Re: [Emc-users] Pissed off of EMC2 and 7i43

2008-11-16 Thread Glenn R. Edwards
Mr Acosta, I've had enough. Perhaps its from seeing the 'P' word time and time again in the subject line: it's sophomoric, insulting and reflects badly on the originator, you. Or perhaps it's your insistence on blaming others. There is not a manufacturer in the world with perfect documentation

Re: [Emc-users] Pissed off of EMC2 and 7i43

2008-11-16 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Senor Acosta, I must agree with Mr. Edwards. La problema es suyo. Empezo un projecto sin tiempo y education. Ambos son muy costo. On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Richard Acosta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El 09/11/08 18:55, noel escribió: Richard, I'm a happy and satisfied Mesanet

Re: [Emc-users] servo amplifier

2008-11-16 Thread Kevin Pauba
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Jeff Epler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use step+direction servos hooked to the parport with emc, but this has two big drawbacks. First, on dumb I/O like parport, you're limited to fairly modest step rates. Taken together with the 1/10 microstepping of

Re: [Emc-users] servo amplifier

2008-11-16 Thread Lawrence Glaister
snip... Hi Kevin, If you have servo motors in the 12 to 24 volt range needing less than 5 amps current, (50-100w servo), and you enjoy playing with pics, the dspic servo is a great little project. It can be built using samples for most of the components. It is not the most efficient output stage

Re: [Emc-users] servo amplifier

2008-11-16 Thread Kevin Pauba
Thanks for the reply Lawrence! I have studied the code and consider this very fine work. It's admirable that you've donated your time to share the knowledge. The gcode from the project was among the first I loaded into AXIS to simulate milling the circuit board. BTW, did you happen to have the

Re: [Emc-users] servo amplifier

2008-11-16 Thread Lawrence Glaister
Hi Kevin... I dont really pay much attention to the tool tables for drilling I have a box of #59 pcb drills and use those for everything... some things need to be a little bigger like TO-220 packages, and I just enlarge them by hand with a twist drill as needed. The #59 is a little large for

[Emc-users] Aniliam Crusader II on YCM-18

2008-11-16 Thread Rob White
Hi Everyone,   Im having trouble locating people who have done the EMC upgrade on an Anilam Crusader II Control. If anyone has any experience please let me know, ive been trying to get the pid working correctly and getting all the odds and ends working correctly. Thank you in advance for your

Re: [Emc-users] Aniliam Crusader II on YCM-18

2008-11-16 Thread Jon Elson
Rob White wrote: Hi Everyone, Im having trouble locating people who have done the EMC upgrade on an Anilam Crusader II Control. If anyone has any experience please let me know, ive been trying to get the pid working correctly and getting all the odds and ends working correctly. Thank

Re: [Emc-users] Pissed off snip

2008-11-16 Thread Greg Michalski
I don't normally pile one, typically I ignore the irrelevant messages. Hell, I rarely even post unless I am fairly confident I have the answer to someone's question. Normally I sit back, read and constantly learn from the information shared on this mailing list - but I have had some

Re: [Emc-users] Pissed off snip

2008-11-16 Thread Jack Coats
Thank you Greg. A very eloquent response. ... Jack Greg Michalski wrote: I don't normally pile one, typically I ignore the irrelevant messages. Hell, I rarely even post unless I am fairly confident I have the answer to someone's question. Normally I sit back, read and constantly learn

Re: [Emc-users] question about taig 3000 setup

2008-11-16 Thread Thomas L Marshall
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 22:55 +0200, Dave Houghton wrote: -Original Message- From: Thomas L Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 November 2008 10:08 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: [Emc-users] question about taig 3000 setup Hi all, Does anyone have a

Re: [Emc-users] question about taig 3000 setup

2008-11-16 Thread John Thornton
On 16 Nov 2008 at 14:39, Thomas L Marshall wrote: Currently all my designs fail with range errors on all axis which leads me to believe that I need to read on to learn about axis limit settings. Thanks again. Tom Tom the limit settings are on each axis page of the stepconf wizard.

[Emc-users] Touch probe functionality

2008-11-16 Thread Jack Coats
I saw this question asked, but I never saw an answer. From what I have seen it looks like the ABILITY is there, but my understanding of HOW TO is a little weak. In my vision of a perfect world (yes, dreaming, again), it would be nice to issue a command, or run a routing where I could give it,

Re: [Emc-users] Stepconf Sherline

2008-11-16 Thread Heinz Reimer
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Dave Houghton wrote: Hello Everyone In stepconf wizard and the page titled Basic machine information. Driver type has several options, when I choose Sherline, the Sherline mill does not work. Driver type - Other, works fine. I'm sure I've seem this

Re: [Emc-users] Touch probe functionality

2008-11-16 Thread Dean Hedin
I did this in EMC 1. At that time I had to write a special program to do this. The program talked to emc through NML and wrote out the g-code file. However I believe this can now be done in EMC2 with just a g-code sequence. Be advised that it takes a long time to probe even a small area in

Re: [Emc-users] Touch probe functionality

2008-11-16 Thread Jack Coats
I hate answering my own messages, but I found what I wanted. I promise, I tried to look first before I posted, but life happens. There are samples in /usr/share/emc/ of .ngc files that deal with probes and logging data. like: gridprobe.ngc probe-hole.ngc smartprobe.ngc tool-length-probe.ngc

Re: [Emc-users] Aniliam Crusader II on YCM-18

2008-11-16 Thread RogerN
I was preparing for a Crusader II conversion on my mill, then I bought a lathe with a Crusader M Lathe control that didn't work and converted that to EMC. The Anilam Crusader II and M that I have both use servo drives with + - 10V control and use tachometer feedback to the drive. The mill

Re: [Emc-users] Stepconf Sherline

2008-11-16 Thread Jeff Epler
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 06:30:24PM -0600, Heinz Reimer wrote: In summary, for users of Sherline drivers who have problems with their machine setup, I think the best bet is still to use the sample stepper XYZA configuration, with ini file edited to match the factory settings. Stepconfig

[Emc-users] Material

2008-11-16 Thread An Pham Duc
I have found a paper Enhanced Machine Controller Architecture Overview but until now I do not have it. Could someone having can share it with me - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge

Re: [Emc-users] Material

2008-11-16 Thread Heinz Reimer
An Pham Duc wrote: I have found a paper Enhanced Machine Controller Architecture Overview but until now I do not have it. Could someone having can share it with me - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move

Re: [Emc-users] Material

2008-11-16 Thread tomp
Heinz Reimer wrote: An Pham Duc wrote: I have found a paper Enhanced Machine Controller Architecture Overview but until now I do not have it. Could someone having can share it with me - This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Emc-users] Pissed off snip

2008-11-16 Thread Rob Jansen
Thank you Greg, but I have had some unrealistic expectations placed on me at work (my meat and potatoes job) recently which I stood up against (successfully) My MPJ just told me that I may get loads of time for my hobbies (they call it 'resturcturing' and 'making people redundant', I

Re: [Emc-users] question about taig 3000 setup

2008-11-16 Thread Lester Caine
Thomas TAIG DSLS 3000 (work in progress) Driver Characteristic: 5us - step time 5us - step space 5us - dir hold 5us - dir setup Parallel Port: P1 - on/offP14 - unused P2 - x-dir (invert)P15 - a-alert (invert) P2 - x-stepP16 - aux-1 P4 - y-dir (invert)