Controlling lube pump & a second parallel post

BigJohnT wrote:

Sorry, I forgot about the -v for lspci...

Your load line should be either

loadrt hal_parport cfg="0x378 out 0x1008 out "

or

loadrt hal_parport cfg="0 out 1 out "

John

Just changed to this:


loadrt hal_parport cfg="0x378 out 0x1008 out "

Will try your other suggestion in a few minutes.

Thanks

Tom

BigJohnT wrote:

or it might be the second address 0x1000....

John

Using the 0x1008 worked, so didn't bother trying the 0x1000.

Think I'll try that later.

Tom

I'm stumped. Trying to put together a hal file and get each component working as I go along.

Current stumper is that I've got a very sparse hal file created by stepconf that works. But when I copy the few applicable entries to my working file, they don't work.

When it first loads, I click on the estop button on screen, and the outputs enable led shows up on the bob. But for some reason, it's still stuck in estop.

I should add that I'm using the PCI port at 0x1008, which seems to be port 1.

I'm waiting for a ribbon cable to arrive so that I can hook up port 0.


The hal file will be in the next message....

Here's the hal file. I've changed the suffix to .txt

Thanks, Andy. At least it gives me a place to start.

This is being a long process, as I've got two bob's, and stepconf only seems to want to use the first bob.

So I have one big working file, which I won't let stepconf alter. Then i run stepconf and add one more pin to a sparse hal file, then compare the two, then move the new entries to the big file, and hope it works.

Trouble is that this estop toggle works fine on the small file, but not on the big file, but does not throw an error.

Now back to the grind....

Tom

Okay, got that fixed, and have outputs for Mist Coolant and Flood Coolant. Have one more solid state relay installed to power the vacuum cleaner. Can anyone point me in the proper direction to use one of the higher numbered M codes to turn the vacuum on and off? Is it possible to add another check box on the screen, similar to the other two boxes for Mist and Flood?

Thanks

Tom