once Ubuntu boots, look for parport lines in the output from the command line program dmesg. In my case, dmesg reports: partport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] confirming the port functionality I chosen in the BIOS setup. FYI, I used the latest EMC2 LiveCD file (ubuntu-10.04-linuxcnc1-i386.iso) and booted it from a memory stick configured with PenDriveLinux.com's multiboot usb program. I love this utility. It allows me to boot a number of different .iso files without a lot of hassle. The only drawback is that some distributions create .iso files that boot in an incompatible fashion, but everything in the Ubuntu constellation has worked for me. To coin a phrase, my fingers never left my hands. Regards, Kent -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Christchurch
Is there anyone here in Christchurch New Zealand running EMC2. If not anyone in NZ ? I wouldn't mind a chick chat. I need to get it up and running asap. Cheer Wallace PH 3237449 -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] More Intel D510 strangeness?
On 10/29/2010 09:27 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: Steve: Listen to the voice of wisdom from Mark. I just booted an ASUS AT5NM10-I board, equipped with a 2GB Crucial memory module, into EMC2 LiveCD mode from a USB memory stick. Prior to booting I had disabled HyperThreading and set the parallel port to EPP mode using the onboard BIOS-setup utility. Once Ubuntu boots, look for parport lines in the output from the command line program dmesg. In my case, dmesg reports: partport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] confirming the port functionality I chosen in the BIOS setup. FYI, I used the latest EMC2 LiveCD file (ubuntu-10.04-linuxcnc1-i386.iso) and booted it from a memory stick configured with PenDriveLinux.com's multiboot usb program. I love this utility. It allows me to boot a number of different .iso files without a lot of hassle. The only drawback is that some distributions create .iso files that boot in an incompatible fashion, but everything in the Ubuntu constellation has worked for me. To coin a phrase, my fingers never left my hands. Regards, Kent Kent, In the military, we used to call that PFM... ;-) Mark -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Two control loop (EMC and Servo Driver)?
Thank you Jim, I will try your recommendations as soon as possible and inform you about process. Caner. On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 07:29 -0500, James Louis wrote: Caner, I had a similar situation with my servo amps and I found out that my system was a cascaded position-velocity loop. I suspect that is what yours is too. That means that my external amp, which closes a velocity loop, is nested inside of EMC2, which closes a position loop. For your Toshiba VLASX-012P2 using Mode 1 Analog Input will make it a velocity amplifier using PI (proportional / integral) and will make EMC2 a position controller using only P with FF1 and FF2. No I or D terms are used in the *.ini file. Your amplifiers have Auto-Tuning right? With EMC2 disconnected, I would suggest first tuning the Toshiba to be as stiff as possible. Then connect your analog input. Use Halscope to view your commanded velocity profile compared to your actual output, and use Calibration to slowly increase only your P while jogging at maximum velocity. Use FF1 and FF2 to make the two profiles match as close as possible. The secret to having no oscillations is to have the bandwidth of the velocity loop be greater than or equal to the bandwidth of the position loop. It sounds like right now you have the opposite. Be safe, and good luck. Jim -Original Message- From: Caner [mailto:cnr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 2:29 AM To: emc-users Subject: [Emc-users] Two control loop (EMC and Servo Driver)? Hi, I am trying to test my Mesa boards (5i23 and 7i33) with my servo motors. But there is an unexpected problem that EMC2 can't control servo. When I jog, servo motor tuns with oscillation and when i stop jogging, it continue oscillation some seconds more then stop. My servo motor has resolver with 24000ppr and i am getting differential encoder output from its driver. Also servo driver has own control loop inside, i have tried to disable its control loop but i could only set target loop gain to 1. Also i have tried to change PID values of EMC2. My servo period is recommended (100ns), and PWM/PDM frequency is recommended (10 Hz). Following Error is 0.5, and Minimum Error is 0.01. I don't know why it happens but i guess two control loop is overlapping. Do you have any idea about my this problem? Am i using too slow servo-thread? Did anyone have tried to use Toshiba Servo Driver (VLASX-012P2) with EMC2? Thanks. --- Caner Durmusoglu -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users This communication is for the use of the intended recipient only. It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, the disclosure, copying, distribution or use hereof is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please advise me by return e-mail or by telephone and then delete it immediately. -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] More Intel D510 strangeness?
