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[00:00:58] <FinboySlick> A2Sheds: When can I buy? ;)
[00:02:20] <Valen> the problem is because the device is then connected to mains it has to presumably go through mains rated safety
[00:02:25] <Valen> double insulated everything etc etc
[00:03:26] <A2Sheds> FinboySlick: boards start shipping this month, the factory in China is just getting back up after the spring festival
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[00:03:48] <FinboySlick> A2Sheds: No onboard storage at all, right?
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[00:06:58] <A2Sheds> FinboySlick: 4GB flash
[00:07:13] <FinboySlick> A2Sheds: Wow, then it's absolutely perfect.
[00:07:31] <A2Sheds> the 68 pin connector supports SATA
[00:10:19] <FinboySlick> A2Sheds: Got that. What's to be expected cost-wise?
[00:16:35] <A2Sheds> FinboySlick: once it ramps up $25-35/card with the A10, the AMD APU version will be equivalent to a similar mainboard price
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[00:17:37] <FinboySlick> Is there an FPU on the A10?
[00:18:46] <FinboySlick> Nevermind, just figured out you meant Cortex A10 ;)
[00:18:49] <A2Sheds> yes, it's an ARM cortex a8 1.2GHz
[00:19:16] <A2Sheds> http://rhombus-tech.net./allwinner_a10/
[00:19:46] <A2Sheds> Luc Verhagen is releasing open drivers for mali as well
[00:20:13] <A2Sheds> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=arm_mali_reverse&num=1
[00:20:36] <FinboySlick> That would be important to my *other* project :)
[00:20:51] <A2Sheds> I might have a version of the card with an FPGA to interface to mesa IO cards
[00:21:41] <FinboySlick> Actually, all I need is something capable of booting linux with 8-10 GPIO and an USB connector.
[00:22:17] <FinboySlick> And an FPU.
[00:22:25] <A2Sheds> the FPGA version would also have a DDR3 NAND drive (ddr3 behind the NAND interface to be used as fast swap)
[00:23:00] <A2Sheds> yes, it covers those requirements
[00:23:22] <A2Sheds> #arm-netbook is that channel
[00:23:28] <FinboySlick> It's simple enough that I'm begining to wonder if I could run it all off an FPGA.
[00:23:57] <FinboySlick> Hmm...
[00:24:08] <Valen> FinboySlick: rasberry pi?
[00:24:29] <A2Sheds> uclinux has been running on xilinx and other FPGA soft cpu's for a while
[00:24:30] <FinboySlick> Valen: Well, it seemed like a cheap platform for what I'm trying to do, but even that has lots of extras that I don't need.
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[00:54:59] <sliptonic-shop> I'm configuring a new computer to drive my cnc router and laser. I get max jitter numbers around 9700 on the base thread but unless my base period is set at 34000 or greater I get the RTAPI unexpected delay error.
[00:55:33] <sliptonic-shop> This is way worse than the old P4 machine with similar max jitter numbers. Any idea where to start looking?
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[01:06:34] <Jymmm> Dont use on-board video, disable things in BIOS you done need (FDD, serial ports, etc)
[01:06:42] <Jymmm> s/done/dont/
[01:06:54] <FinboySlick> And disable hyperthreading if you have it.
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[01:22:37] <Valen> sliptonic-shop: its not uncommon to have a single latency spike when starting openGL
[01:22:54] <Valen> run your latency test, then start glx-gears
[01:23:03] <Jymmm> What it is after 24H is what matters.
[01:23:05] <Valen> if you get just the one spike its probably ok
[01:23:21] <Valen> just don't start any openGL apps ;->
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[02:13:56] <sliptonic-shop> Valen Jymmm I've left the machine for 24 hours at a stretch and I see pretty consistent numbers around 9700 - 10000. But I get the RTAPI message every time I launch emc and home it. It's just that the latency numbers are so different from what I have to put in for base thread that has me confused.
[02:14:25] <Valen> sliptonic-shop: did you start glx-gears *after* latency test?
[02:14:45] <sliptonic-shop> Yes. 6 or 8 copies.
[02:15:52] <Valen> you got no spike when you started glx?
