Re: [Emc-users] Upgrade to ATC

2013-06-12 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/6/12 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 11 June 2013 21:10, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: (I am also wondering if a version of kwik-switch (which has the advantage of being bottom-actuated) could be made where… Is there any chance to see some kind of picture with this

[Emc-users] What is the Wichita meeting?

2013-06-12 Thread Sven Wesley
...and why isn't it promoted at http://linuxcnc.org? Regards, Sven -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev

Re: [Emc-users] What is the Wichita meeting?

2013-06-12 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/6/12 Matt Shaver m...@mattshaver.com: On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:17:05 +0200 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: ...and why isn't it promoted at http://linuxcnc.org? Mostly because we're a bunch of knuckleheads. Is this you? https://www.facebook.com/sven.wesley I ask because

Re: [Emc-users] Upgrade to ATC

2013-06-12 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/6/12 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com: I saw a really nice ATC as an add-on that fits the common Chinese VFD spindles. It was very nice looking but expensive. /S Found it! http://store.blurrycustoms.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=46

Re: [Emc-users] Upgrade to ATC

2013-06-12 Thread Sven Wesley
Den 13 jun 2013 05:21 skrev N. Christopher Perry n_christopher_pe...@me.com: Lovely! But, alas, out of my non-professional price range. I built my whole machine for what that cost. N. Christopher Perry I know. Way too expensive. But it's at least an idea that could be developed. There

Re: [Emc-users] Upgrade to ATC

2013-06-12 Thread Sven Wesley
Den 13 jun 2013 01:18 skrev andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 12 June 2013 23:07, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: Found it! http://store.blurrycustoms.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=46 Isn't that a complete replacement spindle? Yes but it is made as a piggy back on a Chinese spindle

Re: [Emc-users] Pendant recommendations

2013-06-11 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/6/10 jrmitchellj . jrmitche...@gmail.com: The jog-it is an open source project, so you can reprogram it any way you like. I agree with you about the home function, and have changed it on my unit. (I was one of hte kickstarter investors). Ray --J. Ray Mitchell Jr.

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC Integrator meeting Germany?

2013-06-10 Thread Sven Wesley
I would love to have a reason for southern Germany. :) /Sven 2013/6/7 Alex Joni alex.j...@robcon.ro: Stuttgart sounds doable for me too. Alex -Original Message- From: Martin Schöneck Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 10:55 PM To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

Re: [Emc-users] Pendant recommendations

2013-06-10 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/6/2 Bruce Layne linux...@thinkingdevices.com: I highly recommend the JogIt! pendant. They sure look really fine, but I still don't like the idea of having the home button being the largest most centric object on the pendant. Homing is made once, zeroing would have been much more logical to

Re: [Emc-users] ABB Robots in Sweden

2013-04-30 Thread Sven Wesley
I've been trying to get an ABB for a long time with no success. If Lars isn't taking it further I might be interested. /Sven 2013/4/29 Lars Andersson l...@larsandersson.com Oh yes, I would be interested in an old ABB robot for a reasonable price. I live within easy travel distace from ABB if

Re: [Emc-users] Machining a mold for a reflector?

2013-04-20 Thread Sven Wesley
but if it _is_ electroforming, then the plated form is even smaller i wish nissin showed an unplated version to see what the armature looked like, or explained how the armature/mandrel was made. also, i cant see how nissin expects a thin plated object to be used in an injection mold, it seem

Re: [Emc-users] KUKA!!

2013-04-17 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/4/16 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com Also slightly strange to see manual assembly and spray-painting of the robots. Exactly! Factories uses robots for painting, but not Kuka! Weird, they don't even have to buy the robots... LinuxCNC in the good ol' EMC2 days has been used for several

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC licence

2013-02-24 Thread Sven Wesley
First chapter: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/common/Getting_EMC.html Or in the PDF, chapter 2.1: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/2.5/LinuxCNC_Getting_Started.pdf Also, in the header of or source code files. :) 2013/2/24 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com Hello! Is there any place in

Re: [Emc-users] Endmills for aluminium

2013-02-19 Thread Sven Wesley
Veisturs, You will find a number of decent traders at both German and UK eBay. I buy many tools in Germany, always fast delivery and much better prices than the local dealers. Regards, Sven -- Everyone hates slow

Re: [Emc-users] OT - liquid pump for really cold temperature

2013-01-20 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/1/20 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com Thank You, guys, for the answers! 2013/1/20 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com: All my cars have, and all my former cars had, electrical heaters. You don't need a pump. There are universal models that sits in the cooler hose that works

Re: [Emc-users] OT - liquid pump for really cold temperature

2013-01-20 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/1/20 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com Nearly any modern car will have provision somewhere on the engine for a block heater. It is also likely to be in the right place too. Have you looked for a manufacturer-original part? Nearly every engine ever built sinces the 60's, I would say. Even my

Re: [Emc-users] OT - liquid pump for really cold temperature

2013-01-19 Thread Sven Wesley
All my cars have, and all my former cars had, electrical heaters. You don't need a pump. There are universal models that sits in the cooler hose that works flawlessly. There's a silicone/rubber plate model nowadays that you glue directly onto the oil pan that works pretty well too. Some guys use

Re: [Emc-users] EMC-Tetris

2013-01-12 Thread Sven Wesley
wrote: On 2013-01-08 14:47, Sven Wesley wrote: http://youtu.be/MOW5Tooi6ds :) -- Master SQL Server Development, Administration, T-SQL, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS and more. Get SQL Server skills now (including

Re: [Emc-users] EMC-Tetris

2013-01-10 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/1/10 Stephen Dubovsky smdubov...@gmail.com LOLZ! I watched this yesterday at work w/ the sound off and thought BRING, yeah you've got your router moving around slowly, big deal, whats the point... But that is FANTASTIC w/ the sound on! Good work. Stephen Hell no! It's not

[Emc-users] EMC-Tetris

2013-01-08 Thread Sven Wesley
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Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC craziness

2013-01-08 Thread Sven Wesley
Viesturs, haven't read all answers but here goes... I've experienced really bad noise in unshielded cables not even a third of the length of yours. I've seen machines moving far by themselves when the workshop flourescent lights were turned on. Really scary. Shielded cables are good stuff and they

Re: [Emc-users] What current ITX board?

2012-12-12 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/12/12 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com I will say it. If its a 64 bit install, then it is not the rtai patched kernel, and the results predictably will be poorer. Read my post again. There are two different PC's involved in my tests. One is now installed with 64 bit Ubuntu - not

Re: [Emc-users] What current ITX board?

2012-12-11 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/12/4 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com 2012/12/3 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com Sven, 2 things you MUST do. 1. Turn off the hyper-threading in the bios. 2. Add isolcpus=1 to the end of the grub kernel line. Oh yes I did that already. Latest BIOS firmware and running fastest

Re: [Emc-users] What current ITX board?

2012-12-04 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/12/3 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com Sven, 2 things you MUST do. 1. Turn off the hyper-threading in the bios. 2. Add isolcpus=1 to the end of the grub kernel line. Oh yes I did that already. Latest BIOS firmware and running fastest rated SSD disc too. CNCLinux no tweaks installation.

Re: [Emc-users] What current ITX board?

2012-12-03 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/12/3 Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com D525MW I assume that you guys using the D525MW board also is using a Mesa board. I have two D525MW's and if you ask me their performance is really poor. I don't have to push it at all to reach latency values way above 50 000 ns. With a Mesa board yes, without

Re: [Emc-users] 4kw China Spindle

2012-12-03 Thread Sven Wesley
Not the same seller, but the spindles all look the same. Mine has been cutting in hard molding Alu with no problem. (Never mind the sound, it's terrible to record with a phone...)

Re: [Emc-users] Build simulator on Precise

2012-11-27 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/11/27 Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com I just installed on 12.04 last week. I followed this page. It worked great when I read the last line. :) http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Build_A_Simulator_Manually Veisturs, it looks like you are using the wrong configure flag, it

Re: [Emc-users] Wireless pendant

2012-11-19 Thread Sven Wesley
Hmm.., I digged a bit deeper in the text and vid's. It's a shame the button text is moulded with the buttons. To me homing should be made once at startup. It seems he's using homing when it should be a touch off. I'll ask him about it. Did he reply? I went ahead and ordered one

