Re: [Emc-users] Using washing machine motor

2014-12-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 19 December 2014 00:22:30 richsh...@comcast.net did opine And Gene did reply: Our Sears washing machine got replaced and I got the motor. Says 820W 3 phase, 195V, 320 hz, 17,000 rpm. Anyone messed with one of these with a vfd or a vector drive? It's tiny, seems to be well built, shame

Re: [Emc-users] Modbus

2014-12-19 Thread 77dab
Yes, I know, I already made a Java software to control independently 8 of those VFD via modbus, and it works. They can run up to 38600baud. what timing do you think i can expect from a sistem like that in LinuxCNC? something like 10 VFD messages per second? or better? On 18/12/2014 14:57, Todd

Re: [Emc-users] G edit and velocity

2014-12-19 Thread Mark Wendt
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:43 PM, dave dengv...@charter.net wrote: A friend of mine comments that vi is vile! However it is on every unix system. I occasionally use vim but that makes it easier by adapting to the dos keyboard, eg. arrows, backspace, etc. Dave Nah, vile is like vi... or

Re: [Emc-users] G edit and velocity

2014-12-19 Thread Mark Wendt
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:59 PM, John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com wrote: What's wrong with ed? JT Nuthin'. ;-) Who's Ed? Mark -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate!

Re: [Emc-users] G edit and velocity

2014-12-19 Thread Mark Wendt
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2014 12:59:12 John Thornton did opine And Gene did reply: What's wrong with ed? JT A printable cheat sheet on how to run it? And I am not, and never will be enamored with a line editor that

Re: [Emc-users] G edit and velocity

2014-12-19 Thread Mark Wendt
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote: I used to use EDLIN and COPY CON to write autoexec.bat and config.sys files, and DEBUG to low level format MFM hard drives. ;) And nostagia hits, launch a cmd prompt and enter edlin. Hmm an error message that

Re: [Emc-users] Modbus

2014-12-19 Thread alex chiosso
Hi. I suggest to you to try the *mb2hal* component to do this job . I've tested it on TCP/IP and it works just fine. It is not so well documented as it should be (I mean some clear examples should give an opportunity of a wide usage of this well packed component. *THANKS to Viktor Rocco the Author

Re: [Emc-users] touch off doesn't shift loaded paths

2014-12-19 Thread faxel
I start the sim/axis/axis config, take the machine out of estop and turn it on, and home all the axes. Then i jog Z up or down to someplace, hit the End key (or click the Touch Off button) to bring up the Touch-off dialog, type in 0, and click Ok. The backplot immediately jumps so the tool

Re: [Emc-users] G edit and velocity

2014-12-19 Thread Peter Blodow
Mark, edlin is a part of the DOS subsystem even in Win7, just as edit still exists there. It needs to be called followed by a file name since there is no load command in edlin. Peter Am 19.12.2014 11:07, schrieb Mark Wendt: On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com

Re: [Emc-users] G edit and velocity

2014-12-19 Thread Mark Wendt
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Peter Blodow p.blo...@dreki.de wrote: Mark, edlin is a part of the DOS subsystem even in Win7, just as edit still exists there. It needs to be called followed by a file name since there is no load command in edlin. Peter Peter, Yes, I know that. I was

Re: [Emc-users] touch off doesn't shift loaded paths

2014-12-19 Thread Claude Zervas
Ah! Yes, I'm using an older version - 2.5.x I have to upgrade... thanks - Claude On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:29 AM, fa...@zoellich.de wrote: I start the sim/axis/axis config, take the machine out of estop and turn it on, and home all the axes. Then i jog Z up or down to someplace, hit the

Re: [Emc-users] G edit and velocity

2014-12-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 19 December 2014 05:04:30 Mark Wendt did opine And Gene did reply: On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2014 12:59:12 John Thornton did opine And Gene did reply: What's wrong with ed? JT A printable cheat

Re: [Emc-users] touch off doesn't shift loaded paths

2014-12-19 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 12/19/2014 07:23 AM, Claude Zervas wrote: Ah! Yes, I'm using an older version - 2.5.x I have to upgrade... Touch-off works in 2.5 as well. This must be some strange issue with your particular configuration. Upgrading probably won't fix it, we'll have to figur out what's wrong with your

Re: [Emc-users] touch off doesn't shift loaded paths

2014-12-19 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 07:51:30AM -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 12/19/2014 07:23 AM, Claude Zervas wrote: Ah! Yes, I'm using an older version - 2.5.x I have to upgrade... Touch-off works in 2.5 as well. This must be some strange issue with your particular configuration.