[02:16:20] <sliptonic-shop> No. Not really.
[02:16:35] <Valen> you can look at latency within axis as well
[02:16:50] <Valen> theres some thing you can perhaps plot
[02:17:02] <Valen> forgot what its called
[02:19:23] <sliptonic-shop> Something in Halscope?
[02:20:09] <Valen> yeah
[02:20:22] <Valen> one of the things you can scope is latency or something like that
[02:20:26] <Valen> i forget its actual name
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[02:27:26] <cstop> I have the Lat test going now on an IBM Thinkcenter that I use as my desk web crawler. Sevo thread Max jitter is 290130, Base thread is 304700. No hope for this one ;-)
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[02:46:15] <Jymmm> cstop: you shouldn't / I wouldn't rely upon a laptop
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[02:52:21] <cstop> The Thinkcenter is a small form factor Box Thinkpads are lap tops
[02:53:50] <Jymmm> All I saw was "IBM Think..." Which technically is Lenovo, not IBM, unless this is like 10 years old =)
[02:54:12] <Jymmm> or guberment surplus
[02:55:23] <cstop> Everything I have is at least ten years old ;-) I like old stuff!
[02:55:58] <cstop> ya know ya can't buy 'em like this any more
[03:01:13] <skunkworks> Is there no i/o on 7I78
[03:06:28] <skunkworks> no
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[03:20:25] <cstop> it takes an additional serial card to add I/O
[03:51:16] <pcw_home> or just the other port if 17 TTL I/O is enough
[03:54:59] <mikegg> http://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxCNC/
[03:55:06] <mikegg> anyone else a reddit junkie ?
[03:57:40] <jdhNC> I thought reddit was porn
[04:00:32] <mikegg> eh, there's other stuff too
[04:03:47] <mikegg> pictures of cats, and atheists
[04:08:14] <skunkworks> pcw_home: oh - didn't think of that...
[04:11:30] <pcw_home> or any standard parallel port type breakout if you want isolation/ buffering or whatever
[04:11:56] <skunkworks> pcw_home: that is a very cool product..
[04:14:08] <pcw_home> I should have done it sooner, I was afraid the PCI stuff would be too hard but it was pretty easy
[04:15:23] <Valen> pcw_home: pci stuff?
[04:15:34] <pcw_home> PCI core
[04:15:52] <Valen> inside a fpga?
[04:16:50] <pcw_home> Yes part of hm2 for 5I25 like cards that have no bridge chip
[04:17:24] <Valen> nice
[04:17:38] <Valen> pci has always scared me electrically, and now pci-E just makes it insane
[04:18:07] <pcw_home> Tradeoff is you cannot bootstrap a un-programmed FPGA card except via JTAG
[04:18:37] <Valen> bit of a pain
[04:18:48] <Valen> parallel port jtag wiggler? ;->
[04:20:05] <pcw_home> But the Spartan 6 has multi-boot capability so even if you pull the plug while writing the EEPROM you are OK
[04:20:07] <pcw_home> (yes a parallel port wiggler will do)
[04:20:25] <Valen> multiboot is handy
[04:20:38] <Valen> I have always wanted to play with fpgas
[04:20:50] <Valen> i always seem to want bunches of PWM's
[04:21:02] <pcw_home> should only need JTAG if you make a pretty bad mistake or 2 mistakes in a row
[04:21:03] <Valen> and doing that with micros gets irritating
[04:21:41] <pcw_home> PWM gen is small enough Im sure you can have 1 per pin if you need it
[04:21:57] <Valen> i also want small and cheap
[04:22:14] <Valen> for one app I want 7x PWM's with deadtime
[04:22:18] <Valen> ideally ;->
[04:22:34] <Valen> including the fets and a radio , in the size of a matchbox
[04:23:14] <pcw_home> FPGA are not really cheap unless you have high volumes (and need funny power supplies)
[04:24:08] <Valen> thats always been the barrier to entry for me
[04:24:11] <pcw_home> probably some couple of $ DSP is the best bet
[04:24:27] <pcw_home> some have 8 or more PWMs
[04:24:31] <Valen> they don't seem to have the deadtime generators though
[04:24:45] <Valen> that only seems to come from motor controllers
[04:24:59] <Valen> and they don't often have more than 3 or 4 PWMs
[04:25:16] <pcw_home> 7 PWMs with highside/lowside/deadzone?
