Re: [Emc-users] Spindle Encoder AEDR-8300 Encoder Ring

2018-11-28 Thread David Berndt
Alright, Dragging this back up. A knockoff Omron encoder showed up in the mail, well I assume It's a knockoff at this price. Mounted it, wired it up. But it's on the back of the mill and geared 68/55 to the actual spindle output. So now the question is, what do I setup scaling to? Set scali

Re: [Emc-users] For PCW

2018-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 November 2018 16:43:35 andy pugh wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 21:37, Gene Heskett > wrote: > > I'd imagine, the 7i76 isn't cheap either. But in thinking what I have > > > now, and having a dedicated encoder interface thats not subtracted > > from the 21 inputs I have now, I thi

Re: [Emc-users] For PCW

2018-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 November 2018 12:10:13 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > No need to scope the Step/DIR outputs, the + outputs are active high > and match the FPGA pin polarity, the - outputs are inverted Gigahertz samling Scope is handy, sitting on a mahogany 1x12 above the mill thats too badly warped t

Re: [Emc-users] For PCW

2018-11-28 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 21:37, Gene Heskett wrote: I'd imagine, the 7i76 isn't cheap either. But in thinking what I have > now, and having a dedicated encoder interface thats not subtracted from > the 21 inputs I have now, I think theres enough to tally a tool changer > at some point. I am puzzl

Re: [Emc-users] For PCW

2018-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 November 2018 12:00:57 andy pugh wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 16:53, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The lack of being capable of bidir on its gpio's reduces my inputs > > to a max of 21, 16 in the 7i76 ad 5 on the std bob. Might get > > crowded, we'll see > > You can easily add more,

Re: [Emc-users] For PCW

2018-11-28 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018, Gene Heskett wrote: Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:51:50 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] For PCW On Wednesday 28 November 2018 10:25:40 Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Wed, 28

Re: [Emc-users] For PCW

2018-11-28 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 16:53, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The lack of being capable of bidir on its gpio's reduces my inputs to a > max of 21, 16 in the 7i76 ad 5 on the std bob. Might get crowded, we'll > see You can easily add more, the 7i76 has a board for adding a smart-serial expansion card, s

Re: [Emc-users] For PCW

2018-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 November 2018 10:25:40 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:16:07 -0500 > > From: Gene Heskett > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] For PCW

2018-11-28 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 15:18, Gene Heskett wrote: I take it the ability to change a gpio's direction was lost in the 7i76? > Yes, because the direction of the 5i25 pins is entirely governed by the 7i76 hardware, and the 7i76 hardware also determines whether pins on the terminal blocks there are

Re: [Emc-users] For PCW

2018-11-28 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018, Gene Heskett wrote: Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:16:07 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] For PCW On Wednesday 28 November 2018 06:31:30 andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 201

Re: [Emc-users] For PCW

2018-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 November 2018 06:31:30 andy pugh wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 04:26, Gene Heskett > wrote: > > And that brought cr1 back on, and an attempt to run LCNC now shows two > > > gpio's as serial tx and rx, but doesn't show anything that from my > > understanding, should be there on t

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] [EMC] NML_FILE = emc.nml

2018-11-28 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 10:26, theman whosoldtheworld wrote: > [EMC] NML_FILE = emc.nml > > these row in file.ini is still valid? Some sections of code still look for it: https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/search?l=C%2B%2B&q=NML_FILE No version of the docs (back to 2.2 at least) has ever men

Re: [Emc-users] For PCW

2018-11-28 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 04:26, Gene Heskett wrote: And that brought cr1 back on, and an attempt to run LCNC now shows two > gpio's as serial tx and rx, but doesn't show anything that from my > understanding, should be there on that subcircuit. And should there not > be 2 such on adjacent pins pai

[Emc-users] [EMC] NML_FILE = emc.nml

2018-11-28 Thread theman whosoldtheworld
[EMC] NML_FILE = emc.nml these row in file.ini is still valid? because in html doc there is nothing about, and in my sim config I'm not able to have response from these row emcStatusBuffer = new RCS_STAT_CHANNEL(emcFormat, "emcStatus", "xemc", EMC_NMLFILE); because no EMC_NMLFILE is open a

Re: [Emc-users] For PCW

2018-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 27 November 2018 23:24:39 Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] > I'll go put w2 vack to cable power... > > And that brought cr1 back on, and an attempt to run LCNC now shows two > gpio's as serial tx and rx, but doesn't show anything that from my > understanding, should be there on that subcircuit