Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit Gui

2014-01-28 Thread Mark Wendt
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: Well, I made a jog pendant with an MPG encoder, and I'm quite happy with it. I like the fact I can move an exact amount without looking at the screen. When cleaning up a surface or edge, I can move, say, .010 by

Re: [Emc-users] MPG ilowpass vs limit2/3

2014-01-28 Thread andy pugh
On 28 January 2014 02:09, Stephen Dubovsky smdubov...@gmail.com wrote: Any reason to use them over ilowpass? No, ilowpass is specifically for the MPG use-case. The counts inputs for wheel jogging are integer. The output of an MPG is an integer. If the jog speed is set to 1mm per click, then

Re: [Emc-users] Reading high count encoders at high speed.

2014-01-28 Thread andy pugh
On 28 January 2014 00:34, Greg Bentzinger skullwo...@yahoo.com wrote: An idea I had was to do something like that when trying to read high count encoders at higher speeds. Once the velocity has passed a given threshold it is known which direction an axis is moving so at that point is Quad

Re: [Emc-users] Tormach mill, unique design or Chinese inside?

2014-01-28 Thread andy pugh
On 28 January 2014 04:16, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote: Is the Tormach mill a design unique to that company or do they take some off the shelf Chinese mill and wrap it up all fancy with added parts? http://www.tormach.com/our_story.html Seems to state that the parts are made in Asia

Re: [Emc-users] Tormach mill, unique design or Chinese inside?

2014-01-28 Thread Pete Matos
While it is just another Chinese built benchtop mill I think you will find that they designed it from the ground up including the CNC system to their own specs so it is quite different from most of the other benchtop machines available out there. It has a loyal following and some of the pictures I

[Emc-users] Trouble creating custom firmware for 5i23

2014-01-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello! I am trying to create custom firmware for 5i23 card. Machine has 5i23, 7i48 on P2 and 7i37 on P3. In addition to 7i48, I need 3 stepgens and at least 1 encoder on P4 connector. I created vhd file, Andy compiled it and in the end of this message is the error I receive on LinuxCNC startup.

Re: [Emc-users] MPG ilowpass vs limit2/3

2014-01-28 Thread Stephen Dubovsky
Thank guys. I completely missed the integer in/out part. I had sort of figured out it was trying to increase apparent resoution from what Peter and Jon said and now that makes a lot of sense why. We'll give it a try. Though, Im now curious as to how a filter will play along w/ the velocity

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble creating custom firmware for 5i23

2014-01-28 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Viesturs L?cis wrote: Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:58:32 +0200 From: [UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble creating custom firmware for 5i23

2014-01-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2014-01-28 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com A couple problems: 1. You need newer source (V3 muxed encoder) I would fetch source from Mesa So should I just change the version to 03 in vhd file? Or is there something else I need to do? 2. There's no support for mixing encoder types (muxed

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble creating custom firmware for 5i23

2014-01-28 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Viesturs L?cis wrote: Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:38:24 +0200 From: [UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-users] Tormach mill, unique design or Chinese inside?

2014-01-28 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 01/28/2014 03:37 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 28 January 2014 04:16, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote: Is the Tormach mill a design unique to that company or do they take some off the shelf Chinese mill and wrap it up all fancy with added parts? http://www.tormach.com/our_story.html

Re: [Emc-users] MPG ilowpass vs limit2/3

2014-01-28 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/28/2014 05:01 AM, andy pugh wrote: I haven't used it myself, so I am not sure how the on-screen display of mm-per-click and the actual mm-per-click are sorted out. Using the ilowpass, you can actually hear the last few integer steps come out after you stop moving the MPG. The way I

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit Gui

2014-01-28 Thread andy pugh
On 28 January 2014 04:13, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote: A quick Google finds the exact same unit from Adorama (silver) or BH Photo and Video (black) for $38.00. Some extra printing on it isn't worth another $46.00 Ever since I had a quick look targetted ads from Amazon are offering