2010/10/29 Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net: Got an Asus AT5NM10-I motherboard to play with. Uses same chipset and processor as the Intel board. Latest live 10.04 distro CD doesn't work with it. It never boots, just stops on the first screen. Same CD will boot and install on other machines just fine, so it's not a media problem. I had the same problem with clean Lucid Live CD - I booted it from my external DVD drive on my laptop, but did not work with D510 board. It just did not boot. I am no IT guy, so never understood, what was wrong. The solution I was able to come up - created bootable USB drive with clean Lucid and then after that connected to internet and installed EMC2. Viesturs -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] scale/encoder
Gentlemen, I have a manual CMM with scales. The display box is very old and almost functional. I would like to replace it with EMC2. Simple enough except for the scale feedback. The scale feedback is four sine waves at 0, 90, 180 and 270. These are, I think, approx 1 volt magnitude. What can I use to get this into EMC2 in a usable fashion. The original display has an 'amplifier, check, divide' board. I don't know the resolution of the sine wave. I have an sn7404n chip and a couple germanium diodes hooked to a bread board. I don't see anything out of the chip. I was expecting a pulse that would allow me to determine the resolution. At this time I have exceeded my electronics capabilities. Is there a chip or reasonable board I can use to change the sine waves to pulse or quadrature? thanks Stuart -- dos centavos -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
Stuart Apologies if this is stating the obvious, but the existing board almost certainly uses the amplitude of the Sin/Cos to interpolate the basic counts and so get a useful accuracy out of the scale. Heidenhain often have a ruling of 20 micrometres so with quadrature, discarding the analogue information, you only get 5 micron resolution. John Prentice - Original Message - From: Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com To: EMC2-Users-List Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 5:58 PM Subject: [Emc-users] scale/encoder Gentlemen, I have a manual CMM with scales. The display box is very old and almost functional. I would like to replace it with EMC2. Simple enough except for the scale feedback. The scale feedback is four sine waves at 0, 90, 180 and 270. These are, I think, approx 1 volt magnitude. What can I use to get this into EMC2 in a usable fashion. The original display has an 'amplifier, check, divide' board. I don't know the resolution of the sine wave. I have an sn7404n chip and a couple germanium diodes hooked to a bread board. I don't see anything out of the chip. I was expecting a pulse that would allow me to determine the resolution. At this time I have exceeded my electronics capabilities. Is there a chip or reasonable board I can use to change the sine waves to pulse or quadrature? thanks Stuart -- dos centavos -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:58:10AM -0500, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gentlemen, I have a manual CMM with scales. The display box is very old and almost functional. I would like to replace it with EMC2. Simple enough except for the scale feedback. The scale feedback is four sine waves at 0, 90, 180 and 270. These are, I think, approx 1 volt magnitude. What can I use to get this into EMC2 in a usable fashion. The original display has an 'amplifier, check, divide' board. I don't know the resolution of the sine wave. I have an sn7404n chip and a couple germanium diodes hooked to a bread board. I don't see anything out of the chip. I was expecting a pulse that would allow me to determine the resolution. At this time I have exceeded my electronics capabilities. Is there a chip or reasonable board I can use to change the sine waves to pulse or quadrature? thanks Stuart I have a glass scale that gives a weird analog sine wavey signal. I was able to find some conditioned quadrature inside the amplifier box, and I ran that into a mesa card. I think there were only two sines 90 degrees apart though, so the conditioning was probably simple zero crossing detection perhaps with a bit of hysteresis. With your four signals maybe you just have the differential equivalent of mine? I suggest a little more deciphering of the amplifier board and/or poking with the scope. I'll try to help in two weeks if you don't get it by then. Chris -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
