Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Jon Elson
John Kasunich wrote: > One approach is to consider the power-up state as "acceptable" meaning > "since the motors were free-wheeling a minute ago, there can't be too > much stress in the machine". Record the offset between the two encoder > feedbacks before enabling the amps, and maintain that off

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Jon Elson
Kenneth Lerman wrote: > > Well, if one side can back drive the other, a possible sequence is: > > 1 -- Float side B and home side A. Side A will drag side B along with it. > > 2 -- Side B will be off of its home switch. Now lock side A (keep the > servo active) and home side B. > > 3 -- Now b

Re: [Emc-users] ac servo tuning

2008-07-14 Thread Jon Elson
Ed wrote: > Jon Elson wrote: > >>Terry wrote: >> >> >>>Hi >>> >>>I have been trying to tune my ac drives using the method in the >>>intergrators manual--Increase the p till oscillate then increase I >>>till it stops >> > > > This is very interesting to me as I recently purchased a small HMC with

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, John Kasunich wrote: > Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:11:13 -0400 > From: John Kasunich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY > > Jon Elson wrote: >> I've seen

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread John Kasunich
Jon Elson wrote: > I've seen pictures of the machine, it looks quite rigid, > a welded steel box-tube frame with round slider ways bolted > every 100 - 200 mm. A modestly robust gantry, although it looks > like 80-20 extrusion plus several round ways between the two ends. >> It might be worth c

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Jon Elson wrote: > Kenneth Lerman wrote: >> Jon Elson wrote: >> >>> Ray Henry wrote: >>> Are there swivel joints between the two screws so that the motors can move independent of each other? >>> Excellent point, and no, there do not appear to be any joints >>> between the two sides. (

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Jon Elson
Kenneth Lerman wrote: > > Jon Elson wrote: > >>Ray Henry wrote: >> >>>Are there swivel joints between the two screws so that the motors can >>>move independent of each other? >> >>Excellent point, and no, there do not appear to be any joints >>between the two sides. (Dr. Lie has sent me photos

Re: [Emc-users] ac servo tuning

2008-07-14 Thread Ed
Jon Elson wrote: > Terry wrote: > >>Hi >> >>I have been trying to tune my ac drives using the method in the >>intergrators manual--Increase the p till oscillate then increase I >>till it stops > This is very interesting to me as I recently purchased a small HMC with Fanuc AC amps and motors. W

Re: [Emc-users] resolver to quadrature converter

2008-07-14 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Jon Elson wrote: > Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:33:37 -0500 > From: Jon Elson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] resolver to quadrature converter > > Dave Engvall wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Ray Henry
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 13:02 -0400, Kenneth Lerman wrote: > > Jon Elson wrote: > > Ray Henry wrote: > >> Are there swivel joints between the two screws so that the motors can > >> move independent of each other? > > Excellent point, and no, there do not appear to be any joints > > between the two

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Jon Elson wrote: > Ray Henry wrote: >> Are there swivel joints between the two screws so that the motors can >> move independent of each other? > Excellent point, and no, there do not appear to be any joints > between the two sides. (Dr. Lie has sent me photos of the > machine.) That is going

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Jon Elson
Ray Henry wrote: > Are there swivel joints between the two screws so that the motors can > move independent of each other? Excellent point, and no, there do not appear to be any joints between the two sides. (Dr. Lie has sent me photos of the machine.) That is going to make it MUCH harder to pr

Re: [Emc-users] resolver to quadrature converter

2008-07-14 Thread Jon Elson
Dave Engvall wrote: > Hi Steve, Jon: > > The Analog Devices chips have really good specs especially at low freq. > How they are rather pricey in todays world of inexpensive chips with > excellent performance. A couple of $14 to $31 chips drives the price of > the finished board up pretty fast.

