Re: [Emc-users] Hey Gene! Still looking for a pocket O'scope?

2014-09-19 Thread Mark Wendt
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2014 09:20:37 Erik Christiansen did opine snippage I do still like an oscilloscope to have proper physical knobs. Mousing around to change ranges and modes still feels weird. Erik So do

Re: [Emc-users] Yahoo Mail is tossing about 90% of messages from this list into SPAM.

2014-09-19 Thread Mark Wendt
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote: I use Thunderbird to access Yahoo Mail because the web interface is flat out WRONG. The way it works is like Yahoo put a group to work on studying how proper mail clients operated and told them to make Yahoo Mail do

Re: [Emc-users] Yahoo Mail is tossing about 90% of messages from this list into SPAM.

2014-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 19 September 2014 01:23:57 Gregg Eshelman did opine And Gene did reply: On 9/18/2014 7:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: 4 Megabytes? Four megabytes? I don't come anywhere near saving all the email that goes thru this machine. Some lists are expired and cleaned up daily. But 4 of my

Re: [Emc-users] Hey Gene! Still looking for a pocket O'scope?

2014-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 19 September 2014 05:00:38 Mark Wendt did opine And Gene did reply: On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2014 09:20:37 Erik Christiansen did opine snippage I do still like an oscilloscope to have proper physical

Re: [Emc-users] Hey Gene! Still looking for a pocket O'scope?

2014-09-19 Thread Mark Wendt
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: It's okay to clean those once in a while... ;-) Usually by exercising them. :) Mark --- --- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that

Re: [Emc-users] Hey Gene! Still looking for a pocket O'scope?

2014-09-19 Thread Mark Wendt
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: It's okay to clean those once in a while... ;-) Usually by exercising them. :) Mark --- --- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that

Re: [Emc-users] [on topic] Yahoo Mail is tossing about 90% of messages from this list into SPAM.

2014-09-19 Thread Jeff Epler
sourceforge is aware of the problem, but they have declined to take any measures to resolve it (there are some they could take, by simply upgrading the mailing list software). yahoo is aware of the problem, but caused it deliberately as an antispam measure.

Re: [Emc-users] Hey Gene! Still looking for a pocket O'scope?

2014-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 19 September 2014 08:21:38 Mark Wendt did opine And Gene did reply: On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: It's okay to clean those once in a while... ;-) Usually by exercising them. :) Mark

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.3 Getting Started Manual correction

2014-09-19 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 9/17/14 1:58 PM, Joe Hildreth wrote: Hello, I was reading through the Getting Started V2.6.3-19-g06655d0, 2014-09-16 manual. Section 4.6 Mechanical Information. In the first example calculation, the text list 8 microsteps in the formula, but should read 10 microsteps I hope it is

Re: [Emc-users] Hey Gene! Still looking for a pocket O'scope?

2014-09-19 Thread Mark Wendt
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Friday 19 September 2014 08:21:38 Mark Wendt did opine And Gene did reply: A little DeOxit squirted into the pots once in a while don't hurt. ;-) DeOxit and friends also remove any lubricants. While its a quick

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC Fest - Houston, 10/18 - 10/24

2014-09-19 Thread Jon Elson
On 09/18/2014 09:32 PM, p...@wpnet.us wrote: I'm interested in attending as well, particularly if I can get a hotel that isn't too expensive. I'd be coming from north of Dallas if you are interested in carpooling Jon, I'm the same Pete C. from RCM. I will probably be bringing a load of

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC Fest - Houston, 10/18 - 10/24

2014-09-19 Thread pc
I have a crew cab long bed dually diesel F350 (King Ranch too), hauling stuff isn't an issue :) --Original Mail-- From: Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:37:58 -0500 Subject: Re: [Emc-users]

[Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

2014-09-19 Thread David Armstrong
Guys, iv'e been asked to come up with a coil winder for rc brushless motors has anyone done such a winder , specific to rc brushless ,as these are 3 phases i fear it could get complicated Dave -- Slashdot TV. Video for

Re: [Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

2014-09-19 Thread Dave Caroline
I dont think it is much worse than any other, you just join the groups of coils together differently. Often the coils are wound off the rotor/stator and then mounted and varnished to keep steady. Reverse engineer (unwind) one to see how they did it. Dave Caroline On 19/09/2014, David