On 29 October 2010 17:58, Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a chip or reasonable board I can use to change the sine waves to pulse or quadrature? I suspect that the Pico Resolver converter might work, which I think is based on something like this http://docs-europe.origin.electrocomponents.com/webdocs/0e38/0900766b80e382db.pdf I think Mesa have a resolver converter too (or one on the cards). You can probably do 3 axes with a single Arduino, too, have a look at: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?ResolverToQuadratureConverter -- atp -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote: I have a glass scale that gives a weird analog sine wavey signal. I was able to find some conditioned quadrature inside the amplifier box, and I ran that into a mesa card. I think there were only two sines 90 degrees apart though, so the conditioning was probably simple zero crossing detection perhaps with a bit of hysteresis. With your four signals maybe you just have the differential equivalent of mine? I suggest a little more deciphering of the amplifier board and/or poking with the scope. I'll try to help in two weeks if you don't get it by then. Chris I am attempting to get rid of the amplifier box as it is old. I have already replaced the caps in the power supply and this made it better. When the EMC group was here a couple years ago we got it adjusted and running. I have been chasing the adjustments to keep it from faulting. I adjust it and two day or two weeks later it is unusable because of a fault condition. I am working on this at this time because I know help will be here shortly. I just need to get fully prepared. :) thanks Stuart -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- dos centavos -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
John, For some the obvious is obvious. For me the obvious is not necessarily obvious. :) At this time I was only trying to find the resolution of one of the sine waves to see what I had to work with. thanks Stuart On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:05 PM, John Prentice j...@castlewd.freeserve.co.uk wrote: Stuart Apologies if this is stating the obvious, but the existing board almost certainly uses the amplitude of the Sin/Cos to interpolate the basic counts and so get a useful accuracy out of the scale. Heidenhain often have a ruling of 20 micrometres so with quadrature, discarding the analogue information, you only get 5 micron resolution. John Prentice - Original Message - From: Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com To: EMC2-Users-List Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 5:58 PM Subject: [Emc-users] scale/encoder Gentlemen, I have a manual CMM with scales. The display box is very old and almost functional. I would like to replace it with EMC2. Simple enough except for the scale feedback. The scale feedback is four sine waves at 0, 90, 180 and 270. These are, I think, approx 1 volt magnitude. What can I use to get this into EMC2 in a usable fashion. The original display has an 'amplifier, check, divide' board. I don't know the resolution of the sine wave. I have an sn7404n chip and a couple germanium diodes hooked to a bread board. I don't see anything out of the chip. I was expecting a pulse that would allow me to determine the resolution. At this time I have exceeded my electronics capabilities. Is there a chip or reasonable board I can use to change the sine waves to pulse or quadrature? thanks Stuart -- dos centavos -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- dos centavos -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Andy Pugh a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.ukwrote: On 29 October 2010 17:58, Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a chip or reasonable board I can use to change the sine waves to pulse or quadrature? I suspect that the Pico Resolver converter might work, which I think is based on something like this http://docs-europe.origin.electrocomponents.com/webdocs/0e38/0900766b80e382db.pdf I have some of the Pico resolver converter boards. Jon E. - do you think they will work? I think Mesa have a resolver converter too (or one on the cards). I have a 5i23 - will it do this? You can probably do 3 axes with a single Arduino, too, have a look at: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?ResolverToQuadratureConverter thanks Stuart -- dos centavos -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 06:13:48PM +0100, Andy Pugh wrote: On 29 October 2010 17:58, Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote: ?Is there a chip or reasonable board I can use to change the sine waves to pulse or quadrature? I suspect that the Pico Resolver converter might work I'm pretty sure these scales are optical. If it's the one I remember fiddling with, it's got light bulbs. I suspect the signals are just unconditioned light level detection. I'm not sure I know the right terminology to describe it, but they use a second piece of glass with the same pitch (?) lines in front of the master one. The second glass is at a slight angle so as you watch the light shining through it as you move the head, there is something like a moire pattern (?) that makes large areas of light and dark move perpendicular to the head's motion. It is these lines that are detected optically. For this reason I doubt there is interpolation. I bet the lines are the resolution of the device. I think they were too fine to see by naked eye. I bet very basic signal conditioning (thresholding) will