Re: Stepper controllers
Thanks very much Paul, this is helpful. I did try using opto isolators
on one of my early experimental circuits but they just seemed to gum
things up, however, I think now that the problem might have
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"Ian W. Wright" <Ian@...
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#745
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Re: Stepper controllers
Thanks very much Paul, this is helpful. I did try using opto isolators
on one of my early experimental circuits but they just seemed to gum
things up, however, I think now that the problem might have
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"Ian W. Wright" <Ian@...
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#743
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Re: cases.
It seems that cases are a common issue. Usually the amount you think is
reasonable to pay for what is basically some folded sheet doesn't buy what
you need.
Here in the U.K things are usually costlier
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Mo <mo@...>
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#742
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Re: TCL/TK GUI
Fred et al
I have a simple TCL/TK CNC control panel GUI that I was playing with for my
own use. I sent it out serveral months ago to Fred Proctor and some others
on the rt-linux NG. It is just a
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David L Anderson <daveland@...>
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#741
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stepper conversion
Hello
I am new to the list and the internet,I converted a far eastern mill to stepper control about two years ago, which has run successfully since, I purchased the interface and program from R
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peter@...
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#740
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Re: Installing Linux?
"Buchanan, James (Jim)" wrote:
First, you need to make a boot floppy, if you don't have the CDROM.
With a CDROM (if your CD drive is IDE, and your motherboard will
boot from CD) you can boot
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Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
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#738
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For Michael Tilse
For Michael Tilse, who seems to have changed his ISP or net address:
Michael Tilse wrote:
could
might
interested
you
Hi, I just discovered this message in a pile of old messages that
snowed
me under
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Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
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#737
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unsubscribe
Way over my head Thanks Milton
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L/M Crocker <lcmc@...>
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#736
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Nuts and Volts
I just received my June issue of Nuts and Volts today, and Dans article is
excellent.
Dan, a question for you, will the hookups for the limit switches, and the
home switches as shown in the
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WAnliker@...
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#739
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Re: Installing Linux?
James et al,
If you're planning on running the EMC on Linux, note that we haven't
ported to Red Hat 6.0 yet. We're still on 5.2, which has Linux kernel
2.0.36. Red Hat 6.0 packages the 2.2.something
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Fred Proctor <proctor@...>
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#735
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Re: Commercial software
About EMC, writing PLC programs for things like tool changers, and
custom GUIs, Jon Pritchard wrote:
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1. Can a machine control "soft" PLC be incorporated with EMC to run
other machine control such
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Fred Proctor <proctor@...>
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#734
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Re: camtronics driver
Hey Dan,
Thanks for pointing out this source. I did find that they have a web site
for us impatient types and you can download a copy of their catalog from it
and have instant gratification (
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Tim Goldstein <timg@...>
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#733
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Re: Installing Linux?
WARNING WARNING Imminent doom is approaching!!
You are going to need the older version ( RedHat 5.2 ).
RedHat 6.0 uses an new kernel that does not yet have a stable real time
patch and EMC requires
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Tim Goldstein <timg@...>
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#732
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Re: Installing Linux?
You can set up a dual boot system, although it's more complicated than
setting up a dedicated system.
You will need a Linux boot disk. These can be made on a PC though.
You will need to set up a
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paul@...
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#731
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Re: Stepper controllers
In the FWIW department, more years ago than I care to remember, I worked
for a company that was building comp
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paul@...
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#729
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Re: camtronics driver
When I first started selling complete controllers with case fans and power
supplies installed, I found that the case was the show stoppper. Like you
said most of them were in the $120 range and using
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Dan Mauch <dmauch@...>
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#728
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Re: Commercial software
First, let me apologize for the flip attitude I took with you in responding
to your initial post. Its just that we've been having a pretty long
discussion here regarding various control programs and
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Matt Shaver <mshaver@...>
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#727
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Re: Commercial software
Jon Pritchard wrote:
Yes, I'm very sure it could be integrated at several different levels
of complexity. You could just program it in C, and add it as another
task. or, you could write a simple
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Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
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#725
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Re: Camtronics, opto isolators
Electronics Now magazine has plans for an optical isolator circuit for parallel port interfacing. They have it built into an older
mechanical A/B switch, but I'm sure it could go into a mini-tower
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Roger Brower <rbrower@...>
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#750
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Re: camtronics driver
For the box for the unit I'm building I talked to an electrician friend
of mine. He was able to round up a junction box for me, it is 12x12x6,
and is a very solidly constructed.
Al
Tim Goldstein
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Al Schoepp <aschoepp@...>
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#724
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