Re: [Emc-users] hal servo questions

2007-10-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Peter C. Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is happening is this: Thanks for the explanation, that helped a lot, I think I got most of it. :-) To solve your problem there are a couple of things to try: 1. Live with it and offset you PDM As you say, it actually works ok with the

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel port problems

2007-10-09 Thread Paul Pierce
I could not source enough current from my Parallel port for my controll card to drive my stepper motor, so today, i added a new PCI parallel port card. Some information on the wiki: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?NetMos Thanks Chris. My problem is that even when i try to

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel port problems

2007-10-09 Thread Alex Joni
Hi Paul, can you give us the output of 'lsmod' from before starting emc2? Maybe you can join #emc on irc.freenode.net (would be faster than exchanging emails every couple of days) Regards, Alex - Original Message - From: Paul Pierce To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Emc-users] hal servo questions

2007-10-09 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:33:12PM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Mine is an 8322, yours is a 9413, I can read the label in this picture: http://timeguy.com/cradek-files/cnc/lathe/DSCN6295.JPG The current lineup of 9xxx motors have much more torque than the 8xxx series motor I'm using,

[Emc-users] adding u v w to axis

2007-10-09 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, These are the changes I made to the axis file in trunk/bin/ from: comp = hal.component(axisui) comp.newpin(jog.x, hal.HAL_BIT, hal.HAL_OUT) comp.newpin(jog.y, hal.HAL_BIT, hal.HAL_OUT) comp.newpin(jog.z, hal.HAL_BIT, hal.HAL_OUT) comp.newpin(jog.a, hal.HAL_BIT, hal.HAL_OUT)

Re: [Emc-users] adding u v w to axis

2007-10-09 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 07:56:40AM -0500, Stuart Stevenson wrote: If someone fixes this and commits it would you please give me a roadmap of what you did as an education tool for me? This is exactly the fix I checked in yesterday.

[Emc-users] EMC2.2

2007-10-09 Thread Cecil Thomas
I am about to format a drive and install Ubuntu/Emc on a newly aquired pc and I have a couple of questions. What is a very rough eta on EMC2.2 release? This month, this calender year? Will the release be on live CD? I have a working setup with the current version and can re-install it on the

Re: [Emc-users] G-Code Gotchas

2007-10-09 Thread Jon Elson
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Jon Elson wrote: [snip] Oh, I've got one, too: If you have a start spindle (M03 S1234) in the first line of the program, and use the run from line function in Axis, it will not start the spindle! There is no workaround for this except a manual spindle switch.

Re: [Emc-users] hal servo questions

2007-10-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Sebastian Kuzminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Elson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need a lot more voltage supplying the H bridge. At 55% duty cycle, you are getting 12 * 0.55 = 6.6 V at the motor. I am a little surprised the motor doesn't start to turn before this, it must have a

Re: [Emc-users] hal servo questions

2007-10-09 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:33:38 -0600 From: Sebastian Kuzminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

Re: [Emc-users] hal servo questions

2007-10-09 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:07:08 -0600 From: Sebastian Kuzminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

Re: [Emc-users] hal servo questions

2007-10-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:33 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: ... snip I don't have an oscilloscope, just a cheap multimeter, so I don't think I can accurately measure the current just at spinup time. Or wait, would this work? I'll put the ammeter inline with one of the motor leads, and

Re: [Emc-users] hal servo questions

2007-10-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Peter C. Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW we have several of the what I think are same type of motors (19.1V, 500 count encoder) The ones we have come from HP 7540? plotters. Yeah, they seem like fairly common motors. Are you using yours as servos by any chance? I'm curious, what kind of

Re: [Emc-users] hal servo questions

2007-10-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Chris Radek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:33:12PM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: What kind of leadscrews are you using? they are the 1mm pitch triangular thread that came on the machine. This gives a scale of 6000 counts/mm, too high for software counting at much

[Emc-users] Thanks, and by the way here's yet another question!!!!

2007-10-09 Thread Patrick Ferrick
Hey everybody- Thanks, Jon et al for setting me straight concerning the whole G54 offset thing. The wiki page was very helpful. I had no idea that offsets like this would persist from instance to instance of EMC2... On to the next question! I'd kind of like to be able to use M3,4 / M5 to

Re: [Emc-users] hal servo questions

2007-10-09 Thread samco
gecko servo drives are step and direction input. this puts the pid loop outside of emc. (for some reason I don't like that ;)) I have been playing around with a 10+ amp fet bridge that jmk helped me with. It has no current limiting but has not been a problem so far.. It does turn on the lower

[Emc-users] How to use together two 5i20 board???

2007-10-09 Thread amtb
Hi I asked many times before but couldn?t get answer. What is the solution for putting two 5i20 cards into one setup? It is impossible to put two 5i20 boards in one computer because space between two boards is so small that it is impossible ? no room for 50 pin connectors at all. The single

Re: [Emc-users] G code gotchas

2007-10-09 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, When starting in the middle of a program on my Cincinnati control and (I think) Haas controls the controls process the program as if the machine was running. This sets the state of everything as if you ran the machine to that postition and pushed feed hold. When you push cycle start

[Emc-users] Emc2 2nd hard drive not recognized

2007-10-09 Thread Jack Ensor
Using Emc2 off of the Live cd and updated to 2.1.7, I installed a 2nd hard drive but the file browser does not see it. It is detected okay in the bios. What could be the problem? Jack Ensor - This SF.net email is

[Emc-users] Cutter Radius Compensation (Material Edge Contour)

2007-10-09 Thread Alan Condit
Hi all, I am trying to figure out Cutter radius compensation. And everything I try seems to be wrong. The example in the manual even reports Concave corner with cutter radius comp. I have written a short program to cut the outline of a gate handle and it reports Cutter gouging with

Re: [Emc-users] G-Code Gotchas

2007-10-09 Thread Jon Elson
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Jon Elson wrote: Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Jon Elson wrote: [snip] Oh, I've got one, too: If you have a start spindle (M03 S1234) in the first line of the program, and use the run from line function in Axis, it will not start the spindle! There is

Re: [Emc-users] hal servo questions

2007-10-09 Thread Jon Elson
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Sebastian Kuzminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Elson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need a lot more voltage supplying the H bridge. At 55% duty cycle, you are getting 12 * 0.55 = 6.6 V at the motor. I am a little surprised the motor doesn't start to turn before

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2.2

2007-10-09 Thread Jeff Epler
I hope that 2.2 will be out this calendar year. When it is available, you'll have a choice of upgrading to it on your existing installation (though not if it's Ubuntu 5.10), or installing fresh from a new Live CD image that will be released at about the same time. Jeff

[Emc-users] howto compile emc on mips

2007-10-09 Thread chenggang qin
hello everyone: we have a computer whose architecture is mips.I try to compile the emc(version: 1.2.0-rc1) on the machine. But I found there is a object file in /emc/src/emcmot .The file is smallmath.o , its format is X86. so I cannot link it on the mips machine. How can I do with it? or

Re: [Emc-users] Thanks, and by the way here's yet another question!!!!

2007-10-09 Thread Jeff Epler
Make sure you issue a nonzero spindle speed, even if your spindle has no speed control: M3 S1000 Jeff - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search

Re: [Emc-users] howto compile emc on mips

2007-10-09 Thread Jeff Epler
emc 1.2.0 is an old and no longer developed version of emc. The current version of emc2 doesn't have any file named smallmath.o. the contents of smallmath.o are uninteresting: 00cc W acos 00cc T __acos 00c0 W atan 00c0 T __atan 0050 W cos 0050 T __cos T