be adequate to read this at full resolution. Chris -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:37:44 -0500 From: Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Andy Pugh a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.ukwrote: On 29 October 2010 17:58, Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a chip or reasonable board I can use to change the sine waves to pulse or quadrature? I suspect that the Pico Resolver converter might work, which I think is based on something like this http://docs-europe.origin.electrocomponents.com/webdocs/0e38/0900766b80e382db.pdf I have some of the Pico resolver converter boards. Jon E. - do you think they will work? I think Mesa have a resolver converter too (or one on the cards). I have a 5i23 - will it do this? The 5I23 can work with the resolver interface card (7I49) but this would need firmware modifications for DC exitation like your scale uses (sine and cosine signals with no carrier) But as Chris says if interpolation is not needed, a simple comparator would do to convert the signals to TTL quadrature. Can you slowly move .010 or so and count the peaks? if the resolution or your display is more than 4X the number of peaks from one signal then interpolation is needed. You can probably do 3 axes with a single Arduino, too, have a look at: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?ResolverToQuadratureConverter thanks Stuart -- dos centavos -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics (\__/) (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your ()_() signature to help him gain world domination. -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 06:13:48PM +0100, Andy Pugh wrote: On 29 October 2010 17:58, Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote: ?Is there a chip or reasonable board I can use to change the sine waves to pulse or quadrature? I suspect that the Pico Resolver converter might work I'm pretty sure these scales are optical. If it's the one I remember fiddling with, it's got light bulbs. I suspect the signals are just unconditioned light level detection. I'm not sure I know the right terminology to describe it, but they use a second piece of glass with the same pitch (?) lines in front of the master one. The second glass is at a slight angle so as you watch the light shining through it as you move the head, there is something like a moire pattern (?) that makes large areas of light and dark move perpendicular to the head's motion. It is these lines that are detected optically. For this reason I doubt there is interpolation. I bet the lines are the resolution of the device. I think they were too fine to see by naked eye. I bet very basic signal conditioning (thresholding) will be adequate to read this at full resolution. Yes the scales are optical as you describe. I changed the bulbs and set the gap and angle for the greatest signal strength. I have no idea of the basic resolution. That is what I am trying to find out at this time. Chris -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- dos centavos -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
On 29 October 2010 19:32, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: The 5I23 can work with the resolver interface card (7I49) but this would need firmware modifications for DC exitation like your scale uses (sine and cosine signals with no carrier) At that point you could strip down my Arduino code to remove the PWM generation, take off the no-longer required filter/amplifier and simply keep the analogue sampling and arctan calculation. Then it would simply measure 6 voltages (sin and cos for three channels), calculate angle and output the results as quadrature pulses. You could re-jig for 16-bit A to D too (I have it at 10 bits for speed). Even if Chris is right that there is no interpolation, at $20 an Arduino is a very simple way to measure 6 analogue voltages, threshold them, and pass it to digital. -- atp -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 02:54:19PM -0500, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Yes the scales are optical as you describe. I changed the bulbs and set the gap and angle for the greatest signal strength. I have no idea of the basic resolution. That is what I am trying to find out at this time. Have you tried to count the fringes going by as you give it a little shove while an indicator is against it? Seems pretty possible. Maybe a .001 move (tenths indicator)? I bet you'll come up with 2500/inch or 6350/inch or some other nice round number. -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 02:54:19PM -0500, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Yes the scales are optical as you describe. I changed the bulbs and set the gap and angle for the greatest signal strength. I have no idea of the basic resolution. That is what I am trying to find out at this time. Have you tried to count the fringes going by as you give it a little shove while an indicator is against it? Seems pretty possible. Maybe a .001 move (tenths indicator)? I will