Re: [Emc-users] OT: US member doing injection molding?

2014-11-20 Thread Tux Lab
Sven, Too bad, I am ocean hop away in LA. Do you have a BOM for your router build? Are you building the injection molder from scratch or retrofitting an existing one? thanks, John On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: I'm located in the far far West.

Re: [Emc-users] OT: US member doing injection molding?

2014-11-20 Thread a k
search --- thomas register on google. than search plastic injection molding in thomas register. it will bring up Plastics: Injection Molded http://www.thomasnet.com/products/plastics-injection-molded-60310604-1.html (2,705 suppliers) Tooling: Plastic Injection Molding

Re: [Emc-users] OT: US member doing injection molding?

2014-11-20 Thread Sven Wesley
Ha ha, we went OT on the OT. :) The new build is from scratch. Electro driven knee press mechanics, 30-35 ton clamping force but not a very large shot size. Really small floor area is used, the machine is vertical. My real machine can be tilted vertical but that is not to make a smaller foot

Re: [Emc-users] Running Mitsubishi Meldas DC servo motors with LinuxCNC

2014-11-20 Thread robert - Innovative-RC
HI there going from memory here but you need two volages to the drvie so need a power supply thats all, as control does that right now from its power supply then feed the tachos back into the drive, on the M0 they went into the control card, then back out that was all, so was a case of moving

Re: [Emc-users] Running Mitsubishi Meldas DC servo motors with LinuxCNC

2014-11-20 Thread andy pugh
On 20 November 2014 02:16, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: The main concern for me is how to set up the connection to run the drives with LinuxCNC. From what I could read, it seems that if I let everything as it is, and run the drives with the ready signals and the

Re: [Emc-users] Screw Mapping

2014-11-20 Thread Mark Wendt
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:12 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 November 2014 14:04, Mark Wendt wendt.m...@gmail.com wrote: It varies up and down the entire 55 of length of the Z axis, with small islands that vary from the median by the same amount, and with several points along

Re: [Emc-users] Screw Mapping

2014-11-20 Thread Dave Caroline
I did notice this is on a wooden bench, I had a twisted lathe once upon a time in the 1970s, I went to a local machine reconditioning company and one of the first questions from the old guy was is it on wood, he then said its going to move are you sure you want to do thisI realised what he was

Re: [Emc-users] Screw Mapping

2014-11-20 Thread Mark Wendt
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Dave Caroline dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com wrote: I did notice this is on a wooden bench, I had a twisted lathe once upon a time in the 1970s, I went to a local machine reconditioning company and one of the first questions from the old guy was is it on wood, he

Re: [Emc-users] Screw Mapping

2014-11-20 Thread andy pugh
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ovcg0THudgyONfH508BG4_mzOxfuD3Od7SsPfnqxXBg/edit#gid=740055151 Whatcha think? Easy enough to do? Looks like you should get a nice fit with 14 points. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

Re: [Emc-users] i guess i need a new motherboard for new linuxcnc

2014-11-20 Thread kqt4at5v
On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, kqt4a...@gmail.com wrote: Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:52:36 -0600 (CST) From: kqt4a...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [Emc-users] Screw Mapping

2014-11-20 Thread Mark Wendt
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 6:38 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ovcg0THudgyONfH508BG4_mzOxfuD3Od7SsPfnqxXBg/edit#gid=740055151 Whatcha think? Easy enough to do? Looks like you should get a nice fit with 14 points. -- atp If you can't fix

Re: [Emc-users] Screw Mapping

2014-11-20 Thread andy pugh
On 20 November 2014 11:47, Mark Wendt wendt.m...@gmail.com wrote: How would you fit it into 14 points? I seem to come up with quite a few more points than 14. Using 16 I get http://ibin.co/1htLwap6mz37 (Google sheets can't do XY plots properly) -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it.

Re: [Emc-users] Screw Mapping

2014-11-20 Thread Mark Wendt
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:54 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 November 2014 11:47, Mark Wendt wendt.m...@gmail.com wrote: How would you fit it into 14 points? I seem to come up with quite a few more points than 14. Using 16 I get http://ibin.co/1htLwap6mz37 (Google sheets

Re: [Emc-users] Screw Mapping

2014-11-20 Thread andy pugh
On 20 November 2014 13:07, Mark Wendt wendt.m...@gmail.com wrote: Using 16 I get http://ibin.co/1htLwap6mz37 Ah ha! Thanks for that. Appreciate the help Andy! Actually, you can do better than that. Because Lincurve doesn't extrapolate you can drop the (0,0) point and add a (7,0) point to

Re: [Emc-users] Screw Mapping

2014-11-20 Thread Mark Wendt
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:25 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 November 2014 13:07, Mark Wendt wendt.m...@gmail.com wrote: Using 16 I get http://ibin.co/1htLwap6mz37 Ah ha! Thanks for that. Appreciate the help Andy! Actually, you can do better than that. Because Lincurve

Re: [Emc-users] Motor Resolvers

2014-11-20 Thread Marius Liebenberg
On 2014-11-18 20:28, andy pugh wrote: On 18 November 2014 17:33, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: The more I think about it, adding Halls seems to be the way to go. Resolvers are _really_ good transducers. It seems a shame not to use them. I have no boards left. But I can pass

Re: [Emc-users] Screw Mapping

2014-11-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 20 November 2014 06:47:41 Mark Wendt did opine And Gene did reply: On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 6:38 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ovcg0THudgyONfH508BG4_mzOxfuD 3Od7SsPfnqxXBg/edit#gid=740055151 Whatcha think? Easy enough to do?