Re: [Emc-users] Wireless pendant

2012-11-17 Thread Sven Wesley
Look what I found outside my office the other day. The second guy has the radio control. http://www.flickr.com/photos/svenneduva/8188102690/in/photostream/lightbox/ 2012/11/10 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com On Friday 09 November 2012 18:45:02 Sven Wesley did opine: 2012/11/9 Jason Burton

Re: [Emc-users] Wireless pendant

2012-11-17 Thread Sven Wesley
And the guy closest to the pile is, what, the hearing-protection tester? :-) Regards, Kent He's at least the guy doing the shitty work. ;) Wasn't that noisy at the time though. But he's probably deaf already so i think ear plugs doesn't matter. :D

[Emc-users] Wireless pendant

2012-11-09 Thread Sven Wesley
Guys, I need a better pendant and there was a discussion about those fancy Chinese pendants a while ago but I can't find any successful end result. Did anyone make a pendant like similar: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Business-Office-Industrial-/12576/i.html?_from=R40_nkw=wireless+pendant or the El

Re: [Emc-users] Wireless pendant

2012-11-09 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/11/9 Jason Burton lathebuil...@gmail.com Not wireless, but check out Jog It! on kickstarter. A little over a week left. Looks like a good idea. The eBay versions seems more rugged though. It actually started when I discussed with my vendor about my recent discussion (about performance)

Re: [Emc-users] Wireless pendant

2012-11-09 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/11/9 Bruce Layne linux...@thinkingdevices.com On 11/09/2012 02:59 PM, Sven Wesley wrote: Looks like a good idea. The eBay versions seems more rugged though. I had the opposite impression. I thought the Jog It looked a bit home made, but very rugged. In one of the videos, when

Re: [Emc-users] Wireless pendant

2012-11-09 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/11/9 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com 2012/11/9 Bruce Layne linux...@thinkingdevices.com On 11/09/2012 02:59 PM, Sven Wesley wrote: Looks like a good idea. The eBay versions seems more rugged though. I had the opposite impression. I thought the Jog It looked a bit home made

Re: [Emc-users] Wireless pendant

2012-11-09 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/11/9 Jason Burton lathebuil...@gmail.com As someone who designs automation cells and tooling for robots and machine tools easily big enough to kill you, wireless pendants would freak me out for safety reasons. I spec wireless sensors for tooling pretty regularly. That said, I only

Re: [Emc-users] Wireless pendant

2012-11-09 Thread Sven Wesley
That's cool. I bet their wireless protocols are rigorously tested. Do they allow payload dropping for overhead loads via wireless? I'm not sure I understand the question, but if you mean lifting goods over objects or people that's happening all the time. First wireless controlled truck

Re: [Emc-users] Wireless pendant

2012-11-09 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/11/10 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com That's cool. I bet their wireless protocols are rigorously tested. Do they allow payload dropping for overhead loads via wireless? I'm not sure I understand the question, but if you mean lifting goods over objects or people that's happening all

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-06 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/11/6 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com If 50% improvement is all that you need, then this might be worthwhile. My scepticism is based on a more subtle consideration which applies to stepper systems, however I think yours is a step-servo system so this might not apply. A 50 % drop in

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/11/5 Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@gmail.com On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Ralph Stirling ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu wrote: The problem I seemed to be observing (and seemed to be reported by others) was that the SD card gets corrupted even with RO file systems. Power

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/11/5 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com 2012/11/5 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 5 November 2012 19:10, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: @Andy, why is it difficult and why is it the wrong problem? I clearly measure a performance boost running the controller PC

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-04 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/10/29 John Stewart alex.stew...@crc.ca Hi all; On 2012-10-29, at 11:14 AM, Sven Wesley wrote: I think I'll order that Mini ITX board at the same time. For the record, I ordered two ITX boards. Better safe than sorry. ;) I just got my 2nd Intel D525MW board last Friday; it took

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-04 Thread Sven Wesley
I installed LinuxCNC on my board and ran latency tests and it was quite easy to ramp it up to 14 250 ns. That's worse than my existing configuration at the reconfigured PC that's in use now that this thread from the beginning was about. I also made the remote X tests as discussed earlier in

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-04 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/11/4 John Stewart alex.stew...@crc.ca Sven; My D525MW boards are not beside me ATM, but your correction seems to be about right, IIRC. Certainly not blindingly fast, but not too bad either, and little noise/heat. I hope that their lifetime is long in my applications. My numbers,