check this before I go the Arduino route. I may be back there later today to check this. thanks Stuart I bet you'll come up with 2500/inch or 6350/inch or some other nice round number. -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- dos centavos -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Andy Pugh a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.ukwrote: On 29 October 2010 19:32, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: The 5I23 can work with the resolver interface card (7I49) but this would need firmware modifications for DC exitation like your scale uses (sine and cosine signals with no carrier) At that point you could strip down my Arduino code to remove the PWM generation, take off the no-longer required filter/amplifier and simply keep the analogue sampling and arctan calculation. Then it would simply measure 6 voltages (sin and cos for three channels), calculate angle and output the results as quadrature pulses. You could re-jig for 16-bit A to D too (I have it at 10 bits for speed). Even if Chris is right that there is no interpolation, at $20 an Arduino is a very simple way to measure 6 analogue voltages, threshold them, and pass it to digital. -- atp This sounds good - I will try it thanks Stuart -- dos centavos -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
Andy Pugh wrote: Even if Chris is right that there is no interpolation, at $20 an Arduino is a very simple way to measure 6 analogue voltages, threshold them, and pass it to digital. For those of us who grew up in the middle of the last century, this is the most amazing fact about today's microcontrollers. They are nearly always the most cost-effective solution to the problem at hand, even when the application seems too trivial to waste one on it. No matter your favorite microcontroller family, everyone should have a drawerful of different capability chips on hand. Now that I'm over the hill, I think about the number of times in my life I implemented yet another purpose-built, multi-package, hybrid, analog-digital solution where a single microcontroller would do. I also think about how many more things I could have achieved had I not had to spend so much time getting each hybrid solution right. Sigh. My vacuum tube-era engineer-dad once said to me, you whippersnappers will never know how good you have it. I wonder what the technology will be like when you find yourselves saying it to those who follow you. Regards, Kent -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 13:22 -0500, Chris Radek wrote: ... snip I'm not sure I know the right terminology to describe it, but they use a second piece of glass with the same pitch (?) lines in front of the master one. The second glass is at a slight angle so as you watch the light shining through it as you move the head, there is something like a moire pattern (?) that makes large areas of light and dark move perpendicular to the head's motion. It is these lines that are detected optically. For this reason I doubt there is interpolation. I bet the lines are the resolution of the device. I think they were too fine to see by naked eye. I bet very basic signal conditioning (thresholding) will be adequate to read this at full resolution. Chris ... snip Another possibility might be a vernier sensor. Over the span of four in-line sensors, there is a mask with a pitch of the scale pitch -1. This would present a dark region that would travel across the four sensor area. Each sensor would have a peak every scale line to line span/4 of movement. Another thought is that the designers might have tried to allow for variable bulb brightness, so two sets of two sensors are set up to have their peak and valley at the same location so the difference could be used as the signal threshold. How many bulbs are there? -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] OT update on fanless, untra-reliable PC
A few weeks ago I asked buying a fanless, no moving parts, low power consumption server. I wanted to buy something that I can use to hold critical data (CVS etc), be a nameserver, and be used for port forwarding. I was looking at various Atom based options. After much asking, thinking and reading I settled down on this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101096 Shuttle Intel Atom/D510 based slim, fanless PC. For the hard drive, I bought this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167025 Intel 40 GB SSD. I set it up with Ubuntu 10.04. The only problem was that Ubuntu did not see its network interface and reported no network cards found. I finally learned that the driver is called jme, so after modprobling it, the box has a network connection. It does not see much of a load, as intended. It stays cool at 64 degrees C CPU, with maximum temp reported as 104C. It is fed with power through a laptop style power brick. Top sees four CPUs, but in reality the CPU has two hyperthreaded cores. According to my own benchmark test (perl script that I wrote for benchmarking single or multicore machines), it is very slow, 5 times slower than my desktop, and two times slower than my 5.5 year old, semi-retired webserver. That does not bother me a bit, as speed was never a requirement. I will try to find a couple of extra laptop style power supplies that fit it, and hope that this server will last me many years. This machine has no terminal, keyboard or mouse attached. i -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] AVR Gadget, was: scale/encoder
