Re: [Emc-users] driver for a DC motor for a BS-1.

2020-10-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 14 October 2020 17:20:46 Chris Albertson wrote: > A good place to look for DC motor drivers is Polulu. Here is what > they have. I bet you can use one from the "mid-power" section. > https://www.pololu.com/category/11/brushed-dc-motor-drivers > > All of these take PWM and a few

Re: [Emc-users] driver for a DC motor for a BS-1.

2020-10-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 14 October 2020 17:48:06 Andy Pugh wrote: > > On 14 Oct 2020, at 21:42, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > so what > > do we have in our linuxcnc toolbox that looks like a bi-dir pwn > > controlled twin H bridge to run a 24volt brushed PMDC motor > > Maybe 7i40? But what’s the problem with

Re: [Emc-users] driver for a DC motor for a BS-1.

2020-10-14 Thread Andy Pugh
> On 14 Oct 2020, at 21:42, Gene Heskett wrote: > > so what > do we have in our linuxcnc toolbox that looks like a bi-dir pwn > controlled twin H bridge to run a 24volt brushed PMDC motor Maybe 7i40? But what’s the problem with using the Pico one?

Re: [Emc-users] driver for a DC motor for a BS-1.

2020-10-14 Thread Chris Albertson
A good place to look for DC motor drivers is Polulu. Here is what they have. I bet you can use one from the "mid-power" section. https://www.pololu.com/category/11/brushed-dc-motor-drivers All of these take PWM and a few pins for forward, reverse brake. These modern drivers are so good there

[Emc-users] driver for a DC motor for a BS-1.

2020-10-14 Thread Gene Heskett
After it finally was delivered, testing looks good but now I need a controller, smaller and lower voltage than one of Jons pwm-servo's. This motor supposedly turns 220 rpms no load with 24 volts applied. It has an encoder on the rear which is making a 5.4khz quadrature signal when its running

Re: [Emc-users] troubleshooting 6i25-7i77 mesa cards help please:)

2020-10-14 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 19:29, andrew beck wrote: > thanks for all the help. on to next issus now I guess. better get the > 7i84 working from s serial on 7i77. That should just be a wiring job. The firmware will auto-detect the smart-serial card (that's the smart bit) -- atp "A motorcycle is

Re: [Emc-users] troubleshooting 6i25-7i77 mesa cards help please:)

2020-10-14 Thread andrew beck
hey guys I managed to get the mesa cards working. thanks so much peter and andy for the help between the two of you I managed to piece it together. mesa flash was probably already downloaded but I downloaded it again. then downloaded bit files. found the one peter was talking about and then

Re: [Emc-users] Non-circular boring. Linuxcnc style.

2020-10-14 Thread Sam Sokolik
So - I kinda cheated. I set up the comp so that I could run a gcode program and scan the 'radius' of the shape into an array.. SO it looks like -move to the center of the shape - comp captures center. -move to the profile of the shape - set the comp to scan mode -run the gcode and the comp

[Emc-users] Unsubscribing

2020-10-14 Thread John Dammeyer
Johann, Out of curiosity is it you don't do machining at all anymore? Or some other solution other than LinuxCNC? Thanks John > -Original Message- > From: Johann Beukes [mailto:beukes1...@gmail.com] > Sent: October-14-20 1:28 AM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re:

Re: [Emc-users] troubleshooting 6i25-7i77 mesa cards help please:)

2020-10-14 Thread Phill Carter
> On 14 Oct 2020, at 7:27 pm, Johann Beukes wrote: > > Hi guys > How do I unsubscribe? > I dont use Linuxcnc anymore. Try the lists.sourceforge link at the bottom of the email > > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, 10:25 andy pugh, wrote: > >> On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 08:24, andrew beck >> wrote: >>>

Re: [Emc-users] troubleshooting 6i25-7i77 mesa cards help please:)

2020-10-14 Thread Johann Beukes
Hi guys How do I unsubscribe? I dont use Linuxcnc anymore. On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, 10:25 andy pugh, wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 08:24, andrew beck > wrote: > > > > I get this error Can't find file 5i25_7i77x2.bit > > can I just re download it from somewhere? > > It seems that the LinuxCNC

Re: [Emc-users] troubleshooting 6i25-7i77 mesa cards help please:)

2020-10-14 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 08:24, andrew beck wrote: > > I get this error Can't find file 5i25_7i77x2.bit > can I just re download it from somewhere? It seems that the LinuxCNC hostmot2-firmware package either needs a bit more love, or needs to be abandoned. It is only making a very small subset of

Re: [Emc-users] troubleshooting 6i25-7i77 mesa cards help please:)

2020-10-14 Thread andrew beck
just done a whole lot of research and I need to find the correct bit file I think. any tutorials out there would be great. thanks andrew On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 8:21 PM andrew beck wrote: > I get this error Can't find file 5i25_7i77x2.bit > can I just re download it from somewhere? > > > On

Re: [Emc-users] troubleshooting 6i25-7i77 mesa cards help please:)

2020-10-14 Thread andrew beck
I get this error Can't find file 5i25_7i77x2.bit can I just re download it from somewhere? On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:14 AM andrew beck wrote: > wow is it really that easy? > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:25 AM Peter C. Wallace wrote: > >> On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, andrew beck wrote: >> >> > Date: