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A Beckhoff EL3162 has 2 channels of 0-10 volt input with 500v isolation from the Ethercat bus. This could replace 2 THCAD's without worrying about needing encoder inputs.

I don't understand why people want to mix MESA and Ethercat systems even though it can be done.

I would just like to express my gratitude & thanks to PCW.
The answers & helps he gives to Mesa customers is fantastic. What really humbles me is the help he has given me to some of my off brand projects using Spartan 6 dev boards and hostmot2 firmware sources. And also the others that go down this path.
A true gent. The forum is so much richer for his help & patience.

Cheers
Rob

Works fine.

Sometimes I just have to manually delete the ARP entry for 192.168.1.121

Testing isn't ideal ATM, ping times from the laptop to the card is bad due to having to go through 2 switches (0.244ms best). Setting the MAC works, good ole' 00:de:ad:be:ef:03 that I picked up from a netware 4 instructor.

I'll have to connect things properly & do some testing.

Once again thanks for all the help.

I just updated my plasma to 2.10 so that will be fine.
Take your time, so far I'm liking the improvements you contributed to QtPlasmaC. It's been awhile since I had last updated, so now I'm trying to catch up!

Easiest way would be to make another config.
leave the old one for when you need position.

In the new config change the A to be a spindle.

Lookup step and direction spindle for examples. If you dont want to mess with it I could do it for you.

Then it should work as you intend with me s1000 $1

I’ve had a similar thought in the past, with regard to speeding things up.  I was thinking of automatically compensating the probe height based on material thickness, as you said, added to the material fields.

I like the idea, and since someone has officially asked for it, I’ll start looking into making it happen.

Give me some time, I’ll let you know when it’s ready for you to try out.  It will be added to 2.10 by the way.  

I think that message usually means some issue with the script
 I get:

peter@peter-HP-EliteDesk-800-G1-USDT:~/Downloads$ ./getmac
Old MAC Addr: 00601B168000

peter@peter-HP-EliteDesk-800-G1-USDT:~/Downloads$ ./newmac
Old MAC Addr: 00601B168000
New MAC Addr: 00601B160801

Reseting Ethernet CPU
waiting for reset
Old MAC Addr: 00601B160801

what does

./setmac

reply

it should be

peter@peter-HP-EliteDesk-800-G1-USDT:~/Downloads$ ./setmac

Interface not in Environment



 

./newmac: line 8: ./setmac: Text file busy
Reseting Ethernet CPU
waiting for reset
./newmac: line 14: ./setmac: Text file busy


Is that a worry ? Or is that due to network latency ?
Board is behind a switch and I'm working on a laptop connect via wifi, I can ping and readhmid with mesa flash ok

I used ./setmac 00123456789A in the script

Dumb me I should have sourced the file. All is good.

12 hex characters (this is from an initialization script so the
last three characters (the $1) are supplied on the command line

that is:

./setmac 00123456789A

etc

Note that "00601B" is Mesas range

Wow thanks Pete, was just thinking about how to do this. I really think I owe you a few beers.

Another question, if I may.
[/code]./setmac 00601B168$1/[code]

What's the format for the MAC ?

Post your var file

Is it the same if you just install the ready apt package with ethercat instead of building ethercat master yourself?

Apparently it was this: forum.linuxcnc.org/10-advanced-configura...ives-ethercat#315703

The PID has changed.

Yes, you would need two NICs
 

Hello 
I have managed to get a few motors running with etherCAT, but I still need a simple I/O system with analog out and encoder input, to use a mesa THCAD.

How is it feasible? Do I need a dual Ethernet card? 
The PCs I’m using have a single Ethernet port, so to run both mesa and ethercat I will need another Ethernet system, to have different NICs, right?

thank you.