Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-03 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 23:02:31 -0400 From: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] More progress SNIP

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] More progress SNIP Peter C Wallace, is there a way we could make a fixed duty cycle of 50% in the 5i25 while allowing the variable frequency we need? For testing you can do this by selecting

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 July 2015 00:03:58 Bruce Layne wrote: On 07/02/2015 08:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Generally its about .008 off the math at the end of an inch on the dial. Sometimes ball screws are sold as .2 per turn, but they're actually 5mm, or .1 per turn and maybe they're 2.5mm. I think

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-03 Thread John Thornton
Don't forget to use the coupons to save even more. July 4-5 JULY4TH15% off this one seems to work all the timeNEWSITE1010% off I buy a lot of stuff from McMaster Carr too and like Albany the fasteners are made in the USA. JT On 7/2/2015 7:24 PM, Bruce Layne wrote: Thank you

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-02 Thread John Thornton
Gene, I just wanted to pass along my source for fasteners and they will sell you just one at a reasonable price. Albany County Fasteners http://www.albanycountyfasteners.com/Default.asp On 7/2/2015 1:04 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am now calibrated well enough that I can

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 02 July 2015 19:02:54 John Thornton wrote: Gene, I just wanted to pass along my source for fasteners and they will sell you just one at a reasonable price. Albany County Fasteners I've lost track of that thread John. :( http://www.albanycountyfasteners.com/Default.asp On

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 02 July 2015 18:36:33 Dave Cole wrote: On 7/2/2015 2:04 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: What has been others experience in this calibration aspect? Can I believe the dial indicator. Being gear driven, over long ranges, since a full inch is 10 turns around the dial, my spidey sense

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-02 Thread Bruce Layne
Thank you John! I greatly appreciate shared links to good sources for materials, tools, etc. I've been buying most of my fasteners from McMaster-Carr. When I need 5000 or more, I try to buy direct but it's a hassle. McMaster-Carr is a good source for prototyping and buying a few fasteners

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-02 Thread jeremy youngs
Gene my DM 860 s count on the rise and fall . screwed with me for 2 days . I had to double my micro step number in PNC config to get repeatable indicated readings. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud.

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 02 July 2015 22:14:36 jeremy youngs wrote: Gene my DM 860 s count on the rise and fall . screwed with me for 2 days . I had to double my micro step number in PNC config to get repeatable indicated readings. I wondered about that, since the matching DM542's don't. I am not done

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-02 Thread Bruce Layne
On 07/02/2015 08:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Generally its about .008 off the math at the end of an inch on the dial. Sometimes ball screws are sold as .2 per turn, but they're actually 5mm, or .1 per turn and maybe they're 2.5mm. I think that should result in close to .016 error per inch

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 02 July 2015 22:14:36 jeremy youngs wrote: Gene my DM 860 s count on the rise and fall . screwed with me for 2 days . I had to double my micro step number in PNC config to get repeatable indicated readings. We maybe can fix that Jeremy, I downloaded the manual from Longs, and

[Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-02 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I am now calibrated well enough that I can actually run wood carving code! And it looks like I could crank up the feed rate a bit, but the finish obtained will determine that. The comment someone made about that BOB being slow, depends on the polarity of the pulses. Using a

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-02 Thread Dave Cole
On 7/2/2015 2:04 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: What has been others experience in this calibration aspect? Can I believe the dial indicator. Being gear driven, over long ranges, since a full inch is 10 turns around the dial, my spidey sense says it could have a cyclic error, but from needle 0 to

Re: [Emc-users] More progress.

2015-06-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 17:12:33 Gene Heskett wrote: In removal, lube and reassemble of the quill in the head, I discovered that lcd display's controls are all alternate action, in addition too very well debounced. Nice, but the manual of course doesn't meantion it loud enough to register.

[Emc-users] More progress.

2015-06-30 Thread Gene Heskett
In removal, lube and reassemble of the quill in the head, I discovered that lcd display's controls are all alternate action, in addition too very well debounced. Nice, but the manual of course doesn't meantion it loud enough to register. However, I had a stack of brass encoder wheels left

Re: [Emc-users] More progress with by BBB

2013-07-05 Thread Troy Jacobson
I might have a lead on the two problematic PWM pins. P8.36: All of the docs that I've seen don't show this pin being assigned to a pru. Does this mean that it isn't available to use with the PRU based pwm generator? It looks like it might have been used with the build-in pwm (ehrpwm) with the

Re: [Emc-users] More progress with by BBB

2013-07-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The only problems I have had with pins is when I assign more than one thing to drive them (ie: both the PRU and the hal_bb_gpio driver) or get the muxing wrong in the device tree overlay. The PRU can talk to any GPIO pin on the device, as well as the

Re: [Emc-users] More progress with by BBB

2013-07-04 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adding emc-users to cc: since this might help other folks, and direct email to Troy is being bounced. I noticed in several of my configurations I have I/O pins being driven by both the bb_gpio module and the PRU. This is a bad thing...it doesn't

[Emc-users] More progress with by BBB

2013-06-30 Thread Troy Jacobson
Hi Charles, and all, My BBB is making my printer move, and I'm almost to a place I can use it to make something. The system consists of a bunch of jumper wires from the BBB to a RAMPS board. Functional, but messy. The next steps are: 1) Tweaking the temperature code to match the thermistor

Re: [Emc-users] More progress with by BBB

2013-06-30 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/30/2013 11:26 AM, Troy Jacobson wrote: Hi Charles, and all, My BBB is making my printer move, and I'm almost to a place I can use it to make something. The system consists of a bunch of jumper wires from the BBB to a RAMPS board.