Re: [Emc-users] Another Newbie Question.

2010-07-30 Thread Jon Elson
Speaker To-Dirt wrote: > Hi All: > >My Bridgeport Series 1 is popping fuses on axies. I'm making a mount plate > and drilling a scad of holes. 160 to be exact. I have a stepping machine with > no glass encoder feedback. So it just counts steps and assumes the stepper > makes the step. I was

Re: [Emc-users] Another Newbie Question.

2010-07-30 Thread Andy Pugh
On 30 July 2010 06:37, Speaker To-Dirt wrote: >   But my real question is this. How do I tell EMC2 where to start the the > g-code program. So for my board I use two nested loops. The outer loop sets > the number of rows and the inner loop sets the number of columns. I have the > machine set i

Re: [Emc-users] Another Newbie Question.

2010-07-29 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 22:37 -0700, Speaker To-Dirt wrote: ... snip >Anyone out there with this experience. That when you use an axis a > lot you pop a fuse. I'm guessing since I'm using the orig old boards > the transistors might be going into thermal runaway and popping the > fuse. I'll blow a

Re: [Emc-users] Another Newbie Question.

2010-07-29 Thread Speaker To-Dirt
Hi All: My Bridgeport Series 1 is popping fuses on axies. I'm making a mount plate and drilling a scad of holes. 160 to be exact. I have a stepping machine with no glass encoder feedback. So it just counts steps and assumes the stepper makes the step. I was lucky tonight in that the Z axis k