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I would first make sure that your 5V supply is adequate
If the DONE LED remains illuminated after power on,
that is either an external  power supply issue or indicates
corrupted flash data.

If the flash is corrupted, you may be able to recover by
setting both IP address select jumpers to the "UP" position
and loading the fallback image. If this make no difference
is more likely a 5V power supply issue.


 

found it "pkg-reconfigure locales" and it fixed the issue. Thanks

I bought 2kw servo motor long time back. like this one in the link

www.aliexpress.com/item/32868022627.html...in.36.18441802DpVtla


I want to use it as a spindle (no tapping ) 

Can someone direct me to where I find how to wire this creature?

I am using break-out-board, and BT-30 power head

Second question 

Does this motor have sufficient axial bearing to mill directly without the power head?

Good day

Philip
 

I think the 7i95T needs to be plugged directly into your PC and not a router or switch.

JT

Newbie to LinuxCNC and MesaCT here. I just powered up the 7I95T for the first time ever and LED CR 16 FPGA/DONE is ON (Red), which means that there was a problem with configuring the FPGA. I have MesaCT 2.1.6 installed.  It looked for 10.10.10.10 and then 192.168.1.121 and both did not find the board. What do I do now? Is the board defective, it should have responded to 192.168.1.121 since it's the default. My subnet is 192.168.1.x. I can't flash new firmware because it can't communicate with the board.

I switched ports on the router to make sure my cat5 cable and router ports are good, and both of the connection are working.

I can ping 192.168.1.1, but host not reachable for 192.168.1.121.

Thanks so much for all the help

When I run the "sudo dpkg-reconfigure" command it says it needs a package name. Do you recall what package needs to be reconfigured?

Sure:
 
See attached. 

hallo,

den tool dm habe ich eingetragen. das ändert nichts.
In der hal anzeige lassen sich xyz und probe input tasten, alles andere nicht.
Der probe taster lößt noch aus. Siehe hal anzeige..
 ich glaube ich gebe auf...?

karlhe

Thank you for your suggestions as well, Tommy. Sadly, there is a planned power outage tomorrow so I will be able to put them to practice on Monday at the earliest... I'll post an update immediately afterwards.

Hm, you are correct, it is weird how they are all zeroes, except the 6th slave which is a 1. But this is indeed the output:

(I have attached the full output as a separate file so as not to have a wall of text)

What does this suggest in your opinion? I do have the xml from the manufacturer on me (attached as well) and it does look like these are the intended PIDs even there. Could this weird decision from the manufacturer be causing some conflict with LinuxCNC?

Also regarding your latter question, I do believe that is the case, but I am not sure if there is any better way to confirm this than simply removing all wired connections from the XFCE internet settings. I even disabled the other ethernet port of the PC. This also stopped the constant notifications that the network was disconnected. Do you have anything else in mind I can try to be 100% certain?

I finally managed to get all the parts & wiring done. Settled with a 7I97T and a 7I84 controlled by a Raspberry Pi.
Crazy to think that the little Pi is probably 10x more powerful than the huge Siemens controller.
 

I implemented the tool changer via classicladder and it really works like a charm, pretty happy with it.

Now I just have to tune the PIDs for the servos and I can run some test parts. The Fusion360 CAM section for turning looks way simpler than for milling, pretty much just 4 operations, so I think I'll pick this up quickly.

I fixed the link and cleaned up the thread.

JT

snowgoer540 yes it definitely raises an eyebrow.
To the original poster. if this isn't a gateway for spam, then I have two words for all your stated questions.
It Depends.
in MY opinion accuracy is far better then speed, that requirement only goes up when dealing with highly
dense circuit boards with very small components. Like say 0201 SMD sizes.
Do you want to place high pin count chips on the same run? Accuracy again is key. Having to realign
chips after going through the reflow is a major pain.
The key questions you would need to answer are -
Whats the smallest component you will be dealing with?
What's the maximum size PCB you are willing to deal with?
How much do you require the machine to do automatically?
Do you require the machine to place glue dots on the board?
Will you accept using a machine that requires an external air source?
Does the machine need to operate 24/7 365?
Do you require an entire assembly line with the PnP?
( solder screener, PnP, reflow oven, post reflow inspection, PCB cleaning)

This is all highly dependent on Your requirements. The more you want to happen automatically the more expensive
things get.

lastly, don't take it personally about the SPAM comment we get a ton of it on this site all the time.
 

I it correct that the PIDs for all drives is 0?
What does ethercat slaves -v say?
Can you confirm that there is now a dedicated ethernet connection for ethercat?

Not EtherCAT but it is general networking:
-check cables one by one
-test only a single drive at a time
-for wireshark you would need an old hub, not a switch, to be able to see all the trafic, or use the laptop as a proxy between the control pc and ethercat equipment
-wireshark needs a network card that can do "promiscuous" mode to monitor everything, some cards can not do that despite working with wireshark and showing some trafic.