It'd probably be a whole bunch faster if you got 15 of these
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Universal-Digital-PID-Temperature-Controller-with-SSR-Output-and-2-Alarms-/251847129323
(or similar) 14 for your machine and a spare (or two)
They have alarm outputs so you could wire them all up to take some
We used .001mm scales in our servo system
its "ok" but we are going to use encoders on the next mill we make.
issues with the velocity feedback are the root cause I think, any
backlash at all will make it hunt at full power.
the best option is to use both, use motor encoders for velocity and
lin
searching for "emc2"
gives the right results but there are page titles like
"Adobe Acrobat 9 Problems — Sale -127% price off"
and other spammy spam
Rather than the regular CnC goodness. I've seen others as well for stuff
in the forums.
I asked a few other people to check it and they have seen th
VNC to the desktop
its part of ubuntu by default, just tick the "allow others to control
the desktop" box
use SSH for config editing (nano ftw).
use some form of version control (pushing to the interweb) on their
config files so you can restore stuff.
If you need to be able to handle serious sc
On 06/23/2011 02:31 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> I'm reviving an old band saw that someone donated to our hackspace. It
> looks a bit like this one, but way older and junkier, and without the girl:
>
> http://www.oceanmachinery.com/images/kmt-band-saw.jpg
>
> It has an automatic shut-off switc
On 09/11/10 15:01, Jon Elson wrote:
> On 11/08/2010 11:00 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote:
>
>> I read somewhere that X-Box has an ARM processor? I wonder if EMC2 or
>> RTAI could be made to run on X-Box? Since they are made in the millions,
>> they should be cheap.
>>
>>
> Yes, but we STILL don't
has this been reported to intel?
perhaps they can fix it with their next firmware
On 20/10/10 05:19, Kent A. Reed wrote:
>Gentle persons:
>
> I've been away from home and mostly away from the keyboard as well.
>
> I returned to find the string of recent messages from/to Don Stanley
> regardin
On 29/09/10 00:35, Spiderdab wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> Finally the show has been on air.
> it was for the opening show of world volleyball championship 2010 in italy.
> in TV it couldn't be seen very well.
> these is a video from my point of view of the general rearsal.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/use
On 18/09/10 07:49, Don Stanley wrote:
> Hi All;
> I will have to plead the Shultz Defense.
>
> The Mill processors I am converting to EMC2 are
> Athlon 64 processor 3700+ or better with the following
> slots:
> PCI
> PCI-EX1
> PCI-EX16
> MGP (Mach speed graphics port).
> I am
Works out of the box running sim inside a VMware machine btw.
On 06/09/10 18:54, Alex Joni wrote:
> As most of you probably know, the latest version of Ubuntu has been released
> a couple months ago: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.
> (http://www.canonical.com/news/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-edition)
>
> As it
On 27/08/10 23:28, Wolfgang Koebler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Axis gui shows a 3D view of a .ngc program, as soon as it is opened.
> That's quite nice. Yet another thing that would come in handy would be
> a runtime estimation for the program. Is there something like this ?
> Or would it be hard to impl
On 08/07/10 13:01, dave wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 20:43 -0500, Chris Radek wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:32:50AM +1000, Jake Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> We have converted our mill to CNC and EMC2 and all is fairly well.
>>> http://
On 08/07/10 11:43, Chris Radek wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:32:50AM +1000, Jake Anderson wrote:
>
>> We have converted our mill to CNC and EMC2 and all is fairly well.
>> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?JakeAndRussells
>>
> ...
>
>
We have converted our mill to CNC and EMC2 and all is fairly well.
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?JakeAndRussells
Having a little trouble getting the tuning "just so" however.
I set P and D to get an acceptable step response and all is fairly well.
however when I have the table moving
Jeshua Lacock wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2010, at 8:04 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>
>> Please lose the music Jeshua, its 40+db louder than your voice. I
>> would much
>> rather hear your narrative.
>>
>
>
> I apologize Gene!
>
> I guess my voice needs gain...
>
>
> Best,
>
> Jeshua Lacock
> Found
On 03/09/09 02:10, Jon Elson wrote:
> Rondal Nannie wrote:
>
>> Gene I ran a test and it is running at 380.4MHz. (The Compaq 5185 only
>> supports up to 348MB of Ram) It seems slow. It wanted to update EMC with
>> 406 updates and now that is updated. It probably needs a gravity check off
On 01/09/09 12:43, Rondal Nannie wrote:
>
> Steve
> The computer is a compaq 252 MB ram 82% free , 32 bit file system, 32
> bit virtual memory, disk compression not installed. C drive capacity 2.09
> GB 117 mb free space, D drive 970 MB free space Capacity 1.85 GB.The
> EMC is pa
On 27/07/09 02:32, Chris Reynolds wrote:
> I'm new to the group and I could use some help with a problem that I'm
> having. I just built a new cnc machine and I keep running into a problem that
> I can't figure out. I've been doing some test cuts,
> problem is they always come up short on one end
Richard Acosta wrote:
> That's the kind of answer i have found the most here.
>
> I'm the customer asking for support and i am very dissapointed with your
> support.
>
Thats it right there.
You aren't a customer, you are a peer.
Did you pay for EMC?
Did you pay or offer to pay any of the devs
Andy Pugh wrote:
> 2009/6/28 Jake Anderson :
>
>
>> Other than removing and re-installing the different versions of emc it
>> shouldn't require any changes to your setup?
>>
>
> The Linux kernel that the LiveCD installed is non-SMP (not present in
>
Eric H. Johnson wrote:
> Andy,
>
> There is a tutorial on building EMC for an SMP kernel here:
> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?EMC_With_Custom_Kernel
>
> Packages are here (which I assume you already found):
> http://linuxcnc.org/experimental/hardy/smp/
>
>
> If you just want to insta
Just thought I would let the list know the results of some experiments I
have done.
I am new to EMC and as such was looking for a machine to run everything
on, After looking around for a while I found that there were pre
compiled packages for SMP (multi processor machines).
I just happened to h
Rainer Schmidt wrote:
>> They quoted the price but in order to pay from credit card they are asking
>> to fax them the photocopy from front and back of my credit card.
>>
>>
> You're kidding me right???
>
> I called them today to figure out what cards do what and which is
> supported by EMC.
perhaps take a look at what the hexapod guys are doing, They seem to use hobby
servos with EMC.
Anders Wallin wrote:
> R/C Servos take a digital pulse input at around 50 (or 100?) Hz.
> The width of the pulse determines the position of the servo.
> A width of 1.5 ms is the central position, and
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