[04:25:32] <Valen> that'd probably do i spose lol
[04:25:42] <Valen> I like the micros with FPGA around them, never used one though
[04:26:15] <pcw_home> Some of the PICs we use have 8 PWMs but they may only have 4 if you need h/l/d
[04:26:30] <Valen> yeah, thats what i've been seeing
[04:26:59] <pcw_home> also they have the high res PWM (960 MHz)
[04:27:12] <Valen> mhz? or khz?
[04:27:32] <Valen> I'm only after ~10khz max
[04:27:37] <pcw_home> but its really only good to 480 MHz (thats the basic clock)
[04:27:57] <Valen> you sure your not adding a 0 or an M to those numbers?
[04:28:14] <Valen> 96mhz in a pic i can just about see ;-.
[04:28:21] <Valen> 960mhz?
[04:29:02] <pcw_home> no thats the PWM clock so ~9 bit PWM at 1 MHz 12 bit at 125 KHz
[04:29:40] <Valen> yeah, i just still wouldn't believe any component in a pic running at ~1ghz
[04:29:53] <pcw_home> PLL
[04:30:06] <Valen> i have avr pwm running at 60+ mhz for pwm stuff
[04:30:33] <Valen> got a part number on one of those handy?
[04:30:39] <Valen> got me all curious now
[04:30:55] <pcw_home> deliberately done for Hi res PWM ( older chips ran PWM at CPU clock so 40 MHz or so)
[04:30:57] <pcw_home> TI also does this
[04:31:10] <Valen> oh i've seen it done
[04:31:13] <Valen> i've even used it
[04:31:20] <Valen> that avr had a core clock of 16mhz
[04:31:26] <Valen> pll for pwm clock
[04:32:42] <pcw_home> DSPIC33FJ16GS502
[04:32:54] <pcw_home> for example
[04:36:41] <pcw_home> TI has a 5.5 GHz equivalent PWM frequency (180 ps steps) (and maybe more on some chips)
[04:37:09] <Valen> I'm guessing they cheat somehow
[04:38:10] <Valen> some kind of skewed clock doohickey
[04:38:14] <pcw_home> They do, its some kind of analog delay imterpolator or some such
[04:39:36] <pcw_home> kind of like Xilinx's DLLs which are just a tapped ring oscillator
[04:39:40] <Valen> how many macrocells would a pwm use ?
[04:40:06] <Valen> roughly
[04:40:38] <pcw_home> You can make a really tiny one with SRL16s so you could have 1000s in a decent sizedFPGA
[04:41:15] <Valen> just browsing through the cheap section of them in my suppliers catalog
[04:41:22] <Valen> anyway i must get some work donw
[04:41:30] <Valen> thanks for the heads up
[04:41:34] <pcw_home> the one in HM2 uses a common reference counter and comparators
[04:42:19] <pcw_home> its not too big either so the smaller FPGA will easily fit more than you are likely to need
[04:42:36] <Valen> I wonder about doing the rest of the code in it
[04:42:41] <pcw_home> s/smaller/smallest/
[04:42:44] <Valen> i spose i could make it pretty simple
[04:43:00] <Valen> so just radio > fpga
[04:43:42] <Valen> theres usually some slightly complex stuff involved, and a brushless motor controller, but that shouldn't be too hard
[04:44:14] <pcw_home> you can put maybe 8-10 8 bit 133/150 MHz processors in a very small FPGA
[04:44:17] <pcw_home> (XC6SLX4)
[04:44:46] <Valen> those might be physically small
[04:44:57] <Valen> but pretty spendy and bga?
[04:45:02] <pcw_home> We would normally use a DSP for that cost wise
[04:45:25] <pcw_home> FPGA will be maybe $7 vs 3 and needs 1.2V
[04:45:54] <Valen> do they have higer voltage IOs?
