Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest 2016 ?

2016-05-02 Thread Marcus Bowman
On 3 May 2016, at 03:23, Thomas Powderly wrote: > Hi Bari, > I cant come, living in Thailand > I hope talks & demos will be documented/videoed. Living in the UK, I too am far away, so videos would be very welcome, and might also be a useful general resource for the wider community. Marcus >

Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest, 2016 ?

2016-05-02 Thread Jon Elson
On 05/02/2016 08:12 PM, Jim Craig wrote: > I would like to come to the workshop and I could possibly present. If we > are coming as a presenter do we register as a student on the webpage? > > I see the Best Western Greenfield Inn is close by. Has anybody stayed > there. Is this a good part of town

Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest 2016 ?

2016-05-02 Thread Thomas Powderly
I got mine! tomp On 05/03/16 10:37, bari wrote: > Tom, > > We were talking about having one in Thailand late fall/winter as long as > there are elephants. > > -Bari > -- Find and fix application performance issues faster

Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest 2016 ?

2016-05-02 Thread bari
Tom, We were talking about having one in Thailand late fall/winter as long as there are elephants. -Bari On 05/02/2016 09:23 PM, Thomas Powderly wrote: > Hi Bari, > I cant come, living in Thailand > I hope talks & demos will be documented/videoed. > tomp tjtr33 > > On 05/03/16 00:27, bari wrote

Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest 2016 ?

2016-05-02 Thread Thomas Powderly
Hi Bari, I cant come, living in Thailand I hope talks & demos will be documented/videoed. tomp tjtr33 On 05/03/16 00:27, bari wrote: > Anyone else interested in having another this year? > > Any ideas where to hold it? Are there any other events this summer with > overlapping interests? > > > > --

Re: [Emc-users] SSR Issues

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Cole
FWIW, this is the authorized Automation Direct distributor in the UK. http://www.lamonde.com/acatalog/Timer_Switches_Timer_Relays.html These are interesting also but I have only used a few of them. So far so good. http://www.lamonde.com/acatalog/WEG-Electric-Miniature-Contactors--3-Pole-.html T

Re: [Emc-users] SSR Issues

2016-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 May 2016 19:17:41 andy pugh wrote: > The PSU on my lathe is something I made myself. On the input side are > two SSRs, one for power on/off and the other switches-out a soft-start > resistor. > There is also s discharge capacitor that is switched in when the main > input SSR is switch

Re: [Emc-users] SSR Issues

2016-05-02 Thread Eric Keller
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 9:05 PM, andy pugh wrote: > I don't think I have a collapsing field. Downstream of the relay is a > rectifier and a big capacitor. I would like to see a good reference on this. I have some homebuilt equipment with SSR's switching power supplies and never had any problem.

Re: [Emc-users] SSR Issues

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Cole
I've had problems with SSRs shorting out in certain applications. Because of that I limit the use of SSRs to simply switching power to a load and that is it. For instance; they are very useful for driving heaters for time proportioned outputs schemes to control heat output. I also use them when s

Re: [Emc-users] SSR Issues

2016-05-02 Thread Jon Elson
On 05/02/2016 06:17 PM, andy pugh wrote: > > Today things went a bit strange, blowing the breaker and then the > discharge resistor. This was with the PSU powered up, but not turned > on. > > It turns out that I have an unanticipated failure mode, if both input > SSRs fail closed-circuit. > > I hav

Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest, 2016 ?

2016-05-02 Thread Jim Craig
I would like to come to the workshop and I could possibly present. If we are coming as a presenter do we register as a student on the webpage? I see the Best Western Greenfield Inn is close by. Has anybody stayed there. Is this a good part of town to stay overnight? I am totally unfamiliar with

Re: [Emc-users] SSR Issues

2016-05-02 Thread andy pugh
On 3 May 2016 at 02:05, andy pugh wrote: > knows a good place to ask. Addendum: Good places would be places where the question gets answered with reasoned arguments, not statements that "that is not to code" (unless backed up with an explanation about what the code is based on). (Sorry, had a ba

Re: [Emc-users] SSR Issues

2016-05-02 Thread andy pugh
On 3 May 2016 at 01:11, Eric Keller wrote: > I can guarantee that an > undergraduate mechanical engineering student isn't even going to > suspect that there is going to be an issue. What I realized is that I > know how to deal with a collapsing field with a DC relay, but not with > an AC circuit.

Re: [Emc-users] Loading SSD

2016-05-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
If you have a Windows box available you can use the free version of AOMEI to copy just about any type of partition. Dunno if it can also resize non-Microsoft partition types, never tried. -- Find and fix application perfo

Re: [Emc-users] SSR Issues

2016-05-02 Thread Eric Keller
I recently ran into a similar problem in a design class I was teaching. As a mechanical engineer, I have to admit that I don't always think these things through, and I can guarantee that an undergraduate mechanical engineering student isn't even going to suspect that there is going to be an issue.

[Emc-users] SSR Issues

2016-05-02 Thread andy pugh
The PSU on my lathe is something I made myself. On the input side are two SSRs, one for power on/off and the other switches-out a soft-start resistor. There is also s discharge capacitor that is switched in when the main input SSR is switched off. Today things went a bit strange, blowing the break

Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest, 2016 ?

