Re: [Emc-users] 7i76 spindle output

2014-12-07 Thread andy pugh
On 7 December 2014 at 02:51, Jeremy Jones sp01jjo...@gmail.com wrote: I had ABS going and then I switched it over to scale like in the integrator manual. I can try and switch it back. I admit that I have never read the integrator manual, so I don't know what it says. However I suspect that it

Re: [Emc-users] 7i76 spindle output

2014-12-07 Thread alex chiosso
Hi Jeremy. Does your VFD have a CW-CCW physical input to reverse the motor rotation ? If yes you should wire it and activate it related to the sign of motion.spindle-speed-out . Or if your VFD has a differential (+/-10Vdc) input you should use the motion.spindle-speed-out (scaled as needed) to

Re: [Emc-users] opencv for shape recognition

2014-12-07 Thread Marius Liebenberg
I love the camera but she mentioned that it is only windows compatible. I only use windows where I have no choice but certainly not on any machine that I build for myself. Some very interesting items on that site. And the software looks impressive. I will check it our for sure. On 2014-12-06

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc simulator on mint 17

2014-12-07 Thread mario ebling
Hi Sebastian, Bellow is the link to my tests. I tried with a fresh installation on my home computer running Mint 17 64 bits. The problem that I can see is a mismatch between tk end Tkinter versions when executing the configure. With this problem I can´t execute make. If you need any more

Re: [Emc-users] 7i76 spindle output

2014-12-07 Thread Jeremy Jones
loadrt scale count=1 addf scale.0 servo-thread setp scale.0.gain 0.002 net spindle-speed-scale motion.spindle-speed-out = scale.0.in net spindle-speed-DAC scale.0.out = your DAC pin name That's whats in the integrator manual. I started out with the abs I copied from a similar machine but then

Re: [Emc-users] 7i76 spindle output

2014-12-07 Thread pc
The VFD I'm using uses three wire control - FWD, REV, RUN/STOP, where the MESA card is designed around FWD/REV and RUN/STOP two wire control, however the VFD can set inputs for active high or low operation so you can set FWD for active high, REV for active low and tie the two together to a

[Emc-users] arc help, again

2014-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; According to the AXIS window title: Sim version of AXIS 2.7.0pre0-616-gcd4180d I have this board end carving routine almost working. I can do a right end of y_top motion arc just fine. But while the backplot looks perfect if I turn off the arc and just do a move from its start

Re: [Emc-users] 7i76 spindle output

2014-12-07 Thread alex chiosso
Hi Jeremy. If your VFD has the Modbus Port on board (rs232 or rs485?) I suggest to you to try the *mb2hal* component (the description and the how to are on the Wiki). I've tested the Modbus protocol using the TCP/IP (ethernet) and seems to work just fine so the serial communication should be fine

Re: [Emc-users] 7i76 spindle output

2014-12-07 Thread Jeremy Jones
Hitahci WJ200-22 I looked into modbus earlier in the week and am going to go that route eventually. Just wanted to get it online now so I can run some other tests and what not. If I remember correctly my VFD does have an ethernet port. I was thinking serial but if the ethernet works just as well

Re: [Emc-users] 7i76 spindle output

2014-12-07 Thread Jeremy Jones
Oh and mine does have support in the newer version for the modbus. Just have to configure everything properly. Going to look into the ethernet side of things. On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Jeremy Jones sp01jjo...@gmail.com wrote: Hitahci WJ200-22 I looked into modbus earlier in the week

Re: [Emc-users] 7i76 spindle output

2014-12-07 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sun, 7 Dec 2014, Jeremy Jones wrote: Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 09:16:53 -0500 From: Jeremy Jones sp01jjo...@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] opencv for shape recognition

2014-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 06 December 2014 13:23:30 Jon Elson did opine And Gene did reply: On 12/05/2014 10:26 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Silly Q then. The D525MW board probably has only one usb interface, and since my mouse as also plugged into it, limiting it to USB1.1 speeds, would I gain video speed by

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Measuring Mitsubishi resolvers

