Re: [Emc-users] Additional I/O Modbus card.

2008-01-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Colin F. MacKenzie wrote: >Yes, they support clock-stretching, this is pretty normal. They also >support multi-master (I am 99% sure). Really, tho, it's the adapter >driver that determines the clock-stretching support (ability to read >status of clk line). My custom adap

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 20, Issue 52

2008-01-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Colin F. MacKenzie wrote: >A simple voltage divider on any inputs greater than 10v will work fine. >If you mean voltage divider as a kind of voltage supply regulator then >no, don't do it. Most especially ADCs. I also assume you are not talking >about sampling audio with

[Emc-users] EMC2 Installation

2008-01-01 Thread Colin F. MacKenzie
Ok, I am having a problem with installing emc2 on a computer. Up to now I have been using the Live CD and having my cnc config on a flash drive, but the bootup is slow. I already had ubuntu Edgy Eft installed so I tried to install there with apt-get commands and I am getting "Broken packages" due t

Re: [Emc-users] Additional I/O Modbus card.

2008-01-01 Thread Colin F. MacKenzie
Yes, they support clock-stretching, this is pretty normal. They also support multi-master (I am 99% sure). Really, tho, it's the adapter driver that determines the clock-stretching support (ability to read status of clk line). My custom adapter using a CPLD supported it. What is really nice about

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 20, Issue 52

2008-01-01 Thread Colin F. MacKenzie
A simple voltage divider on any inputs greater than 10v will work fine. If you mean voltage divider as a kind of voltage supply regulator then no, don't do it. Most especially ADCs. I also assume you are not talking about sampling audio with this ADC but data acquisition? Audio sampling needs to be

Re: [Emc-users] Additional I/O Modbus card.

2008-01-01 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Colin F. MacKenzie wrote: >Linux has great i2c bus support, I have made i2c adapter and client (i2c >device drivers), they are only a page or so of code. This is a two wire >protocol. They are great for non-realtime sensors or controls. > > Do the Linux drivers deal with slaves that do clock-pul

Re: [Emc-users] Additional I/O Modbus card.

2008-01-01 Thread Colin F. MacKenzie
Linux has great i2c bus support, I have made i2c adapter and client (i2c device drivers), they are only a page or so of code. This is a two wire protocol. They are great for non-realtime sensors or controls. -Original Message- From: Stephen Wille Padnos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue

Re: [Emc-users] ADC into EMC

2008-01-01 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 08:19 -0600, John Thornton wrote: > On 31 Dec 2007 at 19:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Kirk, > > On the other hand I could just use a $99 plc with an $115 4 channel 12 bit > analog card that takes 0-10v. I believe EMC doesn't talk to PLC's yet, but appears Steve has j

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 20, Issue 52

2008-01-01 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 07:17 -0600, John Thornton wrote: > Hi Kirk, > > For the single channel ADC do you have a chip picked out? I think that > I'll just use the MAX186 in the article and ground the unused inputs unless > you have a better one. A quick google search and it seems to be used a lot.

Re: [Emc-users] ADC into EMC

2008-01-01 Thread John Thornton
On 31 Dec 2007 at 19:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kirk, On the other hand I could just use a $99 plc with an $115 4 channel 12 bit analog card that takes 0-10v. Could you do something like BCD into EMC from the plc? Looking at Dallur's chart he is just sending Move Z up or down from his THC.

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 20, Issue 52

2008-01-01 Thread John Thornton
Hi Kirk, For the single channel ADC do you have a chip picked out? I think that I'll just use the MAX186 in the article and ground the unused inputs unless you have a better one. A quick google search and it seems to be used a lot. Nosing around on Maxium's site I found some chips that take 0-10v