Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 January 2012 01:59, Kent A. Reed knbr...@erols.com wrote: Did the flexible riser work for you before it started losing wires? How is it that it started losing wires? Do you mean conductors were breaking internally in the cable? breaking at the connector? . It was fine, though meant that

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I've used this on my lathe and just updated my mill from mach to emc2+5i20... http://www.mini-box.com/Intel-D945GSEJT-Mini-ITX-Motherboard http://www.mini-box.com/M350-universal-mini-itx-enclosure http://www.mini-box.com/I-O-shield-and-riser-card-for-D945GSEJT along with the DIN rail mounts to

[Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread andy pugh
I recently got some Avago AEDR8300K encoder sensors. These have two detectors in a small SMT package for quadrature in one device. http://www.avagotech.com/pages/en/motion_control_encoder_products/incremental_encoders/reflective_encoders/aedr-8300-1k0/My plan was to laser-print a target onto

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/04/2012 07:09 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 4 January 2012 23:48, Eric Kellereekel...@psu.edu wrote: do you have any pictures of it set up? https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/CQTCSBXP42w4qc8viPm_ztMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink (In that picture is the D510MO

Re: [Emc-users] a physicist's approach to the pronunciation of solder

2012-01-05 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/05/2012 04:57 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 January 2012 06:04, Kent A. Reedknbr...@erols.com wrote: Next discussion: why did the l reappear in spelling? It's amazing we manage to communicate at all given the twists and turns our languages have taken. I am

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/05/2012 05:05 AM, andy pugh wrote: I recently got some Avago AEDR8300K encoder sensors. These have two detectors in a small SMT package for quadrature in one device. http://www.avagotech.com/pages/en/motion_control_encoder_products/incremental_encoders/reflective_encoders/aedr-8300-1k0/My

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 January 2012 10:39, Mark Wendt mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil wrote: How do you deal with the enclosure, getting the peripheral card ports so that they poke through to the exterior? Mainly by putting everything in one big box. I think it makes sense to treat the PC board as just another

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/05/2012 06:01 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 January 2012 10:39, Mark Wendtmark.we...@nrl.navy.mil wrote: How do you deal with the enclosure, getting the peripheral card ports so that they poke through to the exterior? Mainly by putting everything in one big box. I think it

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 08:01:43 AM Mark Wendt did opine: On 01/05/2012 05:05 AM, andy pugh wrote: I recently got some Avago AEDR8300K encoder sensors. These have two detectors in a small SMT package for quadrature in one device.

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread Edward Bernard
How do you deal with cooling issues having all that gear in one enclosure? From: andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com To: mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil; Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2012 5:01 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/05/2012 08:39 AM, gene heskett wrote: Love the clamp mod on your cutting head!VBSEG Mark Chuckle. BTDT, but needed something just a hair more substantial for milling mortis and tennon joints with my micromill on steroids:

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 January 2012 13:41, Edward Bernard yankeelena2...@yahoo.com wrote: How do you deal with cooling issues having all that gear in one enclosure? I don't know yet. The actual servo drives will be external (and near the motors) though, so the only heat in there should be from the low-power

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 08:59:41 AM Mark Wendt did opine: On 01/05/2012 08:39 AM, gene heskett wrote: Love the clamp mod on your cutting head!VBSEG Mark Chuckle. BTDT, but needed something just a hair more substantial for milling mortis and tennon joints with my micromill on

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/05/2012 09:06 AM, gene heskett wrote: Well crap. Work for some reason has black-listed your domain. Can't get to your web site from here. Mark G. Sorry Mark, try subbing 204:111:66;235 for the contrived domain name then go offer to re-adjust the IT guys attitude for

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 09:13:51 AM gene heskett did opine: On Thursday, January 05, 2012 08:59:41 AM Mark Wendt did opine: On 01/05/2012 08:39 AM, gene heskett wrote: Love the clamp mod on your cutting head!VBSEG Mark Chuckle. BTDT, but needed something just a hair

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 09:17:08 AM Mark Wendt did opine: On 01/05/2012 09:06 AM, gene heskett wrote: Well crap. Work for some reason has black-listed your domain. Can't get to your web site from here. Mark G. Sorry Mark, try subbing 204:111:66;235 for the