2014-12-07 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
2014-12-04 14:25 GMT-03:00 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: If you connect the winding that is currently the output to one of the excitations instead, then you just need to look at the ratios of the amplitudes between excitation and output with an Oscilloscope. I will try this with the scope in

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Measuring Mitsubishi resolvers

2014-12-07 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
2014-12-05 0:35 GMT-03:00 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com: if you have some way of feeding a known sine wave voltage into one of the coils, you then measure the no-load output of another coil. You turn the resolver until the output reaches a peak. But, with these miniature resolvers, you

[Emc-users] Cameras

2014-12-07 Thread Kirk Wallace
Just a reminder, in my experience, auto focus and exposure can be a problem. Vision software often works by comparing changes in pixels between one frame and the next, or differences in pixels within the same frame. One should look for a camera that doesn't have auto focus or has a manual

Re: [Emc-users] Cameras

2014-12-07 Thread Peter Blodow
Am 07.12.2014 17:21, schrieb Kirk Wallace: /snip Basically speaking, common consumer cameras are generally not very good for machine vision. ...Yeah, but they are cheap - can get high resiolution cameras unter 3 Euros at the bay (with some function not functioning that I don't need) - if

Re: [Emc-users] opencv for shape recognition

2014-12-07 Thread Jon Elson
On 12/07/2014 09:50 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: The lsusb -t (as root) seems to give the needed results: gene@shop:~/linuxcnc/nc_files$ sudo lsusb -t /: Bus 05.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M /: Bus 04.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M |__

Re: [Emc-users] Gear Tooth Sensor wired as encoder to 7I77

2014-12-07 Thread Mark Johnsen
Gregg, Using the Anilam control panel in the way you described is absolutely BRILLIANT! This is why I read this list religiously, some of the threads and ideas are amazing. Thank you. One of the first things I need to do is clear the bikes away from the electrical cabinet door and get on w/

Re: [Emc-users] arc help, again

2014-12-07 Thread John Thornton
Gene, Did you get my reply on arcs? JT On 12/7/2014 8:46 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; According to the AXIS window title: Sim version of AXIS 2.7.0pre0-616-gcd4180d I have this board end carving routine almost working. I can do a right end of y_top motion arc just fine. But while

Re: [Emc-users] arc help, again

2014-12-07 Thread John Thornton
Gene, If you open up Arc Buddy or Arc Generator if you have the latest one and enter some start and end angles and note the I and J for the arc in that quadrant. From 0° to 270° in the CW direction I is -radius and J is 0. From 90° to 0° in the CW direction I is 0 and J is -radius From 180°

Re: [Emc-users] Stops on home - shared limits

2014-12-07 Thread Jeremy Jones
Tried the restart. No change. Here's my ini for my x, y and z axis. Z axis works fine. Can't quite figure this out. Like I said I didn't change anything related to limits yesterday. I was just working on the spindle. Is there anything else, maybe in hal, that would relate to this?

Re: [Emc-users] Stops on home - shared limits

2014-12-07 Thread Jeremy Jones
Is it maybe the step scales are in the negative on x and y? Just noticed that but I'm pretty sure it worked fine like that. That's the only difference I see. On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Jeremy Jones sp01jjo...@gmail.com wrote: Tried the restart. No change. Here's my ini for my x, y and z

Re: [Emc-users] opencv for shape recognition

2014-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 December 2014 12:24:59 Jon Elson did opine And Gene did reply: On 12/07/2014 09:50 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: The lsusb -t (as root) seems to give the needed results: gene@shop:~/linuxcnc/nc_files$ sudo lsusb -t /: Bus 05.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M

[Emc-users] Quick question on Mesa 7i76 Outputs

2014-12-07 Thread Jeremy Jones
I setup some outputs from the 7i76 to some mechanical relays. It won't set them off. Does anyone know if this is common? I see there are versions of my relay that have a smaller switching amperage but they also have a smaller overall rating. Might have to go to SSRs or is there some way to turn up

Re: [Emc-users] Quick question on Mesa 7i76 Outputs

2014-12-07 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sun, 7 Dec 2014, Jeremy Jones wrote: Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 16:50:49 -0500 From: Jeremy Jones sp01jjo...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] Quick question on Mesa 7i76 Outputs