Re: [Emc-users] touch off doesn't shift loaded paths

2014-12-19 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 12/19/2014 08:17 AM, Chris Radek wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 07:51:30AM -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 12/19/2014 07:23 AM, Claude Zervas wrote: Ah! Yes, I'm using an older version - 2.5.x I have to upgrade... Touch-off works in 2.5 as well. This must be some strange issue with

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 104, Issue 67

2014-12-19 Thread richshoop
RE: using a washing machine motor Tiny is a relative term. About 100mm squarish body, I'm comparing size to NEMA motors. The other motor pic looks very clost to the one I have here. I still have the drive card from the washer here, I'll go and retrieve it. I was figuring on using a 1 1/2hp

Re: [Emc-users] G edit and velocity

2014-12-19 Thread dave
after using EDT stepping down to dos edlin was a real shock. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDT_%28text_editor%29 It is amazing how well muscle memory does after awhile. :-) Dave On 12/19/2014 02:07 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote:

[Emc-users] how to setup 5i25 as parallel card

2014-12-19 Thread kqt4at5v
I have been using using just the motherboard parallel port to drive my 4 axis stepper board. I now want to use a 5i25 to drive the stepper board. Can you point me to a how to doc. -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The

Re: [Emc-users] how to setup 5i25 as parallel card

2014-12-19 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014, kqt4a...@gmail.com wrote: Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:21:17 -0600 (CST) From: kqt4a...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] how to setup 5i25 as parallel card

Re: [Emc-users] G edit and velocity

2014-12-19 Thread Jack Coats
ed was my preferred on CP/M in the day when I didn't have access to wordstar. ed or edline on DOS was OK. On Windows I prefer notepad++ (notepad-plus-plus.org), a free editor that is really simple to use and does proper g-code highlighting. On Unix/Linux I go to vi, yes there is a vi-vs-emacs cult

Re: [Emc-users] Modbus

2014-12-19 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 12/18/2014 03:53 AM, 77dab wrote: Hi all, I have on my hand some mitsubishi VFD with 550w winches. I would like to try to move them using LinuxCNC. the thing is not meant to be Real time, and I've read the modbus module lives in User space and it's not RT. So, my question: Since it isn't

Re: [Emc-users] how to setup 5i25 as parallel card

2014-12-19 Thread kqt4at5v
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014, Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2014, kqt4a...@gmail.com wrote: Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:21:17 -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] Modbus

2014-12-19 Thread Todd Zuercher
For my setup it often takes a second or two for all the drives to respond to the start command and send back the I am starting but not up to speed yet signal to Linuxcnc. I was able to connect the VFDs state signal to a image_u32 in pyvcp, to give a visual of the drives state,

[Emc-users] S96 in simulator

2014-12-19 Thread Andrew
Hello, There's a strange behavior with S96 in lathe simulator, 2.6.5 I enter S96 S60 M03 in MDI and decrease X, spindle RPM changes up to max 2500rpm then it suddenly shows negative value -2500.8. When I use S96 D2000 or D2500 it behaves correct. But D3000 gives the same error at 2500rpm. This

Re: [Emc-users] touch off doesn't shift loaded paths

2014-12-19 Thread Axel Zöllich
A var file that's not writable can cause this. Sometimes people get into this situation or similar ones by running linuxcnc with sudo, which you SHOULD NEVER do. That's quite a good idea. I'm not running linuxcnc as root but as an ordinary user. But the config is stored in another users home.

Re: [Emc-users] touch off doesn't shift loaded paths

2014-12-19 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 12/19/14 1:13 PM, Axel Zöllich wrote: A var file that's not writable can cause this. Sometimes people get into this situation or similar ones by running linuxcnc with sudo, which you SHOULD NEVER do. That's quite a good idea. I'm not running linuxcnc as root but as an ordinary user. But

[Emc-users] Mb2hal?

2014-12-19 Thread Todd Zuercher
Is it possible to make Mb2hal only make reads and writes of the nessisary registers, rather than all the registers used all the time? Just curious. I am using Mb2hal to control 8 VFDs on a gang router, and the slightly awkward way these drives must be addressed causes Mb2hal to have to make a

Re: [Emc-users] Mb2hal?

2014-12-19 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 12/19/14 2:48 PM, Todd Zuercher wrote: Is it possible to make Mb2hal only make reads and writes of the nessisary registers, rather than all the registers used all the time? I don't know mb2hal at all, but looking at mb2hal_HOWTO.ini i see there's a MAX_UPDATE_RATE for each transaction.

Re: [Emc-users] Modbus

2014-12-19 Thread 77dab
Thanks everybody for your answers. Things are clearer now. On 19/12/2014 20:27, Todd Zuercher wrote: For my setup it often takes a second or two for all the drives to respond to the start command and send back the I am starting but not up to speed yet signal to Linuxcnc. I was able to

Re: [Emc-users] how to setup 5i25 as parallel card

2014-12-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 19 December 2014 12:21:17 kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine And Gene did reply: I have been using using just the motherboard parallel port to drive my 4 axis stepper board. I now want to use a 5i25 to drive the stepper board. Can you point me to a how to doc. Short of asking PCW, which

Re: [Emc-users] how to setup 5i25 as parallel card

2014-12-19 Thread kqt4at5v
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 19 December 2014 12:21:17 kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine And Gene did reply: I have been using using just the motherboard parallel port to drive my 4 axis stepper board. I now want to use a 5i25 to drive the stepper board. Can you point me to

Re: [Emc-users] Mb2hal?

2014-12-19 Thread Todd Zuercher
Problem is I don't think I know enough about either C or Python to do it. - Original Message - From: Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 1:57:18 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Mb2hal? On