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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Just got a lathe to retrofit

« on: January 24, 2012, 04:13:18 PM »

Ah... so this is the little fellow who's been helping you around Looks like he works night shifts

Good progress on the turret. Thought it'd take months till you get there, but looks like it's a matter of weeks.

Will it be pneumatics or hydraulics pushing the coupling? I have always been doubting the stability of such couplings under load. It's always looked to me like if the spring pulling it is not sufficiently stiff then the coupling halves would slip against each other. Would you please comment?

Dan

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Ethernet SmoothStepper first test

« on: January 24, 2012, 05:43:39 AM »

New Q about the ESS: does the new board have the same annoying ultra persistent, un dismissable error splash screens as the USB version? That in itself would be reason enough to avoid it, in my view. 

Don't think it's a board related thing, but rather a plugin one. I know what you mean and it used to happen quite often here with the previous plugins. With the latest one, this messages got very, very rare and still haven't had those you call in-dissmisible. This is with a USB board.

Dan

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Ethernet SmoothStepper first test

« on: January 24, 2012, 01:03:37 AM »

It shouldn't matter which port you use on the ESS board as long as you set the correct port number (each port on the board is designated) in Mach3 Port and Pins. The 4th connector is an extension port for future use.

If I understand correctly your last question, you want to manually simulate inputs. You can do this. Use the 5V from the board supply.

Dan

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Ethernet SmoothStepper first test

« on: January 23, 2012, 09:57:50 AM »

Yes. Looks so Usual time terms often don't work for R&D.

Dan

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Ethernet SmoothStepper first test

« on: January 23, 2012, 09:42:49 AM »

No. No news since the last time, Hood

Dan

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Ethernet SmoothStepper first test

« on: January 23, 2012, 09:26:26 AM »

Sorry, Hood. Confused it with axis frequency.

Dan

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Ethernet SmoothStepper first test

« on: January 23, 2012, 06:58:07 AM »

Hood,

Think you meant to say MHz for controller frequency

Dan

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: January 20, 2012, 01:53:17 PM »

Hi Tweakie,

Thanks for clearing it up. Looks like it has some significant improvement indeed.

The reason I asked about the material is that on the photo above it looks like there is some transparent layer between the numbers and the background.

Dan

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: January 20, 2012, 11:36:51 AM »

Good news indeed, Tweakie! And this was a quick fix. I wonder though what advantage does it give you over your original B0/B1? The only advantage I see is a more "correct" Gcode.

What is scale engraved onto?

Dan

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Hot Foiling/Embossing blocks

« on: January 13, 2012, 01:13:25 AM »

This is some real fine work. Thanks for showing.

Dan