Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Reviving my mill (EMC)

John,

Pleease keep it on the list, or better yet, move it to the EMC list.

Thanks
Bill

> I've been away from the CAD_CAM_DRO world for a couple
> of years and dusted off my mill (a grizzly mini mill
> I converted with EMC...). I've got some dust or gremlins
> in it because my system is hanging any time I try a
> move... I'll need to work those things out.
>
> I wrote my own parallel interface to use a 24 bit digital
> IO card for I/O and added a few other things in there
> like controlling spindle on/off over the RS232 port.
> Now I'm thinking I need to upgrade and get things
> a little more current, so I either need to re-wire
> or port my changes up.
>
> I'm using linux 2.2.14 with rtl 2.2, (I'm still
> trying to figure out which version of EMC I'm running,
> but it's about 2 years old). My system has problems with
> circular interpolation (I,J type G02/3 moves)...
>
> Right before I got too busy for the mill, the BDI had come out.
> (although I was not terribly interested it as I had gotten
> EMC working the slow way)..
>
> Anyway, I was hoping that some of the EMC guys around here
> might contact me off list (unless you think that it's
> valuable to the group) and bring me up to speed on the tips
> and tricks to the newer EMC and what platforms (distro and
> RTL, etc) are best for building it up again.
>
> One thing I'm considering is building my next EMC system up
> under peewee linux, since then the system runs out of RAM
> or read-only mounted hard-disk, and hence no fscking of file
> systems or waiting to power stuff off. (I'm using this, running
> linux off of 4MB flash cards for other projects).
>
> Thanks, and sorry for bothering the list.
>
> Thanks,
> murph
>
> Erie, CO
>