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Been tasked with making this monstrosity work as it was delivered, mounted, installed, but never tested nor shown it actually works. It is a Mazak with Fanuc controls, has probably over 30 axis in total, pneumatic, Oxygen, 4KW of laser power, nearly 40 meters long, works with 15 meter long tubes, etc, etc.
Took me nearly a whole day to figure out everything due to no prior experience with such machines, and having 3 separate PC's controlling it did not help, but a bit of fiddling and by the evening it was fully working, loading files included.
Next day was spent with the CAM portion and teaching a young employee (actually one of the owners sons) about the procedures of transferring files, copying them into the Fanuc memory, opening and running them, homing everything (3 separate homing procedures), measuring the material (done automatically), adjusting feeds and speeds, adjusting laser power and air assist, changing nozzles, recovering from failed cuts, resetting sensors used for area safety, etc, etc.

Qtdragon on master will now log the last run line (when in auto mode) if estop,machine off, abort or end of program.

almost. I dont have support for SPI SD card that they use on the manta just yet.

LinuxCNC froze! That’s the first time I’ve ever heard of that happening. In your case, since it’s a plasma machine, the risk of harm is relatively low when the control system locks up. But if this had occurred on a large machine, it could’ve been disastrous. That’s exactly why I always advocate for an external hardwired E-stops which are fail-safe and operate independently of the software layers. Relying on on-screen gui emergency stops or and wireless pendant estop are inherently unsafe, as they can create a false sense of security. As you experience shows, you could not stop the machine and you had to reboot the computer.

Also, anytime you update if there is something missing in probe basic using your machine config on program open, check the probe basic simulation from within the linuxcnc sims. It will always have any updated requirements performed. If the sim opens and appears normal, then it's a safe bet that  it's your machine configuration requiring new updates. We put information right on the status page that is updated with new releases with a link to any requirements due to upgrades in probe basic.  Always start there.

Read the release notes!

kcjengr.github.io/probe_basic/update_notes.html

Hi. Yes, but no.

Speed tutorial is there but its just procedure what to send to drive. I have no clue how to implement that to Linuxcnc. 

 Thank you.

Looking around, this may be a Ryzen/kernel version issue.

Typically this is done by by connecting the MPG count to all axis
and selectively enabling jogging on the desired axis

Yes.  That's the idea.  I have a 7i96s already mostly wired.  I spent much of this weekend working on getting the configuration setup, using pncconf.  Only to find that Claude (online AI) led me astray.  I should have been using stepconf.  Or even better... MesaCT. 

pncconf and MesaCT can both create 7I96S configurations, stepconf cannot (stepconf is for parallel port hardware)

To tell the truth I'm not a big fan of Rufus, it tries to be too smart by far.
When I had to create bootable USB stick via windows I always used win32diskimager.org/

Or if using Linuxdoes the job fine, askubuntu.com/questions/1333102/what-is-...-hard-drive-over-usb

> Why not just use it as-is?

• I don't have a license for Mach3
• I prefer to use Ethernet
• I'm removing Windows from all my computers, before October.
• LinuxCNC does not fit on the old computer.

The PMDX board and the pendant will be repurposed for a Sherline from the same guy.  The CPU is barely practical, but I'll give it a try for that Sherline. When that 22 year old hard drive dies, that's the end of that too.

> Maybe just put a mesa board in place of the PMDX
> ... wire the drives directly to Mesa 
Yes.  That's the idea.  I have a 7i96s already mostly wired.  I spent much of this weekend working on getting the configuration setup, using pncconf.  Only to find that Claude (online AI) led me astray.  I should have been using stepconf.  Or even better... MesaCT. 

> Does it work fine right now?
Who knows? It was working fine in 2009, when it was last used. Yes, the servos move. I can't yet try the spindle until I put in a new electrical circuit.  My garage has one outlet, shared with the lighting and garage doors. And my breaker panel is full. 

> What is that IPAC board?
It takes commands from button presses on the pendant, and injects them into the keyboard communication. Then you run Mach3 with keygrabber so that the pendant buttons are captured and sent to Mach3.  There are two ps/2 keyboard ports on the IPAC.  One goes to the computer, the other to the keyboard.  (Which is a real IBM M1... precious metal to me.)

> He obviously took pride in his work.
Yeah.  I was surprised he didn't use more off-the-shelf options. Learning and building was his joy, so that makes sense. 

>Why change something so neatly and carefully made?
I can't make use of the pendant because the new computer doesn't have any parallel ports, and the pendant needs its own parallel port. 
The servo control box will look exactly as it does, except the PMDX board will be swapped out for a Mesa 7i96s. 

 

I have two rotary switches, each switch has 2 outputs driving inputs on a MESA card as 00,01,10,11

Switch #1 is used to select MPG increment 0, 0.0001", 0.001", 0.01"  I'm using a MUX4 to control that. No problem with this.

Switch#2 is for selection of where the MPG ticks   ( net encoder-counts  <= hm2_7i96s.0.inm.00.enc1-count ),gets routed, so to either:
X, Z, C (Compound), or N(None), so....
axis.x.jog-counts
axis.z.jog-counts
anglejog.counts-in
or to nowhere when position N is selected






 

Is that the Delta 2000 CMC-EC01?
There is a manual for download includes a speed demo example.
downloadcenter.deltaww.com/en-US/Downloa...=cdate&sort_dir=DESC

It work well using this : self.myPin = QHAL.newpin("MyPin", QHAL.HAL_BIT, QHAL.HAL_OUT)

Thanks a lot for your help