Re: [Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

2014-09-19 Thread Ralph Stirling
Quite. I had my manufacturing class work on this very project two years in a row. They made valiant efforts, but it is *very* difficult. You can see some videos of their systems at: http://wallawalla.edu/engr480/videos , look at 2007 and 2008. The most difficult part isn't really the motions

Re: [Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

2014-09-19 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 09/19/2014 09:11 AM, Dave Caroline wrote: I dont think it is much worse than any other, you just join the groups of coils together differently. Often the coils are wound off the rotor/stator and then mounted and varnished to keep steady. Reverse engineer (unwind) one to see how they did

Re: [Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

2014-09-19 Thread Dave Caroline
Thinking of thick wire, I do have some as yet unscanned pictures of (Lucas) starter motor winding machines. Dave Caroline On 19/09/2014, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: On 09/19/2014 09:11 AM, Dave Caroline wrote: I dont think it is much worse than any other, you just join the

Re: [Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

2014-09-19 Thread Dave Caroline
I do have one relevant picture already though, this shows they are wound before placing on the armature and field for tis particular design http://www.collection.archivist.info/archive/Lucas/PS/PA11/ps1636.jpg Dave On 19/09/2014, Dave Caroline dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com wrote: Thinking of

Re: [Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

2014-09-19 Thread pc
The current RC brushless motors have a lot of poles and a lot of turns of thin wire, like 120T. --Original Mail-- From: Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:43:11 -0700 Subject: Re: [Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

Re: [Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

2014-09-19 Thread pc
Picture here: http://gympiemodelflyers.wordpress.com/articles/brushless-motors/ --Original Mail-- From: Dave Caroline dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:53:53 +0100 Subject: Re: [Emc-users] brushless

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC Fest - Houston, 10/18 - 10/24

2014-09-19 Thread Jon Elson
On 09/19/2014 10:40 AM, p...@wpnet.us wrote: I have a crew cab long bed dually diesel F350 (King Ranch too), hauling stuff isn't an issue :) Well, it's just a matter of transferring it one more time. I will bring several test boards, which are pieces of plywood with a bunch of boards and

Re: [Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

2014-09-19 Thread David Armstrong
Thanks Ralph, certianly given me some ideas, and just as i thought not as easy as first thoughts On 19 September 2014 17:59, p...@wpnet.us wrote: Picture here: http://gympiemodelflyers.wordpress.com/articles/brushless-motors/ --Original Mail-- From: Dave Caroline

Re: [Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

2014-09-19 Thread Rene Hopf
winding a gimbal motor with a 4th axis on a 3d printer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCKl3B-guSs cpp program for gcode is available on his website. Rene On 19 Sep 2014, at 19:59, David Armstrong cncbas...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ralph, certianly given me some ideas, and just as i thought

Re: [Emc-users] Hey Gene! Still looking for a pocket O'scope?

2014-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 19 September 2014 11:20:04 Mark Wendt did opine And Gene did reply: On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Friday 19 September 2014 08:21:38 Mark Wendt did opine And Gene did reply: A little DeOxit squirted into the pots once in a while don't

Re: [Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

2014-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 19 September 2014 12:49:00 Dave Caroline did opine And Gene did reply: Thinking of thick wire, I do have some as yet unscanned pictures of (Lucas) starter motor winding machines. Dave Caroline Is Lucas still known as the Prince of Darkness? 50+ years ago, they were well known as

Re: [Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

2014-09-19 Thread Ralph Stirling
Nice video. The difficulty we had with the needle winding method was that the needle won't fit between the teeth of small stators, especially on the last tooth, where you have two full teeth on either side. Also, if you try to pack as much wire on as you can, it becomes very difficult to get the

Re: [Emc-users] Yahoo Mail is tossing about 90% of messages from this list into SPAM.