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 17:43 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: ... snip For those of us who grew up in the middle of the last century, this is the most amazing fact about today's microcontrollers. ... I also think about how many more things I could have achieved had I not had to spend so much time getting each hybrid solution right. Sigh. I have just restarted learning about C programming AVR's (ATtiny2313). I've gotten an LED to flash with a button push, and to vary the LED light with a ramped PWM, so I'm getting a better idea of what I might be able to accomplish. Atmel's website has a wide range of application notes that cover LCD displays, PWM, encoders and such. I'm thinking that it would nice to have a stand-alone gadget as a source to test PWM input devices (Pico AMPs). A frequency could be selected, and the duty cycle varied with a knob (quadrature encoder), with the values being displayed on an LCD. My problem is that the gadget would only save me booting a PC, and it would be a fair amount of work to build the gadget. I'm trying to figure out if it would be worth it. Anybody have other ideas for an AVR project that might be worth doing? I tend to think a PLC or Tool changer controller is better done with EMC2. An e-stop or watchdog controller might be worthy. EPP to Modbus converter? EPP to fast step or PWM generator? -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] AVR Gadget, was: scale/encoder
Kirk Wallace wrote: On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 17:43 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: ... snip For those of us who grew up in the middle of the last century, this is the most amazing fact about today's microcontrollers. ... I also think about how many more things I could have achieved had I not had to spend so much time getting each hybrid solution right. Sigh. I have just restarted learning about C programming AVR's (ATtiny2313). I've gotten an LED to flash with a button push, and to vary the LED light with a ramped PWM, so I'm getting a better idea of what I might be able to accomplish. Atmel's website has a wide range of application notes that cover LCD displays, PWM, encoders and such. I'm thinking that it would nice to have a stand-alone gadget as a source to test PWM input devices (Pico AMPs). A frequency could be selected, and the duty cycle varied with a knob (quadrature encoder), with the values being displayed on an LCD. My problem is that the gadget would only save me booting a PC, and it would be a fair amount of work to build the gadget. I'm trying to figure out if it would be worth it. Or you could buy one :) http://www.cncgear.com/MPG/ Anybody have other ideas for an AVR project that might be worth doing? I tend to think a PLC or Tool changer controller is better done with EMC2. An e-stop or watchdog controller might be worthy. EPP to Modbus converter? EPP to fast step or PWM generator? Now an AVR based doohickey that can have internal HAL-like signal connections between its peripherals - that would be something :) - Steve -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
On Friday, October 29, 2010 08:26:57 pm Kent A. Reed did opine: Andy Pugh wrote: Even if Chris is right that there is no interpolation, at $20 an Arduino is a very simple way to measure 6 analogue voltages, threshold them, and pass it to digital. For those of us who grew up in the middle of the last century, this is the most amazing fact about today's microcontrollers. They are nearly always the most cost-effective solution to the problem at hand, even when the application seems too trivial to waste one on it. No matter your favorite microcontroller family, everyone should have a drawerful of different capability chips on hand. Now that I'm over the hill, I think about the number of times in my life I implemented yet another purpose-built, multi-package, hybrid, analog-digital solution where a single microcontroller would do. I also think about how many more things I could have achieved had I not had to spend so much time getting each hybrid solution right. Sigh. My vacuum tube-era engineer-dad once said to me, you whippersnappers will never know how good you have it. I wonder what the technology will be like when you find yourselves saying it to those who follow you. Regards, Kent I would liked to have met your dad, Kent. He sounds like an old warhorse I'd like to trade battle stories with. For some things, it wasn't till we shut down the analog transmitter 18 months ago that the last vacuum tube was allowed to cool down for good. I saved a dud, non-rebuildable final