Re: [Emc-users] Spindle position, direction and Index with only one channel.

2012-11-21 Thread Ray Mitchell
I have used these on a competition robot before. They were set up to detect sprocket teeth. Worked great until the mount got a little loose, then it got ground to dust (the magic smoke leaked out at that point). Ray --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com (818)324-7573 A foolish faith

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 76, Issue 124

2012-08-30 Thread Ray Mitchell
the computer editing revolution!) --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com (818)324-7573 A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth. - Einstein On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday 30 August 2012 11:08:13 Matthew Herd did opine

Re: [Emc-users] Curiosity, is gonna run this cat plumb out of lives yet.

2012-08-21 Thread Ray Mitchell
use it. --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com (818)324-7573 A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth. - Einstein On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Hi All; I'm curious. How many of the members of this list has downloaded

Re: [Emc-users] Hey Gene! Hand held O'scope for ya.

2012-08-16 Thread Ray Mitchell
GPIB also had a ridiculously short cable length (and expensive to boot). --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com (818)324-7573 A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth. - Einstein On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Mark Wendt wendt.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16

Re: [Emc-users] How to unlock a linear axis

2012-08-14 Thread Ray Mitchell
the others on using direct feedback to notify the controller that the cylinder is in the released position before motion can start. --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com (818)324-7573 A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth. - Einstein On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:08 AM

Re: [Emc-users] ngcgui?

2012-06-06 Thread Ray Mitchell
It is in the samples directory. You will need to do some tweekeing of the ini file to get the sample config to work on your system. --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com (818)324-7573 A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth. - Einstein On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:02

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard

2012-05-18 Thread Ray Mitchell
The first thing to do is to go to the Intel site and get the BIOS updates and bring the mobo up to date. I got my D510 about a year ago and I had similar issues, and the update solved he problems. I made entries on the wiki. --Ray M jrmitche...@gmail.com A foolish faith in authority is the

Re: [Emc-users] Total OT - TV signal

2012-03-23 Thread Ray Mitchell
If your terrestrial receiver is 3 years or so old, you may want to look into a newer tuner. The chip sets in the newer tuners have better multipath rejection/equalization, and can pick out the digital signal better from the ghost signals. In digital more signal is not necessarily better if you

Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation

2012-03-21 Thread Ray Mitchell
Have you looked at HeeksCAD/CAM? heeks.net Ray On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Jeshua Lacock jes...@3dtopo.com wrote: Greetings, I have been trying to find a decent open source CAD and CAM solution. FreeCAD looks very promising and it appears that Dan Falck got opencamlib at least

Re: [Emc-users] Tool change question

2012-03-20 Thread Ray Mitchell
I always thought that the small tools used for PCB work (the ones with the colored beads on the shaft) were made so that the back of the bead is a reference distance to the tip of the tool. Then you could change the tool, push the bead up against the collett, tighten to a specific torque, and go.