Re: [Emc-users] Strange Sound from Motors when Home Latched

2012-03-14 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I had a problem similar to this, including intermittent faulting, because I didn't have HOME_FINAL_VEL set. It was moving from the index position, to 0 too fast. I can't remember if it was because I hadn't set the maximums yet, or if it was the bug in joint mode, where an axis can exceed its

Re: [Emc-users] Q re lathe vs axis

2012-03-14 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 03:07:04 AM Jon Elson did opine: gene heskett wrote: [gene@coyote cmds]$ ssh -Y lathe Warning: Permanently added 'lathe,192.168.71.5' (RSA) to the list of known hosts. gene@lathe's password: X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0 Did you try ssh -X?

Re: [Emc-users] Q re lathe vs axis

2012-03-14 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
2 identical machines, installed from the same cd, one works, one does not. The one that works uses display:10, the newer one that doesn't, tries to use display:0. display:10 is normally what I see when I ssh to a remote box. Display:0 is the local machine's monitor/video card. From

Re: [Emc-users] Compiling Gotcha

2012-03-14 Thread Mark Wendt
On 03/14/2012 02:01 AM, gene heskett wrote: On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 01:58:58 AM Kirk Wallace did opine: In case anyone might want to know. I've been on IRC lately with AVR software problems. I wanted to get an RTS signal feature activated. The feature gets turned on by #ifdef's in

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2012-03-14 Thread charles green
what do you suppose the laser wattage is? --- On Tue, 3/13/12, dave dengv...@charter.net wrote: From: dave dengv...@charter.net Subject: [Emc-users] (no subject) To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 11:38 AM This was sent to me

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2012-03-14 Thread Anders Wallin
Renishaw website seems to indicate between 100 and 400 W. The description ytterbium fibre laser would suggest a wavelength around 1064nm (not the CO2 10um usually used for laser-cutters) On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:19 PM, charles green xxzzb...@yahoo.com wrote: what do you suppose the laser

Re: [Emc-users] Q re lathe vs axis

2012-03-14 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 10:22:45 AM Frank Tkalcevic did opine: 2 identical machines, installed from the same cd, one works, one does not. The one that works uses display:10, the newer one that doesn't, tries to use display:0. display:10 is normally what I see when I ssh to a remote

Re: [Emc-users] Q re lathe vs axis

2012-03-14 Thread Mark Wendt
On 03/14/2012 11:09 AM, gene heskett wrote: On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:07:29 AM Mark Wendt did opine: On 03/14/2012 05:19 AM, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: 2 identical machines, installed from the same cd, one works, one does not. The one that works uses display:10, the newer one

Re: [Emc-users] Q re lathe vs axis

2012-03-14 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:33:06 AM Mark Wendt did opine: On 03/14/2012 11:09 AM, gene heskett wrote: On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:07:29 AM Mark Wendt did opine: On 03/14/2012 05:19 AM, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: 2 identical machines, installed from the same cd, one works, one does

Re: [Emc-users] Compiling Gotcha

2012-03-14 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:11 -0400, Mark Wendt wrote: ... snip I tried that 2 or 3 times, ate my lunch every time. Deletes too much. Cheers, Gene I forgot one thing - 'make distclean, ./configure; make'. The distclean usually deletes the Makefile created by './configure'. Mark

Re: [Emc-users] Q re lathe vs axis

2012-03-14 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 3/14/2012 11:04 AM, gene heskett wrote: The ipv6 address is what an ifconfig spits out for this machine. Its there but I have no clue if it works. The 'shop' box doesn't have ipv6 disabled, and it shows inet6 addr: fe80::3a60:77ff:fe4e:381b/64 Scope:Link in the ifconfig output. A ping6

Re: [Emc-users] Compiling Gotcha

2012-03-14 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 3/14/2012 11:11 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On 03/14/2012 11:05 AM, gene heskett wrote: On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:04:37 AM Mark Wendt did opine: On 03/14/2012 02:01 AM, gene heskett wrote: On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 01:58:58 AM Kirk Wallace did opine: ... One of the reasons I am

[Emc-users] OT: on the universal connectedness of not-so smart devices

2012-03-14 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: A sideshoot of the discussion of Gene's IPv6 issues was the commenting on smart appliances. That was fun but a little off the mark since the dumbness of smart appliances isn't caused by universal connectivity, it's caused by programmers. Still, the Internet has the same

Re: [Emc-users] Q re lathe vs axis

2012-03-14 Thread Ed Nisley
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:04 -0400, gene heskett wrote: And that man page is as obtuse as any I've seen. Rather than hammering that out by hand, use the remote desktop built right into Ubuntu? On the Ubuntu machine attached to the mill, clicky: System - Preferences - Remote Desktop Then

[Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.5.0 release date

2012-03-14 Thread Chris Radek
I'm planning to make the release on or around March 31. If you know of any reason not to do this, please say so now! Chris -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of

Re: [Emc-users] Q re lathe vs axis

2012-03-14 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 06:17:51 PM Mark Wendt did opine: On 03/14/2012 11:36 AM, gene heskett wrote: On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:33:06 AM Mark Wendt did opine: On 03/14/2012 11:09 AM, gene heskett wrote: On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:07:29 AM Mark Wendt did opine: On

Re: [Emc-users] Q re lathe vs axis

2012-03-14 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 07:27:40 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: On 3/14/2012 11:04 AM, gene heskett wrote: The ipv6 address is what an ifconfig spits out for this machine. Its there but I have no clue if it works. The 'shop' box doesn't have ipv6 disabled, and it shows inet6 addr:

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.5.0 release date

2012-03-14 Thread Jon Elson
Chris Radek wrote: I'm planning to make the release on or around March 31. If you know of any reason not to do this, please say so now! WOW, at LAST! Great news! I wish I could make some of my docs better, and may take another look at them, but I'm just too close to it to ever be able

Re: [Emc-users] Q re lathe vs axis

2012-03-14 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 10:09:09 PM Ed Nisley did opine: On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:04 -0400, gene heskett wrote: And that man page is as obtuse as any I've seen. Rather than hammering that out by hand, use the remote desktop built right into Ubuntu? On the Ubuntu machine attached to

Re: [Emc-users] Voltage to frequency for analog input

2012-03-14 Thread Scott Hasse
If you just want to go from analog to LinuxCNC, have you considered using an ATmega to parallel port interface? The AVR can accept pure analog or some pulsed variety, such frequency counting , PWM or PDM. A dual parallel port PCI card is ~$15, Arduino Pro Mini for $20:

Re: [Emc-users] Q re lathe vs axis

2012-03-14 Thread Jon Elson
gene heskett wrote: I just checked, LinuxCNC will run over an ssh -X connection, but the graphics are MASSIVELY slow. Once the Axis GUI is up, it isn't too bad, but it takes 30 seconds or more for it to come up the first time. The repaint of the 3-D preview takes a couple seconds. Now,

Re: [Emc-users] Q re lathe vs axis

2012-03-14 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:50:05 PM Jon Elson did opine: gene heskett wrote: I just checked, LinuxCNC will run over an ssh -X connection, but the graphics are MASSIVELY slow. Once the Axis GUI is up, it isn't too bad, but it takes 30 seconds or more for it to come up the first time.

Re: [Emc-users] Voltage to frequency for analog input

2012-03-14 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 21:56 -0500, Scott Hasse wrote: ... snip Or are you suggesting not doing analog-to-frequency but rather something like 8 digital inputs and using the weighted_sum component? ... snip Yes, analog to Arduino to parallel port. I didn't realize you already had an Arduino in