Re: [Emc-users] arc help, again

2014-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 December 2014 13:23:16 John Thornton did opine And Gene did reply: This one came in after your question, so the answer is yes. :) Gene, If you open up Arc Buddy or Arc Generator if you have the latest one and enter some start and end angles and note the I and J for the arc in

Re: [Emc-users] arc help, again

2014-12-07 Thread andy pugh
On 7 December 2014 at 14:46, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: interp_error: Radius to end of arc differs from radius to start: Why not just give up and use R-mode arcs? -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

Re: [Emc-users] Quick question on Mesa 7i76 Outputs

2014-12-07 Thread Jeremy Jones
I'm guessing this relay is bad. Gonna swap it out. On Dec 7, 2014 5:00 PM, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: On Sun, 7 Dec 2014, Jeremy Jones wrote: Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 16:50:49 -0500 From: Jeremy Jones sp01jjo...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)

Re: [Emc-users] Quick question on Mesa 7i76 Outputs

2014-12-07 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sun, 7 Dec 2014, Jeremy Jones wrote: Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 17:22:57 -0500 From: Jeremy Jones sp01jjo...@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] Quick question on Mesa 7i76 Outputs

2014-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 December 2014 16:50:49 Jeremy Jones did opine And Gene did reply: I setup some outputs from the 7i76 to some mechanical relays. It won't set them off. Does anyone know if this is common? I see there are versions of my relay that have a smaller switching amperage but they also have

Re: [Emc-users] Quick question on Mesa 7i76 Outputs

2014-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 December 2014 16:58:42 Peter C. Wallace did opine And Gene did reply: On Sun, 7 Dec 2014, Jeremy Jones wrote: Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 16:50:49 -0500 From: Jeremy Jones sp01jjo...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-users] arc help, again

2014-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 December 2014 17:09:53 Gene Heskett did opine And Gene did reply: On Sunday 07 December 2014 13:23:16 John Thornton did opine And Gene did reply: This one came in after your question, so the answer is yes. :) Gene, If you open up Arc Buddy or Arc Generator if you have

Re: [Emc-users] arc help, again

2014-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 December 2014 17:12:06 andy pugh did opine And Gene did reply: On 7 December 2014 at 14:46, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: interp_error: Radius to end of arc differs from radius to start: Why not just give up and use R-mode arcs? The docs tend to discourage that, so I

Re: [Emc-users] arc help, again

2014-12-07 Thread Jon Elson
On 12/07/2014 06:34 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2014 17:12:06 andy pugh did opine Why not just give up and use R-mode arcs? The docs tend to discourage that, so I hadn't given it a thought but then I am not in the range where its said to be a problem, so I will give it a

Re: [Emc-users] Quick question on Mesa 7i76 Outputs

2014-12-07 Thread Jeremy Jones
Got it working with a friendlier relay. Not sure what's up with that one. Thanks for the info and help. On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2014 16:58:42 Peter C. Wallace did opine And Gene did reply: On Sun, 7 Dec 2014, Jeremy Jones

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc simulator on mint 17

2014-12-07 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 12/07/2014 06:28 AM, mario ebling wrote: Bellow is the link to my tests. I tried with a fresh installation on my home computer running Mint 17 64 bits. The problem that I can see is a mismatch between tk end Tkinter versions when executing the configure. With this problem I can´t

Re: [Emc-users] MTBF

2014-12-07 Thread Dave Cole
On 12/5/2014 6:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 05 December 2014 11:03:36 andy pugh did opine And Gene did reply: On 4 December 2014 at 11:33, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote: I went back out to the cabinets, counted slots and did a bit of multiplication. I was staring at the

Re: [Emc-users] 4 axis simulation

2014-12-07 Thread linden
Hello all, I am trying to set up axis sim for 4 axis to test code for a rotary 4th axis A (around X axis) on a knee mill. I tried taking the 9axis sim and removing the extra axies but as soon as I do when I go to start the sim all I get is the flash screen and if I am lucky the tool chaing