2016-05-02 Thread Ron Ginger
I would really like to see more linuxCNC presence at the workshop. So far Jon Elson and Bob Luken have agreed to do a session on LinuxCNC, but I could make a lot more room for Linux sessions. I have several slots on Friday which I want to be 'how I did my system' talks by users. There is room

Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest 2016 ? Continent?

2016-05-02 Thread John Alexander Stewart
Why don't you guys meet up at the CNC Workshop, in Dearborn Michigan? It is at the Tech Shop Detroit, which is a very interesting place (as is the Henry Ford museum, and Greenfield Village, almost adjacent to Tech Shop) The CNC Workshop could still do with some LinuxCNC discussions/seminars, and

Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest 2016 ?

2016-05-02 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Still in Wichita On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 1:24 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > Where are you located at now? > > JT > > On 5/2/2016 1:17 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > > HH > > > > If there is no interest or opportunity somewhere else you are all welcome > > here. > > I am in a sh

Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest 2016 ?

2016-05-02 Thread Stuart Stevenson
I call it Helix Machine 3434 West Harry Wichita, Kansas On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Still in Wichita > > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 1:24 PM, John Thornton wrote: > >> Hi Stuart, >> >> Where are you located at now? >> >> JT >> >> On 5/2/2016 1:17 PM, Stuart Stevenson w

Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest 2016 ?

2016-05-02 Thread John Thornton
Hi Stuart, Where are you located at now? JT On 5/2/2016 1:17 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > HH > > If there is no interest or opportunity somewhere else you are all welcome > here. > I am in a shop of my own now. It may not be as interesting. > I am no longer associated with MPM in Wichit

Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest 2016 ?

2016-05-02 Thread Stuart Stevenson
HH If there is no interest or opportunity somewhere else you are all welcome here. I am in a shop of my own now. It may not be as interesting. I am no longer associated with MPM in Wichita, Kansas nor EMI in Eminence, Missouri. I think sometime in the next few weeks or sometime early fall

Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest 2016 ? Continent?

2016-05-02 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
Which continent? On Mon, 2 May 2016 11:27:28 -0500 bari wrote: > Anyone else interested in having another this year? > > Any ideas where to hold it? Are there any other events this summer with > overlapping interests? > > > > -

Re: [Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest 2016 ?

2016-05-02 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 05/02/2016 10:27 AM, bari wrote: > Anyone else interested in having another this year? I'd like that very much. > Any ideas where to hold it? Are there any other events this summer with > overlapping interests? There's "The CNC Workshop 2016", June 8-16 in Detroit: http://www.thecncworkshop

[Emc-users] Any Interest or Ideas for a Linuxcnc Fest 2016 ?

2016-05-02 Thread bari
Anyone else interested in having another this year? Any ideas where to hold it? Are there any other events this summer with overlapping interests? -- Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications

Re: [Emc-users] Install issues

2016-05-02 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 05/02/2016 06:03 AM, Erik Friesen wrote: > Perhaps there needs to be an easy to find migration page. Here is what it > was.. The "Updating LinuxCNC" page I linked you to has the content you're looking for, that's where we put all the upgrade/migration information. I agree it can be harder th

Re: [Emc-users] Loading SSD

2016-05-02 Thread alex chiosso
I use Clonezilla too. But Clonezilla check if the data stored dimension on the source disk is lower than the destination capacity disk. I never pay attention about the disk size. I cloned a 320GB disk on a 120GB ssd without any configuration modification. Of course you can verify the conformity si

Re: [Emc-users] Loading SSD

2016-05-02 Thread andy pugh
On 2 May 2016 at 12:58, Rick Lair wrote: > , what is the > best way to create a new system on a blank SSD using a device like this? What I would do is take a known-good SSD and use that to create a disk image file on the HD of the PC that the adaptor is connected to. You can then copy that image

Re: [Emc-users] Loading SSD

2016-05-02 Thread John Thornton
I use clonezilla to clone drives. The only caveat is either both drives have to be the same size or you have to use the advanced option and tell it to ignore the size of the target drive. JT On 5/2/2016 6:58 AM, Rick Lair wrote: > Good Morning All, > > I recently purchased one of these, > http:

Re: [Emc-users] Install issues

2016-05-02 Thread Erik Friesen
Perhaps there needs to be an easy to find migration page. Here is what it was.. (Hardware = 5i25 and 7i76) loadrt probe_parport isn't necessary, and won't load anyway, for whatever reason watchdog petting isn't needed anymore per google search. Also, it is found in ~/linuxcnc, which isn't crea

[Emc-users] Loading SSD

2016-05-02 Thread Rick Lair
Good Morning All, I recently purchased one of these, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817707380 in order to build new systems for the machines, ( to avoid having another PC half torn down on my table to quickly insert and remove the hard drives) and work with other HDD and SSD

Re: [Emc-users] Install issues

2016-05-02 Thread andy pugh
On 2 May 2016 at 03:12, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Does anyone want to try to salvage any of that wiki page before i remove it? Is there anything there that is still true? I didn't see anything... -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial