Re: [Emc-developers] EMC and RT-Preempt

2011-06-18 Thread Michael Abel
Hello Guys, I probably found the problem, why you sometimes have to call halcmd as root to get emc started again. But I don't have a bugfix up to now. It seems like the complete hal shared memory is not given back to the os when emc is closed and my shm_tester is still running. For that reason y

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC and RT-Preempt

2011-06-18 Thread Lars Segerlund
I am seing the same thing, after running emc & your shm_tester a couple of times, ipcs gets some cruft, and I can not start emc again ... shm_tester segfaults Trying to investigate / regards Lars Segerlund 2011/6/18 Michael Abel : > > Hello Guys, > > I probably found the problem, why

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-18 Thread Jan de Kruyf
Jon, I see exactly this in yr pictures: (from the faq on their website) 9. How does angular acceleration affect pulses and error? Angular acceleration does not cause missing pulses. But it does cause some lag in position, proportional to acceleration and T^2. (with T= 100, 50, 25, 13 µs at resoluti

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC and RT-Preempt

2011-06-18 Thread Ron Bean
on Elson writes: >I've already paid for one BeagleBoard and sent it to a developer who >didn't make much progress >with it. At least, he still isn't finished. > >One problem with the OMAP chip they use in the Beagle is the GPIO is >only updated every 240 ns, although >the CPU is about 40 times f

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-18 Thread Jon Elson
Jan de Kruyf wrote: > Jon, > I see exactly this in yr pictures: (from the faq on their website) > > > 9. How does angular acceleration affect pulses and error? > > Angular acceleration does not cause missing pulses. But it does cause > some lag in position, proportional to acceleration and

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-18 Thread Kim Kirwan
Jon, I am very glad that you are doing this, I have wanted to do it myself for a long time. I have always felt that the CUI encoders, while being admirably cheap, are not as good as an optical encoder, but I have had no data to support my belief. Maybe you are about to come up with some. In the l

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-18 Thread Jan de Kruyf
Jon, the problem is that the delay between reality and the Z domain of the encoder is variable, so good tuning will be something somewhere in fairyland unless you lower the bandwidth of your drive right down so that the delay jitter becomes insignificant in respect to the bandwidth of your system.

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-18 Thread Jon Elson
Kim Kirwan wrote: > Jon, > > I am very glad that you are doing this, I have wanted to do it > myself for a long time. I have always felt that the CUI encoders, > while being admirably cheap, are not as good as an optical > encoder, but I have had no data to support my belief. Maybe you > are about

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-18 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Jon Elson wrote: Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:52:05 -0500 From: Jon Elson Reply-To: EMC developers To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders Kim Kirwan wrote: Jon, I am very glad that you are doing this, I have wanted to do it myself for a long time. I

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-18 Thread Kim Kirwan
The CUI sensors use the "kit" (frameless) mounting method. This mounting method lets you save money when your motor (or something) has a nice shaft sticking out the back, and a flat place to mount things. If you're ever looking for a "kit" (frameless) encoder, I have had good luck with USDigi

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-18 Thread Jon Elson
Kim Kirwan wrote: > The CUI sensors use the "kit" (frameless) mounting method. > This mounting method lets you save money when your motor > (or something) has a nice shaft sticking out the back, and > a flat place to mount things. > > If you're ever looking for a "kit" (frameless) encoder, I ha

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-18 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 17:14 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: ... snip > I have a personal bias against US Digital, as their low-cost line of > encoders have a number of deficiencies. They work well for me, am I missing something? http://www.wallacecompany.com/cnc_lathe/HNC/1-1a.jpg http://www.wallac

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-18 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 17:14 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > ... snip > >> I have a personal bias against US Digital, as their low-cost line of >> encoders have a number of deficiencies. >> > > They work well for me, am I missing something? > http://www.wallacecompany.com/c

[Emc-developers] 2.4.7 release date?

2011-06-18 Thread Chris Morley
Any idea when 2.4.7 will be released? There are quite a few bug fixes. Users are reporting bugs to me that are fixed just not released. Thanks Chris M -- EditLive Enterprise is t