Re: [Emc-users] Spindle indexing

2020-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 06 December 2020 00:41:20 John Dammeyer wrote: > I was watching a Clickspring video on the construction of a floating > die holder for a small Sherline lathe. He attached a belt drive to > the spindle and using the Division Master indexed the lathe while > running a spinning cutter for

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle indexing

2020-12-05 Thread marcus . bowman
On 2020-12-06 05:41, John Dammeyer wrote: What I was wondering is if LinuxCNC, with a suitable Servo Motor or high res encoder on the spindle can treat it like a 4th axis on a mill. Some years ago, I came across a chap who had created the InTurn, which was essentially a lathe headstock for th

[Emc-users] Spindle indexing

2020-12-05 Thread John Dammeyer
I was watching a Clickspring video on the construction of a floating die holder for a small Sherline lathe. He attached a belt drive to the spindle and using the Division Master indexed the lathe while running a spinning cutter for grooving the die holder. What I was wondering is if LinuxCNC,

Re: [Emc-users] Servo Amp Documentation?

2020-12-05 Thread Scott Harwell via Emc-users
A wise man once told me, "Every time you break a wire it costs you money and causes problems". He was right the cost of the connector and the cost of the troubleshooting when the connector fails. Scott On Saturday, December 5, 2020, 7:23:10 PM CST, Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] Servo Amp Documentation?

2020-12-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
In the 1990's I fixed so many computer mouse cords. They'd get a broken wire where the cord exited the mouse. Often the problem was caused by the cord being too well restrained so it could only bend right at the exit point so often a bit of plastic carving was done to make sure it didn't bre

Re: [Emc-users] Servo Amp Documentation?

2020-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2020 18:49:24 Karl Schmidt wrote: > On 12/5/20 5:34 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > On 12/05/2020 04:49 PM, Karl Schmidt wrote: > >> Most electrical hardware problems turn out to be connectors. > > > > Yes, I can verify this.  I've just resurrected a vintage-2000 pick > > and plac

Re: [Emc-users] Servo Amp Documentation?

2020-12-05 Thread Karl Schmidt
On 12/5/20 5:34 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 12/05/2020 04:49 PM, Karl Schmidt wrote: Most electrical hardware problems turn out to be connectors. Yes, I can verify this.  I've just resurrected a vintage-2000 pick and place machine.  I had to reseat a whole bunch of connectors, and even reseat

Re: [Emc-users] Servo Amp Documentation?

2020-12-05 Thread Jon Elson
On 12/05/2020 04:49 PM, Karl Schmidt wrote: Most electrical hardware problems turn out to be connectors. Yes, I can verify this. I've just resurrected a vintage-2000 pick and place machine. I had to reseat a whole bunch of connectors, and even reseat many socketed ICs (they used a bunch o

Re: [Emc-users] Servo Amp Documentation?

2020-12-05 Thread Karl Schmidt
Unfortunately the wiring is very simple in this machine. (It's just a small sign router.)  There is a main control board, with a couple of daughter boards (one for coms the other is the main brain) the encoder cables are plugged into the main board, as are the limits, and some other misc IO. Then

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2020 10:54:10 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2020 Sat, 5 Dec 10:35:05 -0500 > > Gene Heskett scripsit: > > On Saturday 05 December 2020 09:18:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 05 December 2020 08:46:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > >

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Anno domini 2020 Sat, 5 Dec 10:35:05 -0500 Gene Heskett scripsit: > On Saturday 05 December 2020 09:18:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 05 December 2020 08:46:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > I just updated my one wintel/buster install, on a D525-MW mobo in an > > >

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2020 09:18:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 05 December 2020 08:46:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I just updated my one wintel/buster install, on a D525-MW mobo in an > > OAK box, which replaced the rt kernel with a new version of > > 4.19.0-rt13 and

Re: [Emc-users] USB - Serial question

2020-12-05 Thread ken.strauss
Bingo! As suggested by John, I tested a trivial program on an Arduino Leonardo (ATmega32u4) that sets/unsets the UDCON bit0 every 20 seconds. PathPilot sees/loses/sees/loses... the USB port every 20 seconds. I need to do more testing but it appears that my problem is solved. Thanks for everyone's

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2020 09:18:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 05 December 2020 08:46:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I just updated my one wintel/buster install, on a D525-MW mobo in an > > OAK box, which replaced the rt kernel with a new version of > > 4.19.0-rt13 and

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2020 08:46:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I just updated my one wintel/buster install, on a D525-MW mobo in an > OAK box, which replaced the rt kernel with a new version of > 4.19.0-rt13 and when synaptic was done, issued a sudo reboot to reboot > to it... > >

[Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I just updated my one wintel/buster install, on a D525-MW mobo in an OAK box, which replaced the rt kernel with a new version of 4.19.0-rt13 and when synaptic was done, issued a sudo reboot to reboot to it... 10 minutes later it is still not pingable. I've not yet had a chance to