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/05/2012 09:16 AM, gene heskett wrote: G. Sorry Mark, try subbing 204:111:66;235 for the contrived domain name then go offer to re-adjust the IT guys attitude for blocking a dyndns address. That is in fact _this_ machine. And since I'm on a cable modem, there is nothing dynamic

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/05/2012 09:18 AM, gene heskett wrote: On Thursday, January 05, 2012 09:17:08 AM Mark Wendt did opine: On 01/05/2012 09:06 AM, gene heskett wrote: Well crap. Work for some reason has black-listed your domain. Can't get to your web site from here. Mark G.

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread Steve Stallings
Ok, but from the logs, somebody is looking at the whole subpage I was curious who it was. Cheers, Gene Weren't me. I can't even get to it from here. ;-) Mark -- Hi Gene, Mark, Well I got there by

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread Dave
On 1/5/2012 8:45 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 January 2012 13:41, Edward Bernardyankeelena2...@yahoo.com wrote: How do you deal with cooling issues having all that gear in one enclosure? I don't know yet. The actual servo drives will be external (and near the motors) though, so the

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 January 2012 16:07, Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com wrote: The Intel bios has a display that will show you the CPU core temperature so you can get an idea of how efficiently your enclosure is keeping your PC boards cool. I think that there is a HAL module that links in to lmsensors to allow you to

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/5/2012 11:07 AM, Dave wrote: On 1/5/2012 8:45 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 January 2012 13:41, Edward Bernardyankeelena2...@yahoo.com wrote: How do you deal with cooling issues having all that gear in one enclosure? I don't know yet. The actual servo drives will be external (and near

Re: [Emc-users] hal taking machine down

2012-01-05 Thread Les Newell
If you want the ultimate in low writes, install your OS as a 'live' CD image. There are plenty of instructions on doing this with a thumb drive and they apply equally well to an SSD. You can have a separate partition for your data. I ran my network server like that for quite a while. Some

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread Dave
On 1/5/2012 11:29 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/5/2012 11:07 AM, Dave wrote: On 1/5/2012 8:45 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 January 2012 13:41, Edward Bernardyankeelena2...@yahoo.comwrote: How do you deal with cooling issues having all that gear in one enclosure?

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread Dave
On 1/5/2012 11:16 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 January 2012 16:07, Davee...@dc9.tzo.com wrote: The Intel bios has a display that will show you the CPU core temperature so you can get an idea of how efficiently your enclosure is keeping your PC boards cool. I think that there is a

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 12:24:44 PM Steve Stallings did opine: Ok, but from the logs, somebody is looking at the whole subpage I was curious who it was. Cheers, Gene Weren't me. I can't even get to it from here. ;-) Mark

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread Jon Elson
Kent A. Reed wrote: Apart from our natural conservatism, is there any reason y'all with big systems aren't watercooling within a sealed box, piping the heat to an external radiator? Well, it is expensive, and for most systems it is now somewhat old-school and unnecessary! The Atom

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 12:27:01 PM Dave did opine: On 1/5/2012 8:45 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 January 2012 13:41, Edward Bernardyankeelena2...@yahoo.com wrote: How do you deal with cooling issues having all that gear in one enclosure? I don't know yet. The actual servo

Re: [Emc-users] a physicist's approach to the pronunciation of solder

2012-01-05 Thread Peter Blodow
Kent A. Reed schrieb: PS - my grandchildren would say the missing l is just a sign of the season - NoEl. Kent, that's sheds a good light on their intelligence - as soon as you can start playing with your language, you show that you are it's sovereign, not the other way around. Peter

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread John Stewart
Just an FYI, I have an Intel MD525MW motherboard, 4gig ram, and disk. The smallest case my supplier could get had a small fan on the power supply, and a fan for case cooling so I guess I could say that my motherboard is fan-cooled, but that's just life. Had to turn off hyper threading on the

Re: [Emc-users] a physicist's approach to the pronunciation of solder

2012-01-05 Thread Peter Blodow
andy pugh schrieb: I am reading a novel set in the Napoleonic war, and I was curious about the ranks of the soldiers (that's got an L in it), specifically the gap between Lieutenant and Lieutenant Commander. Naturally these are pronounced Lefftenant in British English because, errr,

Re: [Emc-users] ur steppers

2012-01-05 Thread Cathrine Hribar
Hi gene Wanted to ask where you found your steppers? I see that they pull 6 amps, what is the voltage and size? Thanks Bill -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 01:45:41 PM gene heskett did opine: On Thursday, January 05, 2012 12:27:01 PM Dave did opine: On 1/5/2012 8:45 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 January 2012 13:41, Edward Bernardyankeelena2...@yahoo.com wrote: How do you deal with cooling issues having all that

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/5/2012 12:14 PM, Dave wrote: On 1/5/2012 11:29 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/5/2012 11:07 AM, Dave wrote: On 1/5/2012 8:45 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 January 2012 13:41, Edward Bernardyankeelena2...@yahoo.com wrote: How do you deal with cooling issues having all that gear in one

Re: [Emc-users] ur steppers

2012-01-05 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 03:36:36 PM Cathrine Hribar did opine: Hi gene Wanted to ask where you found your steppers? I see that they pull 6 amps, what is the voltage and size? Thanks Bill I bought all those from Jeff at Xylotex, 3 ea of the 262's he had originally, then

Re: [Emc-users] ur steppers

2012-01-05 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 03:59:27 PM Cathrine Hribar did opine: Hi gene Wanted to ask where you found your steppers? I see that they pull 6 amps, what is the voltage and size? I just looked at that pix again, and that says 5.0 Amps, parallel. But that is not the motor on the A

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 04:08:54 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: On 1/5/2012 12:14 PM, Dave wrote: On 1/5/2012 11:29 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/5/2012 11:07 AM, Dave wrote: On 1/5/2012 8:45 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 January 2012 13:41, Edward Bernardyankeelena2...@yahoo.com

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread Peter Blodow
Gene, sorry to say, I can see only commercial ads on the site you specified. In German. Is there more I have to know in order to get your information? Peter Chuckle. BTDT, but needed something just a hair more substantial for milling mortis and tennon joints with my micromill on steroids:

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread Dave
On 1/5/2012 2:18 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/5/2012 12:14 PM, Dave wrote: On 1/5/2012 11:29 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/5/2012 11:07 AM, Dave wrote: On 1/5/2012 8:45 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 January 2012 13:41, Edward Bernardyankeelena2...@yahoo.com

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread Thomas Powderly
andy had the damndest thing with a flexy dual riser http://www.logicsupply.com/products/pci122_dflex my d150m0 ran a dual pci parport fine for months and it same card recognized in the new flexi riser along with a pci 8255 ( sudo lshw ) but emc swore the parport was 'already in use' i strippedit

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 06:57:38 PM Peter Blodow did opine: Gene, sorry to say, I can see only commercial ads on the site you specified. In German. Is there more I have to know in order to get your information? Peter You could try using the IP address in place of the name, but Mark

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-05 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 07:07:03 PM Dave did opine: On 1/5/2012 2:18 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/5/2012 12:14 PM, Dave wrote: On 1/5/2012 11:29 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/5/2012 11:07 AM, Dave wrote: On 1/5/2012 8:45 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 January 2012 13:41, Edward

Re: [Emc-users] ur steppers

2012-01-05 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 08:31:05 PM gene heskett did opine: On Thursday, January 05, 2012 03:36:36 PM Cathrine Hribar did opine: Hi gene Wanted to ask where you found your steppers? I see that they pull 6 amps, what is the voltage and size? Thanks Bill I bought

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-05 Thread Dave Panetta(The Spam Catcher)
Re the Bad links Look at the link in the address bar after you get the error. What I got was http//.. when it should be http://. Just fix it in the address bar and hit enter A long time lurker Dave --

Re: [Emc-users] a physicist's approach to the pronunciation of solder

2012-01-05 Thread dave
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:53:34 -0500 Mark Wendt mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil wrote: On 01/05/2012 04:57 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 January 2012 06:04, Kent A. Reedknbr...@erols.com wrote: Next discussion: why did the l reappear in spelling? It's amazing we manage to