Re: [Emc-users] spindle drive

2012-07-11 Thread Gabriel Willen
I would think most industrial vfd's would work in conjunction with a mesa card that has +- 10V. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:01 PM, wrote: > hi > is there proven spindle drive for fanuc spindle motor? > machine is working good but in case of problem i think it will be > better replace whole old fan

Re: [Emc-users] spindle drive

2012-07-11 Thread Gabriel Willen
. The most common problem are the capacities on the power stage board. It's actually an easy fix if your handy with a soldering gun. Just assuming you have a machine with a broken VFD. Gabe On Jul 11, 2012 6:42 AM, "andy pugh" wrote: > On 11 July 2012 12:22, Gabriel Willen

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread Gabriel Willen
Hey Viesturs, I have successfully done this twice, its fairly simple. I would be more than happy to help you through it. Including a homing process. I would suggest only using glade for the User Interface, not to handle any time based commands. Found this out very quickly. Its really easy to

[Emc-users] IMTS

2012-08-28 Thread Gabriel Willen
Hey everyone, its been a while since i have been on the IRC or checked my email for that matter. I was wondering if anyone will be attending IMTS in two weeks? Gabe -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event

Re: [Emc-users] stepper drives

2012-08-29 Thread Gabriel Willen
There are a few 150v volt drives out there or drives that run on 110v. Leadshine, motionking, are two I come up with off the top of my head. I would be leery though for those I have seen, seem to be drives with switch mode power supply built in and are rather bulky. Make sure that the output vol

Re: [Emc-users] stepper drives

2012-08-30 Thread Gabriel Willen
Looks good, but for that price might as well buy a 7i39 and go with servos. On Aug 29, 2012 4:47 PM, "andy pugh" wrote: > On 29 August 2012 18:55, jeremy youngs wrote: > > Probably meant for elson or wallace but here it is anybody know where > > to source reasnobly priced drives that will go to

[Emc-users] LinuxCNC Sprinkler System

2012-09-01 Thread Gabriel Willen
I thought you all would get a kick out of this, but i designed my sprinkler system controller using Gladevcp & a few custom hal components. I doubt this was in mind when EMC2 was being made but i figured hey what the heck. I have 9 zones. I bought 9 < http://www.vegetronix.com/Products/Soil-Mois

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC Sprinkler System

2012-09-02 Thread Gabriel Willen
Gabe On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 02 September 2012 08:47:42 Mark Wendt did opine: > > > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Gabriel Willen > wrote: > > > I thought you all would get a kick out of this, but i designed my > >

[Emc-users] Hal Configurator Screenshots

2012-09-04 Thread Gabriel Willen
Well I made pretty good progress on this program this weekend. Essentially its one of many parts i'm making to make LinuxCNC setup a more user friendly experience. The Mach3 user's won't have anything to say about setup when im finished. I plan to build a LinuxCNC Main gui with seperate applica

Re: [Emc-users] Hal Configurator Screenshots

2012-09-04 Thread Gabriel Willen
start something new. Gabe On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:23 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 4 September 2012 14:51, Gabriel Willen wrote: > > > > < > > > https://plus.google.com/photos/108420335892310746315/albums/5784211124086428513 > >> > > This seems ambitious, bu

Re: [Emc-users] Hal Configurator Screenshots

2012-09-04 Thread Gabriel Willen
hat's a whole seperate topic. Gabe On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:44 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 4 September 2012 16:24, Gabriel Willen wrote: > > As long as it challenges me then i will stick with it > > Well, this is a challenge. > How are you interrogating the components

Re: [Emc-users] Book Recommendation

2012-09-08 Thread Gabriel Willen
Well i ruined it, I looked it up immediately and read the wiki and it spoiled the ending... there was no warning. Guess i won't be buing it. By the way haven't seen you on the IRC you still out of the country? Gabe On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 4:22 AM, andy pugh wrote: > Rather off-topic, but I th

[Emc-users] Live Cd

2012-10-15 Thread Gabriel Willen
So i did some remastering to the live cd of linuxcnc 2.5, also made a lite version using Xfce4, this version has only the bare minimum to run LCNC.. I added the Linuxcnc tux logo to the installer, I also modified the plymouth splash to use the Tux LinuxCNC logo on boot. For a live .iso only, i di

Re: [Emc-users] Live Cd

2012-10-15 Thread Gabriel Willen
ash cards instead without difficulty. > > I think I would have a hard time finding CF cards smaller than 4 gigs now. > > I was at Walmart recently and they were clearancing Sony 4 gig USB stick > drives for $2.00 each! > BTW, the Sony stick drives I got for $2 are really fast! > &

Re: [Emc-users] New Member - Hi

2012-10-16 Thread Gabriel Willen
Welcome, you will find plenty of support from this group! Gabe On Oct 16, 2012 7:26 AM, "John Thornton" wrote: > Mark, > > Welcome to the fun. > > Also check out the resources in the forum and the wiki site. > > John > > On 10/16/2012 6:57 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I jus

Re: [Emc-users] DMM Tech Servos

2012-12-19 Thread Gabriel Willen
I have successfully used Dmm tech servos with linuxcnc, but it was with the older drive before the dyn3, I can vouch for the motor's though, they are very well built, quite and durable. I actually spoke with the lead engineer at IMTS this year. I made it a point to go there. Don't be fooled by th

