Re: [Emc-users] Uni-directional approach?

2009-07-18 Thread Rob Jansen
Cal, > unidirectional approach feature. > > Is this specialization supported by G-code and EMC? > OR is backlash compensation the avenue to achieve the required results? > Yes and No on both your questions :-) Yes, unidirectional is supported - by your CAM software (but this does not work for

Re: [Emc-users] Uni-directional approach?

2009-07-18 Thread Leslie Newell
As long as your backlash is the same all over the travel then backlash compensation can work quite well in a point to point application. It helps to have a little bit of friction in the ways. If you are using ball slides then it doesn't work as well. With lower friction slides, keeping the acce

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 homing

2009-07-18 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Does that make sense? If the terminator is really 100 ohms, that would imply that the pull up is in the order of ten ohms. (Am I correct in my assumption that the power supply is five volts?) Ken Leslie Newell wrote: > Hi Ken, > > Yes, this was under load. > > Les > > Kenneth Lerman wrote: >

Re: [Emc-users] Current state of EMC2 teach funtionality ?

2009-07-18 Thread Jon Elson
OK, it seems that the teach function is handled by teach-in.py, which looks quite simple. It appears that it may only record endpoints of moves, and not the velocity. Is that correct? I can't find any documentation on teach-in.py other than the code file, itself. Have I missed it? Can anyone

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 homing

2009-07-18 Thread Leslie Newell
Hi Ken, It does make sense. It looks like the encoder outputs are push-pull. Just fro the record I never said they had pullups. Someone just mentioned that some encoders do have weak pullups. Les Kenneth Lerman wrote: > Does that make sense? If the terminator is really 100 ohms, that would >

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 homing

2009-07-18 Thread Leslie Newell
Hi Peter, What is the default value for the filter? I found that a value of 1 nearly sorted the problem. A value of 2 was pretty well rock solid. Just to be sure I set it to 6 as my max frequency is well under 200kHz. I guess it is already on your to-do list but I would guess that it would be

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 homing

2009-07-18 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Leslie Newell wrote: > Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:04:47 +0100 > From: Leslie Newell > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 homing > > Hi Peter, > > What is the default value for the

[Emc-users] emc2 live download

2009-07-18 Thread Rondal Nannie
I am a new user and I tried to down load emc2 live and it will not run or install. Also can or is it ok to download to a lap top? I  read some where on the directions that it would stop the computer from going into hibernation? Is that correct? Thanks Ron

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 live download

2009-07-18 Thread John Guenther
Did you burn the image to a CD? The EMC2 live CD download is the image for a bootable CD that you can run EMC2 from. There is an option in the startup menu to install it to the hard drive or there is an icon on the screen to run the install. - John Guenther 'Ye Olde Pen Maker' Sterling, Virgini

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 live download

2009-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 July 2009, Rondal Nannie wrote: >I am a new user and I tried to down load emc2 live and it will not run or > install. Its an .iso image, how did you burn it to the cd? If you look at the cd with a dir command, do you see a whle bunch of files, or just the file by the same name as

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 live download

2009-07-18 Thread Andy Pugh
2009/7/19 Rondal Nannie : > > The cd that I have was made by somebody else but it did have several files > in it. I must be doing something wrong Are you trying to run it, or boot from it? Make sure that CD-ROM is before HD in the boot order of the BIOS, insert the Live-CD and restart. -- atp

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 live download

2009-07-18 Thread Rondal Nannie
John  I went to the site and tried to down load right from the site after I couldnt get it done with the cd. I tried both, the image and then the down load and install.  The cd that I have was made by somebody else but it did have several files in it. I must be doing something wrong .Thanks Ron

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 live download

2009-07-18 Thread Rondal Nannie
Gene  I went to the site and tried to down load right from the site after I couldnt get it done with the cd. I tried both, the image and then the down load and install.  The cd that I have was made by somebody else but it did have several files in it. I must be doing something wrong .Thanks Ron

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 live download

2009-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 July 2009, Rondal Nannie wrote: >Gene I went to the site and tried to down load right from the site after I > couldnt get it done with the cd. I tried both, the image and then the down > load and install. The cd that I have was made by somebody else but it did > have several files