[04:46:24] <pcw_home> But if you need custom/flexible I/O the FPGA wins
[04:46:43] <Valen> I'll probably just use 2x AVRs
[04:46:51] <Valen> one for 2x brushed motors and 1x for the brushless
[04:46:57] <pcw_home> No newer FPGAs are 3.3V only or even 2.5V
[04:47:14] <Valen> not going to direct drive fets off that
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[04:48:25] <pcw_home> FPGAs are also nice in that you can tailor the peripherals to your needs (if we had to do what SSLBP does with standard UARTS we would have given up)
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[12:55:38] <awallin> hmm, -20C over here today...
[13:06:38] <alex_joni> yup, pretty cold over here too
[13:06:43] <alex_joni> -13 .. -15C
[13:07:05] <jdhNC> brisk 23C here this afternoon.
[13:07:49] <alex_joni> awallin: going to austria this weekend, -27C announced there :(
[13:09:12] <awallin> yeah, southern finland is close to the sea, so that stabilizes things a bit. if you are inland with no sea close it can get really cold. They had -35C up north I think.. next week it's supposed to be "warm" -10C again
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[15:35:43] <mrsun> hmm, acceleration of 2047 ... might that be the problem to my stallings? ;P
[15:36:17] <awallin> just get bigger motors!
[15:37:35] <archivist> except then inertial mass is higher!
[15:39:54] <mrsun> lowered it to about 50 and now they are quite strong =)
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[16:11:12] <joe9> mikegg: do you have any "pogo pins" that I can borrow? I need them urgently and will give them back to you when the order ships from mouser/digikey?
[16:12:00] <mrsun> 0 in backlash on X axis, 0.03 on Y axis, then linuxcnc comes into play with its backlash compensation =)
[16:12:14] <mrsun> i love that function ... love it love it =)
[16:16:43] <joe9> mikegg: or, I can buy them from you. whichever you prefer.
[16:34:05] <mrsun> hmm, i feel crippled by bad cam software ... sigh :P
[16:39:03] <Tom_itx> good cam software is available :)
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[16:46:01] <mikegg> joe9: the spring loaded kind, you mean
[16:46:02] <mikegg> ?
[16:46:05] <joe9> yes
[16:46:11] <mikegg> hmm
[16:46:15] <mikegg> I don't think so
[16:46:19] <joe9> ok, thanks.
[16:46:42] <joe9> do you know any place locally where I can find them? fry's might not carry it. I think
[16:46:47] <mikegg> try Ack radio
[16:46:59] <mikegg> off Northside and Deering
[16:47:04] <joe9> cool, thanks.
[16:47:23] <mikegg> or McMaster-Carr will call, maybe
[16:47:45] <joe9> ok, thanks. will check with them both.
[16:47:54] <mikegg> yeah, they got em
http://www.mcmaster.com/#pogo-pins/=g2pltn
[16:48:17] <mikegg> they're down off fulton industrial
[16:48:54] <joe9> mikegg: cool, thank you so much.
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[17:01:26] <joe9> the ack radio seems to have a lot of history. Is it a cool store?
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[17:02:10] <joe9> i have been going to fry's for anything I need that I cannot wait for digikey/mouser
[17:02:25] <Jymmm> digikey should have pogo pins I'd think
[17:02:40] <joe9> Jymmm: i think they do.
[17:02:47] * Tom_itx gives Jymmm a pogo stick to play with
[17:03:12] <Jymmm> Tom_itx: Only if it's gas engine powered
[17:03:27] <Tom_itx> those were made here in town
[17:03:28] <Tom_itx> btw
[17:03:33] <Tom_itx> chance MFG
[17:03:39] <Jymmm> really?
[17:03:42] <Jymmm> heh
[17:03:51] <Tom_itx> basically like a pyle driver
[17:03:54] <Tom_itx> single piston
[17:04:53] <Jymmm> Personally, I'd have lawyers for salesmen, then when they sell them they get the release of liability correct too.
[17:05:13] <Tom_itx> http://www.bpmlegal.com/wpogo.html
[17:06:13] <Jymmm> That McMaster link doesn't even say if those pins are gold plated or not.
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[17:06:33] <Jymmm> you really want the gold plated ones.
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[17:08:10] <Tom_itx> Jymmm, ever watch gallery 64?
[17:08:15] <Tom_itx> err whatever it is
[17:08:26] <Tom_itx> they auctioned one on there a while back
[17:08:31] <Jymmm> BTW... This has shut down four schools for a week in the Bay Area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus
[17:08:48] <Jymmm> Tom_itx: That must be where I saw it the first time.
[17:10:05] <Jymmm> Alcohol aka Hand Sanitizers are not too effective either.
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[17:31:41] <pcw_home> http://www.random-good-stuff.com/2007/01/18/ebay-gas-powered-pogo-stick-hoprod/
[17:33:40] <Jymmm> The handle is almost twice as wide as the foot pegs - fsck me
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[18:09:31] <pcw_home> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixLJghjYi00&feature=related
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[18:21:18] <skunkworks> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIMGV5vtd4&feature=player_embedded
[18:26:22] <mikegg> ahhhhh pcw_home: thank you for making such awesome hardware! I'm finally able to get a good tune on my servos
[18:27:10] <mikegg> with those +/- 10 VDC analog drives, you couldn't tune them for shit. I think they are really sensitive to noise. any D-gain and they become unstable
[18:28:18] <mikegg> I love this 7i39. rock solid
[18:29:42] <Jymmm> mikegg: You forgot the "pcw, YOU'RE MY HERO! <rapid blinking of eyes goes here>"
[18:29:54] <mikegg> hah
[18:30:08] <Jymmm> =)
[18:30:40] <pcw_home> Well crude old voltage mode PWM has one nice redeeming virtue: inherent high frequency damping damping
[18:31:22] <skunkworks> I am using +/-10 drives with great results. (but Also mesa interface hardware so maybe that is the magic ;) )
[18:31:40] <mikegg> are they torque mode?
[18:32:05] <skunkworks> took 2 tries to hook the the mesa connected to the drive without noise issues.
[18:32:05] <mikegg> I got the best results in torque mode, but they had a deadband around zero
[18:32:12] <pcw_home> Torque mode drives are a bear to tune without a pretty high servo thread rate
[18:32:14] <Jymmm> Magic? That would explain the chicken bones and eye-of-newt invoice I saw on mesa's website.
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[18:32:19] <skunkworks> I have 3 in velocity mode and 1 in torque mode
[18:32:21] <FinboySlick> Jymmm: Was it you I was discussing Trailer Park Boys with a while back?
[18:32:36] <Jymmm> FinboySlick: I seriously doubt it
[18:32:57] <FinboySlick> Alright.
[18:32:57] <Jymmm> but could be
[18:33:06] <FinboySlick> Well, you a fan?
[18:33:18] <mikegg> there's a funny youtube compilation of "ricky-isms"
[18:33:24] <skunkworks> 2 of the 3 have actual tachs - 1 uses sythisized tach from the mesa encoder. works great.\
[18:33:25] <Jymmm> not really
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[18:34:02] <pcw_home> with torque mode drives you also will want to use the velocity estimation from the encoder module in the PID loop, not just DP/DT
[18:35:21] <pcw_home> which is the default unless you connect the PID comps feedback-deriv pin
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[18:39:49] <FinboySlick> mikegg: You seen this?
http://www.indiegogo.com/race-dicks
[18:40:08] <mikegg> as in net velocity_fb hm2_5i20.0.encoder.00.velocity pid.0.feedback-deriv
[18:40:10] <mikegg> ?
[18:40:11] <FinboySlick> (it's tpb related, not um... penile related)
[18:41:35] <mikegg> it says former trailer park boys...did they cancel that show!?
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[18:48:43] <pcw_home> mikegg yes that will reduce the D term noise quite a bit
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[18:55:31] <skunkworks> works quite well
[19:01:10] <mikegg> shucks, I never tried that...
[19:01:46] <mikegg> I think I'm going to pick up some servos on the bay to convert my lathe. Maybe I'll give it another go..
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[20:05:38] <kirk_wallace> Hello, I'm trying to get Modbus working on my SJ200 VFD . Using modpoll I can read coils, which start at address 0x01, but I can't read registers. The manual shows addresses for registers, but apparently, these are indexes to the register block start, which is not stated in the manual. I searched for other information and found an app note that indicated the registers start at 40001, but modpoll returns an illegal address error from the SJ200.
