This ads yet another confirmation to my long-held opinion (based on personal
experience) that there's no such thing as a cheap tool. Buy cheap, buy more
than once and so on. Having said that, I've often acquired expensive tools in
sales. I love *real* bargains (not the el-cheapo sort, see
And you certainly won't be using any parallel port=based hardware.
On 12/8/13 at 8:54 PM, bodge...@gmail.com (andy pugh) wrote:
On 12 August 2013 10:46, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote:
Would a Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio) work for an OS X port of LCNC?
I seems unlikely. How much
The limits were rather ad hoc; the Z values were the defaults that LCNC gave
me, from memory. The defaults as loaded initially were all tiny and none of the
sample NGC files would run until I tweaked the INIs a bit. The other two axes
in this file were changed a bit, but I never seemed to get
On 29/7/13 at 9:17 PM, bodge...@gmail.com (andy pugh) wrote:
On 29 July 2013 02:10, Alexander Newman anew...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
3-axis hal file = http://pastebin.com/7TaM60VR
That looks like it should work.
Have you tried swapping connections to be sure that the Y motor and
drive work
On 28/07/2013, at 10:18 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 July 2013 13:01, Alexander Newman anew...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
I've got a four-axis breakout board that I'm using LinuxCNC's
Stepconf setup to drive quite happily - at least in the testing
stages - using the supplied
Thanks Stuart. I'll get onto that tomorrow (Aus time) when I have the box
booted up (the computer is in the control box).
Cheers,
Alex.
On 28/07/2013, at 10:54 PM, Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote:
Posting information such as the .INI and .hal files would allow much deeper
analysis.
Here's the pastebin link to the *public* version of the INI file
(same file, just different permissions) =
3-axis INI file (public) = http://pastebin.com/A5zSCUN3
I also took the opportunity while I was at it to prune my overly
long email name ;).
Cheers,
Alex.
Interesting. I nearly acquired a Delta VFD, but the vendor here in Oz was out
of stock with no indication of when they would have them - so I bought a
Schneider Electric ATV12H075M2 instead. Hopefully the generic driver will work
with this too (Schneider apparently being the crowd that invented
