Re: [Emc-users] emcrsh says NAK

2009-01-16 Thread Belli Button
The machine that goes 'ping' - Original Message - From: "Leslie Newell" To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:04 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] emcrsh says NAK > The knights who say Ni! > > Les > > Belli Button wrote: >> The machine that says NAK, d

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Tom
Peter blodow writes: snip... > A couple of days ago when I read the discussions about getting > hit by electricity because of poor (or no) grounding of the VFD I felt > cold shudders down my back... I learned electricity and house wiring at my > Michigan high school back in 1965 and can't ge

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Tom
Andre B. writes: > Yep, were it me I would put some bigger radii in the corners and run > a carbide ball end mill finish pass with say 0.005" or less down > steps. Wind it up as fast as it will turn and feed it as fast as it will go. > > In the video that squawking that John is referring to

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Jon Elson
John Kasunich wrote: > > One thing to keep in mind when considering the tapered end mill idea > is chatter. > > The existing stepped design limits the depth of cut (width of cutting > edge engaged) to the height of one step. If you use a tapered end > mill, the cutting edge will be engaged in t

Re: [Emc-users] joint 1 on limit switch error

2009-01-16 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 09:12 +, Tom wrote: > >> Gene Heskett writes: >> snip... >> >>> That pretty much leaves noise pickup or ground loops. All grounds should >>> be >>> star topology and tied well to the 3rd pin of a power plug. Shielding on >>> cables shoul

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i23 and 7i37 I/O problem

2009-01-16 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Donnie Timmons wrote: > Peter wrote >> Sebastian, not related to Donnies problem, but the "pulses the output when >> EMC >> starts up" statement is a little bothersome. There are some things that need >> to be done in a particular order in the GPIO initialization to avoid >> possible >> startu

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i23 and 7i37 I/O problem

2009-01-16 Thread Donnie Timmons
Peter wrote >I did verify that at least hardware/firmware wise, The 5I23 configs work fine >with the 7I37/7I37T on any 5I23 connector. Ok that's a given if it setup correctly. Any good exmples of a hal for a 5i23 that using 7i37 and 7i33? The encoder are working but none of the GPIO is working

[Emc-users] emcrsh now says ACK

2009-01-16 Thread Christopher Purcell
Thank you Eric Johnson and Les Newell in your replies of 16 Jan. The default setup for emcrsh works as you explained. This was using Telnet on an Mac OS X client machine to the Ubuntu/emc server machine. It would be useful if the wiki page for emcrsh had a precis of your comments added to it.

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Andre B.
At 09:48 AM 1/16/2009, you wrote: >One thing to keep in mind when considering the tapered end mill idea >is chatter. > >The existing stepped design limits the depth of cut (width of >cutting edge engaged) to the height of one step. If you use a >tapered end mill, the cutting edge will be engag

Re: [Emc-users] EMC problem

2009-01-16 Thread George Erickson
Thank you - It works now :) On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 16:12 -0500, sam sokolik wrote: > You are picking a config that is wanting hardware you probably don't have > > insmod: error inserting > > '/usr/realtime-2.6.24-16-rtai/modules/emc2/hal_motenc.ko': -1 No such > > It is trying to find the motenc

Re: [Emc-users] Override (force) HAL inputs

2009-01-16 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Jeff Epler wrote: >You should go with John's proposed solution, using HAL realtime >components to perform the logic between the physical input and the panel >item. It's a much better idea than Stephen's. > > Heh. That is assuming that he wants an override for an attached machine function, ver

Re: [Emc-users] emcrsh says NAK

2009-01-16 Thread Leslie Newell
The knights who say Ni! Les Belli Button wrote: > The machine that says NAK, didn't Monty Python write about this? > > -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story.

Re: [Emc-users] Override (force) HAL inputs

2009-01-16 Thread Jeff Epler
You should go with John's proposed solution, using HAL realtime components to perform the logic between the physical input and the panel item. It's a much better idea than Stephen's. Jeff -- This SF.net email is sponsore

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 January 2009, Peter blodow wrote: >Weeell Gene, >of course, I'm no cold technocrat with no other interest (even bike rider >in Summer, too). It's just that: I have been following those EMC >discussions only since I heard about EMC for the first time shortly before >Xmas. Ahh, welcome!

Re: [Emc-users] Override (force) HAL inputs

2009-01-16 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Thomas Kaiser wrote: >Hello All > >I would like to override (force) the input of the home switches for testing. > >I created a "checkbutton" vcp component which should overwrite the >"both-home-x/y" signal: > > > "x-axis-home-force" > > >In the postgui.hal: >linksp both-home-x pyvcp.x-axis-ho

Re: [Emc-users] Override (force) HAL inputs

2009-01-16 Thread John Thornton
What you want to do is "or" the the inputs. http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//hal_basic_hal.html#r1_3_5 John On 16 Jan 2009 at 23:43, Thomas Kaiser wrote: > Hello All > > I would like to override (force) the input of the home switches for > testing. > > I created a "checkbutton" vcp compo

[Emc-users] Override (force) HAL inputs

2009-01-16 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hello All I would like to override (force) the input of the home switches for testing. I created a "checkbutton" vcp component which should overwrite the "both-home-x/y" signal: "x-axis-home-force" In the postgui.hal: linksp both-home-x pyvcp.x-axis-home-force But this does not work. I

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i23 and 7i37 I/O problem

2009-01-16 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:58:09 -0600 > From: Sebastian Kuzminsky > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i23 and 7i37 I/O problem > > Donnie Timmons wrote

Re: [Emc-users] EMC problem

2009-01-16 Thread sam sokolik
You are picking a config that is wanting hardware you probably don't have insmod: error inserting '/usr/realtime-2.6.24-16-rtai/modules/emc2/hal_motenc.ko': -1 No such It is trying to find the motenc servo board. Try any of the sim configs to play. san George Erickson wrote: > Sorry this i

[Emc-users] EMC problem

2009-01-16 Thread George Erickson
Sorry this is my first post so i have no clue if this is the proper way of doing it. But I installed EMC2 from a Hardy Heron 8.04 live disk on to my computer. Now emc 2 won't start. When i start it a message of EMC terminated with an error: Print file information: RUN_IN_PLACE=no EMC2_DIR= EMC2_B

Re: [Emc-users] emcrsh says NAK

2009-01-16 Thread Belli Button
The machine that says NAK, didn't Monty Python write about this? - Original Message - From: "Leslie Newell" To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] emcrsh says NAK > Hi Christoper > > >> emcrsh as the wiki suggests, but

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Dirk
On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:11 PM, Tom wrote: > Dave Engvall writes: > > snip... > >> One trick is to machine the part out of plexiglas and then heat to >> stress relieve. >> Then stress the part and view with polarized light; one can see the >> stress points and engineer the >> design to compensate

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 19:24 +0100, Peter blodow wrote: ... snip > At the moment I feel like if I were in a pool > without knowing much about swimming. Therefore, I need to watch and listen > to others who know more about swimming, listening to motorbike talk doesn't > bring me forward. I sense

Re: [Emc-users] joint 1 on limit switch error

2009-01-16 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Mike Merrett wrote: >Hi: > Does anyone know why I am getting this error ? "Joint 1 on Limit Switch > Error" it is happening more and more often on my mill -- it is using the > sherline driver box on a sherline mill. > > It's because an input, which is connected to the X limit input on th

Re: [Emc-users] [OT] soap box Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 09:46 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 16 January 2009, Peter blodow wrote: > >Hello all you bicyclers, > >I thougt this EMC was a machine controlling forum, but machining machines, > >not riding machines. Let's confine ourselves to machine control and > >exchange constr

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Peter blodow
Weeell Gene, of course, I'm no cold technocrat with no other interest (even bike rider in Summer, too). It's just that: I have been following those EMC discussions only since I heard about EMC for the first time shortly before Xmas. Since then, I've been trying to pick up as much information fro

