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I have the delay set to 0.2 or 0.3 always, depending on thickness, i would guess 80% of my machines are at 0.3.

Good idea! I'll add a locking mechanism to the route and see if that helps. I do already have try-except wrapping the entire endpoint.

Since I'm modifying Tormach's code directly, I'm trying to keep changes minimal to avoid breaking PathPilot's core functionality.

Pathpilot is v2.10.1

I would use Tormach's internal debugging system which would write to the status logs
self.error_handler.write("My message", ALARM_LEVEL_DEBUG). I wrapped the endpoint in a try catch block so that's why I'm also very puzzled. I do however run my flask application in development like this, so I'm not sure if I'm running into a locking issue:

class FlaskAppWrapper:
def __init__(self):
....
def run(self):
try:
threading.Thread(target=self.run_app_at_port, args=(mill_port,)).start()
except Exception as e:
print "error in threading: \n" + str(e) + "\n"

def run_app_at_port(self, port):
try:
self.app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=port, threaded=True)
except Exception as e:
print "error has occurred when running flask: \n" + str(e) + "\n"

I got the files from this post
forum.linuxcnc.org/ethercat/55806-long-i...-drive-sv660n#337330

It was from a user hanz24 at the bottom of the first page. They too were using an inovance drive but a newer model.

I tried the 1. step but no luck. Maybe I am doing something fundamentally wrong.

¿Que modelo?

Buenos días, espero que todos se encuentren bien.
Mi nombre es Santiago, Soy de Argentina.
Estoy buscando ayuda para poder comprar unas placas de Mesa electronics.
El problema es que al entrar en Mesanet estas no están disponibles.
El único proveedor que encontré bien fue mesaUS, el problema con estos es que no ofrecen envío hasta Argentina, sino dentro de estados unidos y otros países.
Quisiera saber y contactar alguien del país que haya comprado placas, o similares en el formato que se me da, que sería comprarlas en estados unidos e importarlas por otro proveedor.
Desde ya muchas gracias.
Espero su respuesta.
¡Saludos!

Good, the UNMATCHED datagrams are gone. One more step done.

Nobody needs that xml file, maybe some geek is looking at it. Linuxcnc doesn't use it,
it can read all necessary info from the drive.

So what I look at are the linesInvalid input configuration. It can be several things, but it has to do with the Syncmanagers and the PDOs.
You said you got the files from another post here, do you have a link to it?

When I look in that esi/xml file you attached I see that you use a PDO index of a fixed PDO, and it looks like you don't have the correct pdoentries in there. There are two things you can do.
1. Use a configurable PDO and put in the existing pdoentries in there.
Simply change
<pdo idx="1b01">
to
<pdo idx="1a00">

and switch
<pdo idx="1701">
to
<pdo idx="1600">

2. Put that right pdoentries in the 1b01 and 1701 pdos. Let's try 1. first.

 

I installed the r8125-dkms as my adapter was RTL8125
 Still no luck but the output for dmesg has changed slightly

cnc@debian:~$ sudo dmesg | tail -n20
[sudo] password for cnc: 
[ 1652.489972] EtherCAT: Requesting master 0...
[ 1652.489974] EtherCAT: Successfully requested master 0.
[ 1652.490017] EtherCAT 0: Domain0: Logical address 0x00000000, 26 byte, expected working counter 3.
[ 1652.490018] EtherCAT 0:   Datagram domain0-0-main: Logical offset 0x00000000, 26 byte, type LRW.
[ 1652.490026] EtherCAT 0: Master thread exited.
[ 1652.490027] EtherCAT 0: Starting EtherCAT-OP thread.
[ 1652.582304] EtherCAT ERROR 0-0: Failed to set SAFEOP state, slave refused state change (PREOP + ERROR).
[ 1652.583304] EtherCAT ERROR 0-0: AL status message 0x001E: "Invalid input configuration".
[ 1652.585313] EtherCAT 0-0: Acknowledged state PREOP.
[ 1688.768322] EtherCAT 0: Master thread exited.
[ 1688.768327] EtherCAT 0: Starting EtherCAT-IDLE thread.
[ 1688.768363] EtherCAT 0: Releasing master...
[ 1688.768365] EtherCAT 0: Released.
[ 1780.862489] lcec_conf[99761]: segfault at 2000000004 ip 00007f60bddcf07e sp 00007fff57a4c8b8 error 4 in libc.so.6[7f60bdc8e000+156000] likely on CPU 8 (core 10, socket 0)
[ 1780.862496] Code: 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 89 f8 09 f0 c1 e0 14 3d 00 00 00 f8 0f 87 2e 03 00 00 62 e1 fe 28 6f 0f 62 b2 75 20 26 d1 <62> f3 75 22 3f 0e 00 c5 fb 93 c9 ff c1 74 53 0f 1f 00 f3 0f bc c9
[ 2094.078796] logitech-hidpp-device 0003:046D:4023.0006: hidpp20_batterylevel_get_battery_capacity: received protocol error 0x08
[ 4407.075631] EtherCAT 0: Master thread exited.
[ 4407.075653] EtherCAT 0: Releasing main device 34:5A:60:CB:87:79.
[ 4407.112827] ec_generic: Unloading.
[ 4407.182494] EtherCAT: Master module cleaned up.

What else can I try now?
Also, I got this device description file for my drive from the manufacturer. What do I do with this?

 

Thank you Joco!

This works and I'm able to control my plasmacutter. I really like the interface.

I'm now only facing an issue loading g-code. I'm using the plasmac post processor for Sheetcam which outputs .tap files. When I load a file, I get the message “unknown word where unary operation could be”. I just assume, it has something to do with the filte section in my INI-File.

Is it possible, that the preprocessor cannot interpret my .tap. file?

like this?

What version of PathPilot are you running?  

You said you added logging, what did you do exactly?  Where was it crashing?  I assume you running PathPilot in a way that allows you to see the terminal, so you could wrap the offending areas in a try/except and print the exception to the screen when it fails.  

I would not mess with refactoring Tormach's code, that otherwise works.

@CaliusOptimus, check out the ALTAROS Automatic Turret Head:
www.altaros.cz/content/53-automatic-turret-head

CNC4XR7 on YouTube installed one and has a few videos on it.

Thanks for the reply!

Yes, it's inside the mill(TormachUIBase) class. The indentation got messed up when I copied it over, but I can assure you it's correct in the actual code because the function does work 'sometimes'.

The suggestion to keep the code concise is a good idea, but I'm hesitant to trim it down too much as this mirrors the PathPilot reset code. The last thing I'd want is to initialize one of the HAL pins correctly and that would cause even more issues. I'm really not experienced in the CNCs and have been only tinkering on and on off for about 3 years.

I tried a few cuts at 20 amps and got arc ok, but couldn't get any at 10 amps, which is fine, can't imagine needing 10 amps.
I did a fair bit of cutting at 45 amps and I did lose the arc ok signal in the middle of a cut. It was artsy text so I assume the feed was lowered automatically like it does for small holes. It only happened once, so it may be a fluke.

I have plasmac.arc-lost-delay set to .1. Should I try increasing that or is there a better solution?

I sure hope this hypertherms amp setting is more accurate than your china one, since I have no way of measuring actual amps.

Thanks for your responses! I ordered the 7i96S and the 7i84U.

Probably overkill in terms of the amount of I/O, but now I can go hog wild with panel buttons (just kidding).

Now onto picking components for the CNC lathe conversion!