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Hi Kirk:

  No, I just updated firmware after tracing everything I could. ( It helped Auggie as I learned how to speed it up..). But Still I had small
period os 300ms or so of dead time. I traced packets and saw many T_SYN events.. so I updated firmware, problem went away, and motors are stable..
  System must never stop apps for more than 120ms or so.. if it does, the buffer will empty..

Art

I would have thought so, and doubted you'd have missed that one

Never though about extra in-job homing before, but now it seems pretty obvious.  It does suggest that perhaps it's worth adding the odd G28 in a post processor (after a move to safe height, been bit by that before) for longer jobs.  Hmmm...

Looking forwards to some motorless Auggying (Auggie-ing?  need some reflection on the correct expression), hope the Pokeys doesn't suffer from a pokey holiday increased delivery time, and the dramatic climatic differences between FL and here.   The other parts will be making their slow journey from the Orient, but that'll give more time to do some studying and research, plus practice holding the correct end of the soldering iron (or healing from slow learning events...).

You mentioned a router (communications, not CNC) firmware update to fix stuttering problems, guessing that had something to do with the chip on it's internal LAN ethernet switch.  Did you try connecting your pokey Pokey and computer to a separate ethernet switch (and then that switch to your Internet router) to see if that fixed it?  Maybe de-Interneting it while in use to prevent outside interference?

Kirk

Kirk:

  Nope, you can home, which is usually the point. In fact, if running  job, it may be worth stopping now and tehn to rehome and continue as that repairs any lost steps which may have occured..

Art

Mooselake wrote: Ken, I got these for Mrs. Moose a couple months ago, and she's been very happy with them.  Not hi-fi gaming speakers that'll shake the house, but it'll save the extra dollars for bigger steppers in your Auggie controlled Blidgeport conversion.

Kirk

Worth a try, got a set added to cart.

Thanks

Art, you say in the video that you can't zero axes when paused.  Does that affect re-homing when you wake up the next day and continue that 42 hour milling job, or restarting the router after a driver avoiding a wild moose takes out a power pole?

Kirk

Ken, I got these for Mrs. Moose a couple months ago, and she's been very happy with them.  Not hi-fi gaming speakers that'll shake the house, but it'll save the extra dollars for bigger steppers in your Auggie controlled Blidgeport conversion.

Kirk

OK,
I've volume full on and the sounds comes and goes but never really loud save the first minute or so.
I've had volume issues before may try a different speaker set up.

Thanks

Hi Ken:

  Seems too loud to me on my system most of the time.. one section is low, but the rest seems loud...

Art

Hi all,
Is it just my system?
Can barely hear the YouTube video it's so low all attention is required in trying to hear and none left to try and digest what is being said.

Thanks
Ken

Kirk:

  Awesome, so no problem finding out how to select the motion screen and such? Excellent.
I really needed to see how peoples machines respond to it all, its all new code, and only two
of us have ever run it really. Ill have a very interesting laser I think..  this is all very experimental,
and really pushes the envelop. Tempest of course is the planner, and its well tested overall with
many hundreds having tested it over the years. But the Gcode with scripting is all kinda new,
so it will be interesting to see what kind of use it can be put to...  as an intro to scripting its a  good tool,
combined with the screen designer one could design a control panel for near any process
and script its logic. (Or at least thats the end plan, motion and scripting are turned on, IO
is not yet turned on except by script..)

Art