tube from our old GE transmitter just so I could show it off to the younger set who will today, cheerfully use 8192 transistors in parallel to do what this tube did when it was fresh. A water cooled anode that required deionized water in the coolant system because the tubes anode had 7200 volts on it. This tube was rated to make 85 kilowatts (sync tip peak) of power in the low vhf band, but our transmitter let it relax with its feet up on the coffee table because we only needed 26.7 sync tip peak to make our power. Most 'engineers' don't know how to baby those big tubes use one up every 6 months at $7000 a rebuild. In the time since I became the CE at WDTV in 1984, I only used 3 of them. That was a significant reduction in the stations C.O.D.B. -- 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) This PORCUPINE knows his ZIPCODE ... And he has VISA!! -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
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Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
Chris Radek wrote: With your four signals maybe you just have the differential equivalent of mine? Yes, and one of the advantages of that is it gives a clear indication if the light bulb fails. All 4 signals go the same way and you lose the differential nature of the signals. (I will bet it DOES have an actual bulb, or was made just after the first LEDs came out, they used this in Allen-Bradley and other CNC controls as a fail-safe scheme.) Jon -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
Andy Pugh wrote: On 29 October 2010 17:58, Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a chip or reasonable board I can use to change the sine waves to pulse or quadrature? I suspect that the Pico Resolver converter might work, which I think is based on something like this http://docs-europe.origin.electrocomponents.com/webdocs/0e38/0900766b80e382db.pdf No, unfortunately, these boards drive a rotary transformer-type device with an AC signal, and detect the resulting AC output, both amplitude and phase. It won't work with the photocell output of a glass scale. Jon -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] scale/encoder
Gene Heskett wrote: A water cooled anode that required deionized water in the coolant system because the tubes anode had 7200 volts on it. This tube was rated to make 85 kilowatts (sync tip peak) of power in the low vhf band, but our transmitter let it relax with its feet up on the coffee table because we only needed 26.7 sync tip peak to make our power. Up at Michigan State University's National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab they have two cyclotrons. Each has 3 transmitting tubes, as they have 6 Dees, 3 grounded and 3 live, with 120 degree phase relationship. Kind of like 3 phase mains power only at 14 MHz or something. The main DC supply is 18 KV at 42 amps. That is 756 KW of DC power! I know the smaller cyclotron has smaller transmitting tubes in it, but that averages out to 126 KW per tube! They really aren't very big, either. (Just to be clear, the 42 A is not the rating, it is the ACTUAL load as read off the meters.) Almost all of this power is turned into RF heating of the inside of the cyclotrons. Jon -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] SGI Legacy.
Hi Kent; I have wondered how SGI faired over the years. A look at Wiki and WOW. It looked like some awesome graphics near the end, especially their larger systems. I was using their IRIS 1000 - 3000 and the IRIS 4D (Baby steps). But they were great by comparison to what was available otherwise. In the end did it appear they were too big or too programed to step into the inexpensive Video Production and PC Gaming markets? Thanks Don -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Power outage EMC2 [Was: Re: fanless, untra-reliable PC]
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 05:21:04PM -0500, Igor Chudov wrote: I will try to find a couple of extra laptop style power supplies that fit it, and hope that this server will last me many years. If it should also be reliably up, or at least be able to be brought down gracefully in the event of power failure, a cheap UPS can be built in to the host, if a PicoPSU is used, as suggested upthread. Having bought a PicoPSU with each of two mini-ATX boards, I've interposed a spare 12v SLA battery on one, and cobbled up a 13.8v power supply to keep it charged. (So that UPS involved no expenditure.) A UPS seems useful on a EMC2 host? We have occasional fleeting power interruptions here. I'm not keen on power flicking off three times in five seconds, then staying on, in the middle of a job. It has to be better for EMC2 to remain conscious, even if it is best to trigger an estop. The encoders can be powered by the UPS, so we don't lose position. (With summer looming, I'm nervous about power interruptions. Last summer I was once the only hardware-store customer in a checkout queue of four, _not_ walking out with an airconditioner on a trolley.) Erik -- Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