Re: [Emc-users] resolver to quadrature converter

2008-07-14 Thread Jon Elson
Steve White wrote: > Jon, > > I'm the guy from the CNC Workshop that had the Yaskawa encoder > documentation you needed for testing the resolver to quadrature > conversion. I also had the Panasonic servo motors / drives and a lot of > other junk for sale there. > > Have you looked at

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 27, Issue 20

2008-07-14 Thread glenn de moor
Hello Alex, Thank you for the reply. -the md5 for the 8.04 emc2 version is different than mentioned on the website (1f30fb07a22ae3e2cf17c486f41e1c9a) Strange as I downloaded the same file again to be sure. both copies return as md5 1f30 -I then dl'ed the 6.06 version (which yields the corr

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Ray Henry
Are there swivel joints between the two screws so that the motors can move independent of each other? On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 20:54 +0700, Lie Seng-Thok wrote: > Hello, > > I just nearly completed the project of retrofitting of CNC router, > with tandem configuration on the Y-axes > > (i.e. 2 m

Re: [Emc-users] stepper config

2008-07-14 Thread Ray Henry
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 19:30 -0700, Cindee Lichter wrote: > I agree. I've tried so many different times that I have a big list that > doesn't make any sence so now I'm loading ubuntu for the 4th time. Hi John One small thought for those sorta new to Linux is that you need not reload the computer

Re: [Emc-users] resolver to quadrature converter

2008-07-14 Thread Dave Engvall
Hi Steve, Jon: The Analog Devices chips have really good specs especially at low freq. How they are rather pricey in todays world of inexpensive chips with excellent performance. A couple of $14 to $31 chips drives the price of the finished board up pretty fast. There is a National tach ch

[Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Lie Seng-Thok
Hello, I just nearly completed the project of retrofitting of CNC router, with tandem configuration on the Y-axes (i.e. 2 motors on the Y movemet). Can I get help from members who had done the setting of "homing" sequence in HAL for this tandem YY? The controller used is univpwm system from Pi

Re: [Emc-users] Using own driver and other newbie questions

2008-07-14 Thread Preben Mikael Bohn
> One possible approach is to start with the "sim" configuration, in which > position commands are looped back to position feedback. Yes, I think this would probably be the best thing to do; I really have no need for the realtime behaviour as such. > Add to this a > sampler RT component which al

Re: [Emc-users] resolver to quadrature converter

2008-07-14 Thread Steve White
Jon, I just noticed the data sheet for the AD650 contains a link to an application note specific to F/V conversion. The link is broken, but I did find it after some searching. It seems like the hard part will be at or near zero speed. Here's a link to it anyway... http://www.analog.

Re: [Emc-users] resolver to quadrature converter

2008-07-14 Thread Steve White
Jon, I'm the guy from the CNC Workshop that had the Yaskawa encoder documentation you needed for testing the resolver to quadrature conversion. I also had the Panasonic servo motors / drives and a lot of other junk for sale there. Have you looked at the AD650 (also from Analog Devices

Re: [Emc-users] livecd Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron fails on boot

2008-07-14 Thread Alex Joni
the only idea I have is that there might have been a problem during burning... did you verify the md5sum of the cd before writing? Regards, Alex - Original Message - From: "glenn de moor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 1:46 PM Subject: [Emc-users] livecd Ubuntu 8.04

[Emc-users] livecd Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron fails on boot

2008-07-14 Thread glenn de moor
Hello, Wanting to try out EMC2, I just downloaded the livecd based on *Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. * however booting from the cd fails immediately on start with following message: ISOLINUX 3.53 Debian-2007-12-11 Unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg. Unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg. Unknown keyword

Re: [Emc-users] stepper config

2008-07-14 Thread John Thornton
Can you tell me what parts you see on the screen that don't match the book and in which manual? I'm in the process of organizing the manuals most of which will come out with 2.2.6. For a really short description of getting up and running once you have the liveCD installed. 1 run the latency

[Emc-users] EMC as PLC

2008-07-14 Thread Klemen Dovrtel
Is it possible to somehow set the EMC to work as PLC, totally autonomous with some options of g-code control? Regards Klemen - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that