2014-09-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 9/19/2014 3:10 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote: I use Thunderbird to access Yahoo Mail because the web interface is flat out WRONG. The way it works is like Yahoo put a group to work on studying how proper mail clients

[Emc-users] some small progress

2014-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
Hi have made a wee bit of progress with the spindle controls on the lathe, but lower speed performance is still sorely lacking. Current pid.s settings Pgain 125 Igain .05 FF0 100 FF120 maxoutput is set 1% below the pwmgen scale to keep it from hitting 100% duty cycle. Since this is a

Re: [Emc-users] Yahoo Mail is tossing about 90% of messages from this list into SPAM.

2014-09-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 9/19/2014 6:00 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Chuckle, A nice idea, if that 10k rpm SCA80 scsi drive was actually dependable. We bought some video servers from Apple that had gangs of those drives. They ran nice, for a few weeks. But Apple cannot yet design a box for such AND put adequate

Re: [Emc-users] [on topic] Yahoo Mail is tossing about 90% of messages from this list into SPAM.

2014-09-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 9/19/2014 6:33 AM, Jeff Epler wrote: sourceforge is aware of the problem, but they have declined to take any measures to resolve it (there are some they could take, by simply upgrading the mailing list software). yahoo is aware of the problem, but caused it deliberately as an antispam

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.3 Getting Started Manual correction

2014-09-19 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On September 19, 2014 9:07:32 AM MDT, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: On 9/17/14 1:58 PM, Joe Hildreth wrote: Hello, I was reading through the Getting Started V2.6.3-19-g06655d0, 2014-09-16 manual. Section 4.6 Mechanical Information. In the first example calculation, the text

Re: [Emc-users] New to LinuxCNC and PnCConf and need some help...

2014-09-19 Thread pc
I made a new motor pulley for the lathe to correct the basic 50Hz/60Hz issue. Now at 60.00Hz on the VFD spindle speed actually comes in a hair low, 965rpm which according to my calculation means if I raise the frequency limit on the VFD to 62.18Hz (it is a 60Hz rated motor) that should put it

Re: [Emc-users] some small progress

2014-09-19 Thread Jon Elson
On 09/19/2014 04:22 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Hi have made a wee bit of progress with the spindle controls on the lathe, but lower speed performance is still sorely lacking. Current pid.s settings Pgain 125 Igain .05 FF0 100 FF120 maxoutput is set 1% below the pwmgen scale to keep it

Re: [Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

2014-09-19 Thread Dave Caroline
On 19/09/2014, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Friday 19 September 2014 12:49:00 Dave Caroline did opine And Gene did reply: Thinking of thick wire, I do have some as yet unscanned pictures of (Lucas) starter motor winding machines. Dave Caroline Is Lucas still known as the Prince

Re: [Emc-users] brushless motor coil winder

2014-09-19 Thread Dave Cole
I visited a motor winding machine manufacturer in Indiana Fort Wayne? I've likely done work there. Winding coils and assembling stators is an art. The larger company in Fort Wayne who does that is crazy good at it. A group of very talented people. Dave On 9/19/2014 12:19 PM, Ralph Stirling

Re: [Emc-users] some small progress

2014-09-19 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 19.09.14 17:22, Gene Heskett wrote: Has anyone else had a similar problem with gedit? Its a PIMA when it happens, to have to do all that edit, restart lcnc to get the next error's line number so you can re-edit and fix it till it will actually run again. It can be 20+ minutes to fix it

Re: [Emc-users] some small progress

2014-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 19 September 2014 22:37:16 Jon Elson did opine And Gene did reply: On 09/19/2014 04:22 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Hi have made a wee bit of progress with the spindle controls on the lathe, but lower speed performance is still sorely lacking. Current pid.s settings Pgain 125

Re: [Emc-users] some small progress

2014-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 19 September 2014 23:14:12 Erik Christiansen did opine And Gene did reply: On 19.09.14 17:22, Gene Heskett wrote: Has anyone else had a similar problem with gedit? Its a PIMA when it happens, to have to do all that edit, restart lcnc to get the next error's line number so you can

Re: [Emc-users] some small progress

2014-09-19 Thread Jon Elson
On 09/19/2014 10:58 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: It has been run, for a day a half, dead clean but not exactly recently. If geany ever does it, yup on the memtest86 session, instantly. So far, geany has not had any such hiccups. I use emacs, which I believe is what is actually running behind