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[20:08:17] <kirk_wallace> BTW, I got a MVX900 VFD using the same procedure, but the MVX manual gave the proper addresses, and not an index dependent offset.
[20:18:07] <FinboySlick> mikegg: They didn't cancel the show, the entire story ended with the last movie.
[20:18:14] <FinboySlick> And a *very* drunk Lahey.
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[20:20:50] <mikegg> ah, ok. I'm still a little sensitive after Arrested Development :)
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[20:21:47] <FinboySlick> mikegg: I heard there's two new seasons of that and a movie in the work.
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[20:23:09] <wendtmk> Howdy
[20:23:32] <skunkworks> wow - been a while?
[20:23:54] <wendtmk> Yeah, it has. Family and work getting in the way of me getting here.
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[20:25:15] <wendtmk> You shoulda seen the software updater when I turned my computer on for the first time in a number of months. About 200 MB of software updates, including v2.4.7 of uh, linuxCNC... ;-)
[20:25:49] <wendtmk> We got any HAL guys onboard today?
[20:28:49] <mrsun> gah put some set screws on the base of the mill to ease tramming it ... yeah right ...
[20:28:58] <mrsun> cant get it trammed however i do it :/
[20:30:00] <skunkworks> just ask
[20:31:55] <skunkworks> wendtmk: what project are you working on?
[20:32:25] <kirk_wallace> I'm looking for help with modbus on an SJ200 VFD. I asked about a half hour ago, but can repost.
[20:33:19] <wendtmk> Welp, with the upgrade to 2.4.7, a a HAL Pin that had worked up to today no longer works. In my custom_postgui.hal file, I've got the config set for both an MPG and a joypad. No problems with the MPG, but this line: "net remote-speed-slow or2.0.in0 input.0.btn-trigger" now causes EMC2 to barf on startup, with this error: "custom_postgui.hal :87: Pin 'input.0.btn-trigger' does not exist
[20:34:06] <wendtmk> Ah, this is my CNC saw beveler that I've had up and running for a while now.
[20:35:19] <wendtmk> So, did the btn-trigger pin get deprecated in one of the last few releases? I don't remember what release I had on before it got upgraded yesterday to 2.4.7
[20:35:42] <skunkworks> wendtmk: yes - a pin changed depending on how linux enumerated it.. (or something like that)
[20:36:06] <wendtmk> Forgot to mention, if I comment out that line, EMC2 starts up just fine.
[20:36:39] <skunkworks> so - start linuxcnc with it commented and look at the pin list.
[20:36:53] <skunkworks> it is the trigger name that changed iirc
[20:37:19] <cpresser> perhaps you need to change the hal component from hal_joystick to hal_input
[20:37:54] <cpresser> but most likely linuxcnc wouldnt start if you tried to load a nonexistent module
[20:38:20] <wendtmk> All right, give me a few and I'll start it up with that pin commented out
[20:40:00] <mrsun> oh ive been doing it wroong .... how nice :P
[20:40:51] <mrsun> oh well, you live and you learn =)
[20:41:41] <wendtmk> Yeah, it's the trigger name, but I'm not sure which one is the one that replaced it looking at the HAL btn-*
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[20:42:28] <wendtmk> Lets see if I can find my joypad doccy's from when I set this thing up originally.
[20:44:07] <skunkworks> wendtmk: I think it changed to input.0.btn.joystick
[20:44:25] <skunkworks> http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/component/kunena/?func=view&catid=24&id=14636
[20:45:54] <wendtmk> Okay, lemme try that and see if it works
[20:48:21] <wendtmk> That was it! Muchos Gracias!!!
[20:56:02] <skunkworks> great!
[20:58:57] <wendtmk> You guys make this stuff too easy... ;-)
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[21:16:42] <Connor> Wow, how cool. I just "power" tapped for the first time on my mini lathe.. Just put the tap in the tail stock chuck. put the lathe in slowest speed. Move the tailstock up close and fed the tap in.. it pulled the chuck out of the tail stock so I just applied hand force to the chuck and it tapped.. when it got hard.. I reversed the tap to break the chips and forward again.
