coolant mist pulses
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I've been looking around the forum for the possibility of having the coolant turn on and off every X seconds.
The information I've found is pretty confusing for me.... I'd really appreciate your help once again.
I hope I'm not too annoying asking about every thing I come across.
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linuxcnc.org/docs/2.9/html/man/man9/siggen.9.html
it will do the same time on and off, so might not be exactly what you want, ex. at 0.5Hz it will do 1sec on and 1sec off.
There are other ways also, so we need to know if you do need separate times for on and off.
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and drive the oneshot component with the siggen clock pin, then set the on time
with the onseshot width pin.
The oneshot component has a reset input that could be used for enabling
the output with the coolant-on signal
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Can it be adapted to the parallel port?
I thank you very much for the help but I'm such a newbie that everything sounds like Chinese to me T_T
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something like this:
loadrt siggen
addf siggen.0.update servo-thread
setp siggen.0.frequency .1 # 10 second period)
loadrt oneshot
addf oneshot.0 servo-thread
setp oneshot.0.width 2 # 2 second on time
loadrt not
addf not.0 servo-thread
net cool-trigger siggen.0.clock oneshot.0.in
net coolant-out oneshot.0.out [some_parallel_port_pin]
net coolant-on not.0.in
net gate-coolant not.0.out oneshot.0.reset siggen.0.reset # when coolant is off, reset both siggen and oneshot
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Tried to test it but received an error. If I remove the lines that I have added in hal linuxcnc starts normallyYes, all this will work on a parallel port.
something like this:
loadrt siggen
addf siggen.0.update servo-thread
setp siggen.0.frequency .1 # 10 second period)
loadrt oneshot
addf oneshot.0 servo-thread
setp oneshot.0.width 2 # 2 second on time
loadrt not
addf not.0 servo-thread
net cool-trigger siggen.0.clock oneshot.0.in
net coolant-out oneshot.0.out [some_parallel_port_pin]
net coolant-on not.0.in
net gate-coolant not.0.out oneshot.0.reset siggen.0.reset # when coolant is off, reset both siggen and oneshot
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[qtpyvcp.app.launcher][[36mINFO[0m] Loading POSTGUI_HALFILE: /home/ismael/linuxcnc/configs/Fresadora1/probe_basic_postgui1.hal (launcher.py:96)
not: already exists
Make sure you don't have another 'addf not.0 servo-thread' in your 'probe_basic_postgui1.hal'. If you do you need to use another number (eg 'not.1')
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