Re: [Emc-users] PyVCP puzzle

2012-12-23 Thread Gabriel Willen
Should be relatively easy using pycairo for the graphics. You can use gtk drawing area and Cairo.create to make the widget. On Dec 23, 2012 7:21 PM, "Gene Heskett" wrote: > Greetings; > > Never having played with very much xml, I am wondering how it might be > possible to make a round tachometer

Re: [Emc-users] Seasons Greetings

2012-12-25 Thread Gabriel Willen
Merry Christmas everyone hope everyone is healthy, and has a wonderful new year Gabe On Dec 25, 2012 8:17 AM, "Gene Heskett" wrote: > On Tuesday 25 December 2012 09:11:56 Jim Wilkin did opine: > > > Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year > > from Canada. > > James wilkin > > Either my memory

[Emc-users] Pysignal component

2013-03-06 Thread Gabriel Willen
I decided to write a rt component that queues Linux signal SIGRTMIN on pin state changes. I finished it up last night and have been running it through some test today and it seems to be working incredibly well. The advantage of this is to remove the polling overhead on the python gui. Now the gu

[Emc-users] DIsable linuxcnc from minimizing or being closed

2012-04-04 Thread Gabriel Willen
I was wondering if i could lock linux cnc. I want to prevent the operator from being able to minimize or accidently close emc2. Thanks in advanced Gabe -- Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monit

Re: [Emc-users] DIsable linuxcnc from minimizing or being closed (Dewey Garrett)

2012-04-07 Thread Gabriel Willen
Thank you! I love the support that surrounds LinuxCnc. Gabe W -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE!

[Emc-users] 3 phase bldc motor question

2012-04-13 Thread Gabriel Willen
Sorry for any misspelled words, I'm writing this from my phone with limited time. I understand just about everything when it comes to 3 phase motors with the exception of one thing. Voltage, I can't figure out why servo motors run on such high voltages. I have searched and searched for an explen

Re: [Emc-users] 3 phase bldc question

2012-04-13 Thread Gabriel Willen
I understand the formula for power, and i realize its all that matters. Watts are watts no matter what the volts or amps are. I also know that a bldc motor and asynchronous motor are very similar. That's why I'm curious how the cogging In a bldc motor don't affect it being a servo. If I could bu

Re: [Emc-users] 3 phase bldc question

2012-04-13 Thread Gabriel Willen
Finally some educated answers, this mailing list is really coming through! I have a 660W 48v 15A Bldc motor, using this drive http://www.sei-automation.com/products/Brushless/BLDC-5015A.html laying around. I started thinking about trying to set it up as a servo, see how it would do, Get a 1000cpr

[Emc-users] Wemotec Wt-SC25

2012-04-14 Thread Gabriel Willen
http://www.wemotec.net/products/controller-modules/WT-SC25-Servocontroller.html does anyone know anything about this? Thanks Gabe -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell Yo

[Emc-users] Bldc Drive

2012-04-17 Thread Gabriel Willen
What do you guys think about using one of these to drive a BLDC or AC Servo motor? http://www.fairchildsemi.com/products/discrete/spm/index.html... seems like they have a good selection. Gabe -- Better than sec? Nothing is

[Emc-users] Bldc_Hal

2012-04-26 Thread Gabriel Willen
I don't know if I'm miss understanding the bldc Hal component. I have a 3 phase half bridge driver ic that uses cmos, or ttl as inputs. So I configured bldc with q for encoder, h for halls, and B for 6 bit inverting, and 6 for output signal. Is it supposed to generated sinus pwm signals on the o

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc_Hal

2012-04-26 Thread Gabriel Willen
Excellent that is what I figured. Thanks Gabe On Apr 26, 2012 8:02 AM, "Viesturs Lācis" wrote: > 2012/4/26 Gabriel Willen : > > > > Is it supposed to generated sinus pwm signals on > > the outputs or is this a middle man for another price of hardware that > &g

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc_Hal

2012-04-26 Thread Gabriel Willen
12 8:35 AM, "andy pugh" wrote: > On 26 April 2012 13:01, Gabriel Willen wrote: > > > Is it supposed to generated sinus pwm signals on > > the outputs or is this a middle man for another price of hardware that > > would generate the pwm. > > No, bldc doesn

[Emc-users] Thank you.

2012-04-26 Thread Gabriel Willen
!!WARNING RAMBLING BELLOW!! I know you haven't heard much from me, but I have been using linuxcnc for two years now, both industrial and hobby use. I have been taking for granted those who have made and still make this a great free resource with excellent support. So this is my formal thank

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc_Hal

2012-04-26 Thread Gabriel Willen
Andy, Yes i have seen that video, i actually commented on it asking for the sketch. I haven't heard from him though so i assume he either doesn't want to share it or hasn't checked the comments yet. Gabe On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:48 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 26 April 2

Re: [Emc-users] Bldc_Hal

2012-04-26 Thread Gabriel Willen
ndy, > > > > Yes i have seen that video, i actually commented on it asking for the > > sketch. I haven't heard from him though so i assume he either doesn't > want > > to share it or hasn't checked the comments yet. > > > > Gabe > >

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-17 Thread Gabriel Willen
I used a small stepper motor hooked to an arduino for a jog wheel. Being that steppers are 200 teeth it makes it easy to feel each rotation to the next tooth. I can dig up the program if your interesred. Gabe On Jun 15, 2013 5:50 PM, "andy pugh" wrote: > On 15 June 2013 19:47, Charles Steinkueh