Re: [Emc-users] joint 1 on limit switch error

2009-01-16 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 09:12 +, Tom wrote: > Gene Heskett writes: > snip... > > That pretty much leaves noise pickup or ground loops. All grounds should > > be > > star topology and tied well to the 3rd pin of a power plug. Shielding on > > cables should be tied to ground at only one end e

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread John Kasunich
Tom wrote: Those are tapered walls. The contours for those pockets are about 50 thou inset at the bottom of the pocket, so the walls are that much thicker down there. It might be worth investigating using a 3/8 endmill with a 1/16" radius end. That would give some gradation to each Z level step

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i23 and 7i37 I/O problem

2009-01-16 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Donnie Timmons wrote: > I put this in the hal file the only thing different is it now pulses the > output when EMC starts up but I still can not control it. Right now I'm only > looking at the brake output. I'm sure that once I get the brake working the > other will be the same problem. > > # C

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 January 2009, Peter blodow wrote: >Hello all you bicyclers, >I thougt this EMC was a machine controlling forum, but machining machines, >not riding machines. Let's confine ourselves to machine control and >exchange construction hints (how thick should the stock be?) and >motorbiking ex

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 January 2009, Tom wrote: >Gene Heskett writes: > >snip... > >> I think I'd ask to forgo the lightening cavities entirely. > >I talked with my customer this morning and got permission to forgo the >cavities. So the "Gene Heskett V8 triple tree" is born... > That makes me feel much bett

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Get a tapered end mill. Ken Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > Tom wrote: > >> Steve Blackmore writes: >> >> >> >>> Hi Tom - can't you remove them with a full depth finishing cut? Distinct >>> edges like that are stress magnets ;) >>> >>> Steve Blackmore >>> >>> >> Hi Steve, >> Those are tap

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Peter blodow
Hello all you bicyclers, I thougt this EMC was a machine controlling forum, but machining machines, not riding machines. Let's confine ourselves to machine control and exchange construction hints (how thick should the stock be?) and motorbiking experiences at other news congregations. Best regar

Re: [Emc-users] emcrsh says NAK

2009-01-16 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Chris, As Les said, it should work very simply. Unless you want to change one of the defaults, all you should need in your hal file is: loadusr emcrsh You indicate that you have that working, but best to start with the defaults. After connecting with telnet, the hello string should be: hello EM

Re: [Emc-users] joint 1 on limit switch error

2009-01-16 Thread Tom
Gene Heskett writes: snip... > That pretty much leaves noise pickup or ground loops. All grounds should be > star topology and tied well to the 3rd pin of a power plug. Shielding on > cables should be tied to ground at only one end else that can setup a ground > loop... Mike, I second Ge

Re: [Emc-users] emcrsh says NAK

2009-01-16 Thread Leslie Newell
Hi Christoper > emcrsh as the wiki suggests, but could not log in. The default > passwords EMC and EMCTOO resulted in > HELLO NAK Are you using the correct syntax? Hello Actually the current emcrsh doesn't do anything with client and version but they must be there. I normally use something

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Tom
Greg Michalski writes: snip... > Aside from a 5 axis (drool..), would a tapered endmill (such as used for > mold work) achieve the desired angle? Just spit-balling. Very nice work > Tom - great to see stuff like this. Thanks Greg. I have not used tapered endmill yet, but it looks favorable

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Tom
Gene Heskett writes: snip... > I think I'd ask to forgo the lightening cavities entirely. I talked with my customer this morning and got permission to forgo the cavities. So the "Gene Heskett V8 triple tree" is born... snip... > You would I think, enjoy the trip if you "stop and smell the ros

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-16 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:19:25 + (UTC), you wrote: >Those are tapered walls. The contours for those pockets are about 50 thou inset >at the bottom of the pocket, so the walls are that much thicker down there. It >might be worth investigating using a 3/8 endmill with a 1/16" radius end. That >wo