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-04 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/11/4 Ray Mitchell jrmitche...@gmail.com Did you verify that the D525MW has the latest Intel BIOS installed? Ray No difference before or after BIOS upgrade. Now running rev.0126 i.e. latest from Intel. 26 000 ns easily within 30 seconds caused by a terminal, glxgears and Firefox. /S

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-04 Thread Sven Wesley
Indeed, but that is what pressures us to find a better solution. A static world is unnatural. Thermodynamics wins every time. Dave Define static. Mount Everest hasn't changed much since EMC2 was born. A better solution seems to be two machines; one for LinuxCNC and one for X. /S

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-29 Thread Sven Wesley
Unfortunately the graphics card didn't like me playing around with the drivers and it got really hot. I replaced it with a dirt cheap card just to get the PC back up again. Did a remote X session test five minutes ago. ssh -X connection from my CAM workstation, played Youtube videos,

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-29 Thread Sven Wesley
I think I'll order that Mini ITX board at the same time. For the record, I ordered two ITX boards. Better safe than sorry. ;) -- The Windows 8 Center - In partnership with Sourceforge Your idea - your app - 30 days.

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-29 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/10/29 John Stewart alex.stew...@crc.ca Hi all; On 2012-10-29, at 11:14 AM, Sven Wesley wrote: I think I'll order that Mini ITX board at the same time. For the record, I ordered two ITX boards. Better safe than sorry. ;) I just got my 2nd Intel D525MW board last Friday; it took

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-28 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/10/25 Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com ...[snip]... With this in mind (and you did mentioned graphics first), have you tried my favorite trick and run your LinuxCNC host in headless mode, using another computer to provide X services? A quick test would confirm if you are being

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-26 Thread Sven Wesley
I did some testing yesterday. I upgraded the graphics driver (Nvidia) and the latency test went from 18 000 to 150 000... I removed the driver and reconfigured X and came down to a sweet 7 000, but there's something messing things up as the latency all of a sudden popped up to 15 800. Running the

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-26 Thread Sven Wesley
Thanks for the flowers Sven. As for still here, I had a birthday a few days back, and can now truthfully say that I've been 39 and holding, for 39 years, so the shotgun that runs me off will probably resemble Father Time's Scythe. That said, the praise we've been giving the Intel D525MW

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-26 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/10/26 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 11:36 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: ... snip People keep downplaying the impact of the graphics subsystem but in my experience it still ranks ahead of other problems when latency kicks up. We remain blissfully ignorant

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-25 Thread Sven Wesley
Nevertheless, Sven, it would helpful to know details about your computer---motherboard, bios version, cpu, ram, etc. Like Michael said, I do not see yet how an OS version change should make much difference here. Yes, we want to help you get back your performance, but we also want to be

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-25 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/10/25 Lars Kruse li...@sumpfralle.de Hi, @Lars, in my first post [..] to avoid any confusion for other readers: I sent a private mail to Sven yesterday explaining that FMPOV he needs to be more specific about the meaning of speed and how he measured its decline. cheers, Lars

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-25 Thread Sven Wesley
True, I could gather some HW info and post it. I'll do that. Your idea with a headless machine is a great test! Software open-GL might be another interesting test along the same lines. If this is a servo system, though, it would seem unlikely that latency would have any effect on the

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-25 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/10/25 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com On 25 October 2012 11:44, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, this is a servo based step/dir system (my big steel router) and not a closed loop á la Mesa style servo system. If you are limited by software step generation then I

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-24 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/10/23 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com On 23 October 2012 09:48, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: I really not want to step back to Ubuntu 8... If it worked better, why not? Because it's old, to begin

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-24 Thread Sven Wesley
the guys wont be able to tell with the level of detail you gave, because the crystal ball is dark today Please post a configuration, describe the hardware, and explain changing which values get you exactly which RTAI errors - since you talk about a servo configuration which has actually

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-24 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/10/24 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com the guys wont be able to tell with the level of detail you gave, because the crystal ball is dark today Please post a configuration, describe the hardware, and explain changing which values get you exactly which RTAI errors - since you talk about

Re: [Emc-users] Knee mill w/ encoder on knee

2012-10-23 Thread Sven Wesley
Sven, How did you fit the knee motor? I'm considering it myself but looking for some more details. I figure I'd have to mount knee limits on both ends of travel, and figure out how to fix the motor. Matt I didn't, both the Abene and the Deckel was factory built. The guys I know that

[Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-23 Thread Sven Wesley
Guys, I know, poor performance is a every-now-and-then-upcoming-debate... I had pretty good performance with my old servo drives and Ubuntu 8. I upgraded to better (more secure) and faster drives and the speed was marvelous. And then I upgraded to Ubuntu 10 and lost 30 % speed. If I push the

Re: [Emc-users] Knee mill w/ encoder on knee

2012-10-16 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/9/14 Stephen Dubovsky smdubov...@gmail.com Dave, The knee typically isn't under CNC control on a knee mill. You move it up/down manually, lock it, re-touch off, and continue a program. Just wondering if its possible to keep track of the Z location w/o causing LCNC from running into the

Re: [Emc-users] Bar code error

2012-09-21 Thread Sven Wesley
Dave, Could you update the forum where this question first was raised? I told you it was a config issue, didn't I? ;) /S 2012/9/19 Dave dhas...@paulbunyan.net I believe that I have figured it out. I was able to set up the scanner with a Intercharacter Delay which places a short (ms) delay

[Emc-users] CNC Grinder

2012-08-12 Thread Sven Wesley
Guys, Though this one is worth cross sharing. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMkNCSUJBvs http://www.cnczone.com/forums/linuxcnc_formerly_emc2/138977-heald_id_grinder_emc2_project.html Regards, Sven -- Live Security

[Emc-users] Really weird noise problem

2012-07-02 Thread Sven Wesley
My big machine was never shut off, It was on for at least ten days and maybe more. I came to the workshop and swtiched the light on (two rows of industrial double fluorescent), I noticed that the machine gave noise when the light went on which has never happened before. I went to the machine which

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.5.0 release date

2012-03-27 Thread Sven Wesley
Great news! is there a changelog already?.. 2012/3/15 Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:59:26 -0500, you wrote: I'm planning to make the release on or around March 31. Hooray :) it's been a lng wait. Steve Blackmore --

[Emc-users] Piccolo

2012-02-18 Thread Sven Wesley
Nice idea. http://piccolo.cc/ /Sven -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a

Re: [Emc-users] Simulator based on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric

2012-02-02 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/2/2 Yishin Li y...@araisrobo.com On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: Gentlemen (I've asked before, here are no women), Anders Wallin got the simulator running within 11.10, and I made it as well by some slight changes to Anders guide. I wrote

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-02-02 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/2/2 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com ... So my conclusion is - machine is not losing encoder counts, there is no significant noise in encoder signal. Could it be anything else, but the encoder problem? ... Did you try my suggestion to ground the encoder, as written in my

[Emc-users] Simulator based on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric

2012-02-01 Thread Sven Wesley
Gentlemen (I've asked before, here are no women), Anders Wallin got the simulator running within 11.10, and I made it as well by some slight changes to Anders guide. I wrote it all down at the wiki: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Build_A_Simulator_Manually And made a demo case here:

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-01-31 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/1/31 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com 2012/1/31 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: The three phase PWM is a fair noise source. Not just capacitively coupled noise from the three motor wires but inductively coupled noise due to current spikes from the 28V PWM driving into the

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-01-31 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/2/1 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com I'm jumping in here, without reading the entire discussion, but you need to ground the encoder housing as well. The Ethernet ground is not connected to the chassi of the encoder. I have been using AMT's for years with great success but had a tiny

Re: [Emc-users] OT about product names was - About the board, .....

2012-01-26 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/1/26 John Prentice j...@castlewd.freeserve.co.uk Babelfish translating mist to German is quite polite; our continental members may be more graphic! The image for R-R was not what was desired. I mean, of course, translating Mist from German. -- really must Think before Send GM

Re: [Emc-users] OT about product names was - About the board, .....

2012-01-26 Thread Sven Wesley
And the small but popular car Honda Fitta that just after its release was renamed to Jazz (Fit in the US). In Scandinvaian countries, fitta is another word for... ...pussy. Worse - Mitsubishi called their 4x4 - Pajero Translate to Spanish - Masturbator :) Steve Blackmore I can

Re: [Emc-users] Open letter to the EMC Board of Directors

2012-01-25 Thread Sven Wesley
Andy, Understandable. The paypal link could be set up so that it could be turned on when funds are needed and turned off when the funding is met. The treasurer would have to stay on top of that though. Mark This must be the most wide spread discussion in ages at this mailing list,

Re: [Emc-users] About the board, the rebrand, and the future

2012-01-25 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/1/25 Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com Michael, Thanks for your criticism. I have taken several days to think about it. I have not discussed my thoughts with the board and I am speaking only for myself and to my own relationship to the project. ...snip Chris, I think too you made the

Re: [Emc-users] Communication Channels (Was: An Open Letter...)

2012-01-25 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/1/24 Eric Keller eekel...@psu.edu Seems to me that the CNCzone moderator is a EMC doubter at best, maybe I'm wrong. You mean like, have-been-using-EMC-the-last-nine-years doubter? -- Keep Your Developer Skills

Re: [Emc-users] Open letter to the EMC Board of Directors

2012-01-24 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/1/24 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com On Monday, January 23, 2012 11:57:10 PM Jeff Epler did opine: Michael, I would like to address your concerns over the quality of the rebranding changes and the degree of consideration that they were given before they were made. I can speak

[Emc-users] Very neat idea of controlling the Z-level

2011-12-17 Thread Sven Wesley
Have you seen this? Z-adjustments for non planar surfaces. http://phk.freebsd.dk/CncPcb/ http://ing.dk/uploads/society/content/201.png There's a longer thread herehttp://www.cnczone.com/forums/pcb_milling/82628-cheap_simple_height-probing.html . I haven't seen this one before, even though the

Re: [Emc-users] Very neat idea of controlling the Z-level

2011-12-17 Thread Sven Wesley
2011/12/17 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com Thank You very much! The solution to isolate PCB and use existing tool in router for probing is genious! Since I might need to build a small machine for PCB routing, I have a question to those that do work on PCBs and would like to test

Re: [Emc-users] Very neat idea of controlling the Z-level

2011-12-17 Thread Sven Wesley
2011/12/17 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com That looks like EMC2 G-code to me. I am _fairly_ sure that the use of the O-word for subs and conditionals is unique to EMC2. It _is_ written for EMC. -- Learn Windows Azure

Re: [Emc-users] Very neat idea of controlling the Z-level

2011-12-17 Thread Sven Wesley
Does anyone read my lines?! :D 2011/12/17 Eric Keller eekel...@psu.edu At the link it says it's emc2 code On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 7:04 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 December 2011 10:43, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: The extension of the test g-code

[Emc-users] Stepconf is correct but EMC2/Axis gives 1/2 travel

2011-11-17 Thread Sven Wesley
Gents, I upgraded my PC to latest EMC2 (the 10.10 CD) and reconfigured with Stepconf (this is a step/dir servo based machine). If I test the config in Stepconf the axis is moving correct distance, but when I start EMC2/Axis for real the travel is only the half! When I physically measure 100 mm of

Re: [Emc-users] Stepconf is correct but EMC2/Axis gives 1/2 travel

2011-11-17 Thread Sven Wesley
Ignore my stupidity. Stepconf test is doing x mm in BOTH ways, not in total. 2011/11/17 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com Gents, I upgraded my PC to latest EMC2 (the 10.10 CD) and reconfigured with Stepconf (this is a step/dir servo based machine). If I test the config in Stepconf the axis

[Emc-users] Scary movement with burnt line driver

2011-10-28 Thread Sven Wesley
This is the story for you guys who thinks that safety features are not necessary. My pretty heavy and strong steel router went bananas the other day, all of a sudden the X-axis ran at full speed to the stop and it crunched everything that was in the new not-so-very-wanted path. I found out that

Re: [Emc-users] CAM program

2011-10-25 Thread Sven Wesley
I must say Wow! The screenshots are so much more complex than last time i checked FreeCAD. I'm working a lot in Rhino/MadCAM and unfortunately Rhino doesn't work in an *x-OS, so this looks like a good candidate for my workshop PC's! 2011/10/24 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com On 24 October 2011

Re: [Emc-users] Source tree at server hacked

2011-10-18 Thread Sven Wesley
Rechecked and it looks ok. :) 2011/10/17 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com On 17 October 2011 21:34, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: The backup/main.jpg is now unavailable, but my original posted URL is still the hacked version. I think that might be your cache, it looks OK to me

Re: [Emc-users] Source tree at server hacked

2011-10-17 Thread Sven Wesley
The backup/main.jpg is now unavailable, but my original posted URL is still the hacked version. I don't know how manages the site these days. Could this maybe be forwarded to an admin? Regards, Sven 2011/10/16 Karl Cunningham ka...@keckec.com On 10/15/2011 02:00 PM, Jon Elson wrote:

[Emc-users] Source tree at server hacked

2011-10-14 Thread Sven Wesley
http://linuxcnc.org/hardy/dists/hardy/emc2.4-sim/binary-amd64/ -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats,

[Emc-users] Updated deb-package to run emc2-sim on 11.04

2011-10-14 Thread Sven Wesley
Guys, I made a package to run the simulator on an 11.04-installation. It's available for public download here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45105575/emc2_2.4_SIM_for_U11.04.deb A video of it running is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbax-BpokFg I'll update the wiki as well, if there's any

Re: [Emc-users] pendant

2011-10-03 Thread Sven Wesley
There's an alternative that is very simple to setup. I have a pendant made out of a slaughtered USB Joypad. It requires 5 minutes of configuration. Everything is in the Wiki. The only thing I miss is the rotational jog, but with a step option up I can live without it. Regards, Sven 2011/10/2

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Cheap VFD

2011-10-03 Thread Sven Wesley
I have one of these in production. It works well and I can't complain about anything, it actually is very sturdy and accelerates/deccelerates smoothly. I haven't set it up with a modbus, I run it at full speed as default and then I adjust the RPM with a potentiometer at runtime. At the same time,

Re: [Emc-users] No-kidding CAD/Cam package for milling

2011-06-07 Thread Sven Wesley
2011/5/31 Igor Chudov ichu...@gmail.com I am aware that this is a can of worms. I will ask, nevertheless. I am becoming constrained by my approach of just write G code for anything I want. Is there an inexpensive CAD/CAM package that is EMC2 compatible, designed to work with milling

Re: [Emc-users] Preview on a robot arm

2011-06-04 Thread Sven Wesley
Yes, You saw correctly - there is only one Hiwin rail with 2 blocks. I wanted one more rail some 200 - 300 mm lower for increased stiffness, but the client rejected that idea, because that would cost too much. The thing is that the frame already was done, when I joined the project, so my

Re: [Emc-users] four/five axis design

2011-04-06 Thread Sven Wesley
I know, it's the easiest. Unfortunately, it's kinda hard to tilt a workshop floor. With that said, I need a tilting head... 2011/4/4 Dave Caroline dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com You can equally tilt the table to get the same/similar machining envelope. It depends on what you are going to make and

[Emc-users] four/five axis design

2011-04-03 Thread Sven Wesley
Guys, I need to make a tilting head 4-axis, further on also rotating to get the 5th axis. Before I start making parts, has anyone already made a similar machine or own one and would like to provide some details? Using belts as a transmission/gearing is no problem, servo or stepper is an open

Re: [Emc-users] serial touch screen

2011-02-23 Thread Sven Wesley
2011/2/23 Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com Gentlemen, FINALLY - I have an Elo serial touchscreen working in 10.04. Besides onBoard, have you tried any touch keyboard yet? I've heard that cellWriter is good enough to beat a standard touch keyboard layout.

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Sven Wesley
In 3.1 there's an Archive-function, test if that helps. Or maybe the SmartSave-plugin could help you as well: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Archiving_your_e-mail 2011/1/16 Igor Chudov ichu...@gmail.com I use mutt at home because I ssh to home a lot. At work, I use Evolution. I moved to gmail for

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Sven Wesley
I use Gmail, even for corporate e-mail. It really is a good client. All my private mail goes via Gmail. Though, I have to be a part of an Exchange-based office, and then Thunderbird is the best client. At least if you ask me. :) 2011/1/16 Mike Payson m...@dawgdayz.com John, ... Gmail's

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-15 Thread Sven Wesley
I would say that TB is the best e-mail client there is. Did you try to turn of Tools-Options-Advanced-General and the option Enable Global Search and Indexer? If you go to http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/support/ and search for indexing you'll have some options as well. Good luck!

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