Re: [Emc-users] i guess i need a new motherboard for new linuxcnc

2014-11-20 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, kqt4a...@gmail.com wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 05:39:17 -0600 (CST) From: kqt4a...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users]

Re: [Emc-users] i guess i need a new motherboard for new linuxcnc

2014-11-20 Thread andy pugh
On 20 November 2014 16:37, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: Thats one of the many J1800,J1900,J2900 motherboards that have displaced the older D525 and D2550,D2800 based motherboards in the low power X86 range I wonder if this one would be any good? It looks like single 12V power,

Re: [Emc-users] Latest Linux Build

2014-11-20 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Rick I just looked at the 7i80 and it looks like the holes are symmetrical so you could mount it any way round I think. On 2014-11-19 14:02, Rick Lair wrote: I would rather use the din rail mounts, but they are orientated 90 degrees off of how I mount the boards, or so it looks like on the

Re: [Emc-users] i guess i need a new motherboard for new linuxcnc

2014-11-20 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, andy pugh wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:50:23 + From: andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] i

Re: [Emc-users] Motor Resolvers

2014-11-20 Thread andy pugh
On 20 November 2014 14:29, Marius Liebenberg mar...@mastercut.co.za wrote: Andy why were you disappointed with the position feedback. Will it be ok on a slow moving bed? Do you think a more powerful MCU will do the trick? It was noisy and dithered a lot. The Arduino has to measure 2 voltages

Re: [Emc-users] Latest Linux Build

2014-11-20 Thread Rick Lair
The 7I80, and 7I49 are symmetrical, they are both 4 x 4, but the 7I70 and 7I71 are not, and those are the more critical ones to have orientated this way. 48 number 16 MTW wires routed to each of these boards would look like crap with the board 90 degrees off. Thanks Rick -- Original

Re: [Emc-users] Motor Resolvers

2014-11-20 Thread Marius Liebenberg
On 2014-11-20 19:25, andy pugh wrote: On 20 November 2014 14:29, Marius Liebenberg mar...@mastercut.co.za wrote: Andy why were you disappointed with the position feedback. Will it be ok on a slow moving bed? Do you think a more powerful MCU will do the trick? It was noisy and dithered a lot.

Re: [Emc-users] Motor Resolvers

2014-11-20 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 11/20/2014 09:25 AM, andy pugh wrote: ... snip Yes, a more powerful MCU would be better, and it so happens that Mesa and Pico sell exactly that all ready to go. Why will nobody believe me when I say that my experiment was rubbish? Because Arduinos are so cute. I seem to recall, to get

Re: [Emc-users] Motor Resolvers

2014-11-20 Thread andy pugh
On 20 November 2014 17:56, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: I seem to recall, to get fast PWM, I had to use Timer1 and not use the Arduino PWM library. I wonder if the resolver decoder might be improved in a similar fashion? I haven't had the time to study Andy's code, but it

[Emc-users] Problem getting latest LinuxCNC RT-preempt version from Buildbot

2014-11-20 Thread John Prentice (FS)
I am trying to get a built copy of the rt preempt system from Master/(aka 2.8 pre?) via the buildbot as described at http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ I have sources.list.d file setup including the line deb http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ wheezy master-rtpreempt The package manager

Re: [Emc-users] Problem getting latest LinuxCNC RT-preempt version from Buildbot

2014-11-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 11/20/2014 12:21 PM, John Prentice (FS) wrote: I am trying to get a built copy of the rt preempt system from Master/(aka 2.8 pre?) via the buildbot as described at http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ Hmm, it works for me here. I can run apt-get update, apt-get install linuxcnc-uspace (it gets

Re: [Emc-users] Running Mitsubishi Meldas DC servo motors with LinuxCNC

2014-11-20 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
2014-11-20 7:22 GMT-03:00 robert - Innovative-RC rob...@innovative-rc.com: HI there going from memory here but you need two volages to the drvie so need a power supply thats all, as control does that right now from its power supply then feed the tachos back into the drive, on the M0 they

Re: [Emc-users] Running Mitsubishi Meldas DC servo motors with LinuxCNC

2014-11-20 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
2014-11-20 7:41 GMT-03:00 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: Indeed, once you find where the analogue voltage has to go and which wire is which on the resolvers it should all be relatively simple. With apologies to jon@pico-systems (who has a system that would work well) I think this sounds like

Re: [Emc-users] Motor Resolvers

2014-11-20 Thread Rene Hopf
On 20 Nov 2014, at 19:14, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 November 2014 17:56, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: I seem to recall, to get fast PWM, I had to use Timer1 and not use the Arduino PWM library. I wonder if the resolver decoder might be improved in a

Re: [Emc-users] Latest Linux Build

2014-11-20 Thread Dave Cole
MTW is really difficult to route. I've been using 18 gauge UL1007 300 volt stranded hook up wire for that. Its a dream to use compared to MTW. Once you use it, you will never use MTW for that again.I order it online. Dave On 11/20/2014 12:47 PM, Rick Lair wrote: The 7I80, and 7I49 are

Re: [Emc-users] Latest Linux Build

2014-11-20 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Ah, I was under the impression that they are all the same size. Yes I agree that would not look very good. I use a multi strand 0.8mm sqr wire with bootlace on every wire. Then it is not that crowded around the connectors. If one could get just the bottom piece of the din rail fitting from