Downdraft design questions

tommylight wrote: I blame John Oliver

JUST DO IT! hahaha ... I almost forgot about that. My favorite was Bill Maher and Ann Coulter.



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Hardcore Trumpers are trying to blame the Capitol Riot on BLM/Antifa. The MAGA lunatics beating the cop with a piece of rigid pipe flying an American flag was sad. I am not gung-ho patriotic, but that pissed me off. Those are traitors, plain and simple.

tommylight wrote: It can, but it (or should i say: they) do not ship it. I am in Kosovo, it is bloody Europe, but we are left out of everything,

I as all set to have Kosovo as the default country in the LinuxCNC Raspberry Pi SD card image as a gesture of solidarity.. But it wasn't even an option

LOL
Thanks for the effort.

rodw wrote: That was painless!

That looks right. Yes, I only did one example! The outputs may need to be different as you might already be using a pin for torch on or something.

If you upgrade linuxcnc, you may need to redo the halcompile step as the component is not native to linuxcnc.

There is also a separate zone pin that publishes a numeric number for the current zone. If you were ambitious you could modify your GUI to display the number from that pin. Or add a row of GUI LED's for each zone.

Very cool. Can't wait to see how it works for you!

Rod - After installing plasmac the downdraft solenoids are not working. In my machine ini file, in the hal section, the reference to ddraft4x2.hal was gone. I added it back in, same as it had been... now I get this error when I try to start plasmac.

twopass: Error in file ././plasmac/plasmac.tcl:
Pin 'axis.x.pos-cmd' was already linked to signal 'xpos'

Yes, Plasmac now uses hte pins we need. You need to use a postgui hal file and the signals plasmac has created in plasmac.tcl

It will be an easy fix!