[21:18:46] <Connor> Using regular hand taps, which I know your not suppose to do.. but.. it's all I have...
[21:19:09] <joe9> mikegg: mcmaster's is awesome. it is huge.
[21:20:38] <mikegg> haha, yeah. That place always blows my mind. great resource to have here
[21:21:58] <joe9> yes, I agree. Even Ack is not bad, compared with what Fry's/radioshack has to offer.
[21:22:13] <mikegg> If you get your order in early in the morning, they've got a courier service that will get your parts same day in the city
[21:22:41] <joe9> which one, mcmaster or ack?
[21:22:46] <mikegg> mcmaster
[21:23:04] <joe9> i used to go to Trukut for drill bits. looks like mcmaster beats them by a lot.
[21:32:26] <mikegg> you gotta watch it with McMaster, they don't always have the most competitive prices if you can wait a few days...
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[21:42:00] <gene__> Silly Q guys: Whar #var holds the current state of the probe contact?
[21:42:04] <joe9> oh, thanks. They appeared to be a bit pricey.
[21:44:06] <Jymmm> gene__: Geeze man, that's such a silly question <rolls eyes>. You know it's :ThisOfCourseIsTheVariableThatHoldsTheStateOfTheProbeSilly
[21:45:59] <gene__> Is that 5070? Its sorta buried at the bottom of the g38 stuff. What I want to do after contact is move a thou & recheck, if stiil true=0 move 2 thou the other way
[21:46:40] <cradek> gene__: you can't read the level, you can only work with edge detection. can you rethink a way to get what you want with that?
[21:51:46] <gene__> I'm going in the x dir, trying to find both sides of a hole, and I just found that 5070 is not being updated when conntact is made or broken with a simple jog of a thou or so
[21:53:12] <gene__> How is the edge detection tested for? Only with a g38.2?
[21:54:15] <cradek> gene__:
http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gcode.html
[21:54:25] <cradek> near the top
[21:55:38] <mrsun> http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=65y7G_sstno heh he got quite alot of machines =)
[21:57:07] <syyl_> oh yes has a great shop
[21:57:21] <syyl_> and a deckel fp1 :D
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[21:58:00] <mrsun> i could only wish that was my stuff in my lifetime :P
[21:58:20] <pfred1> mrsun work on your credit score
[21:58:24] <gene__> I see that, it says the same as my printout, no help there because #5070 is only update by a g38 call
[21:58:35] <mrsun> pfred1, credit score?
[21:58:48] <gene__> to the drawing board... Thanks
[21:58:52] <pfred1> mrsun sure so yo ucan borrow the money to buy it all
[21:59:02] <mrsun> i do not borrow
[21:59:09] <mrsun> =)
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[22:00:24] <mrsun> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVCKdELtnJ8&feature=related hehe thats how littered my shop looks, tho i do not have that much machines and cabinets etc still i manage to have tools layinga round everywhere :P
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[22:07:01] <pfred1> mrsun this guy lives in the rust belt where people have been throwing that old junk out for years
[22:13:01] <FinboySlick> mrsun: I say too many grinders.
[22:14:44] <[n0b0dy]> getting shop envy
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[22:47:14] <skunkworks> gene__:
http://youtu.be/KOi51ogqels
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[23:04:45] <Jymmm> skunkworks: is that a TOUCH - as in electrical, or switch based probe?
[23:05:21] * JT-Shop is jealous of Sams touch probe
[23:05:37] <syyl_> i would bet that its switch based
[23:05:49] <skunkworks> we lucked out getting that thing.
[23:05:58] <skunkworks> it is a switch based
[23:06:03] <syyl_> yay ;)
[23:08:22] <pfred1> this just might work
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[23:14:52] * FinboySlick pops the cork in celebration.... and because he just had some left over sparkling cider.
[23:16:49] <Valen> no such thing as left overs ;-P
[23:18:53] <FinboySlick> Valen: Not for long anyway.
[23:19:24] <FinboySlick> If I start spouting more random nonsense than usual, I likely drank it too fast.
[23:21:17] <pfred1> drink, drank, drunk, the three tenses of the word
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