Feb. 17 EMC First look

[Clint Bach <clintbach-at-earthlink.net>]

Hi everybody,

I downloaded the Feb. 17 version of EMC and loaded it up. It seems to
have  compiled and done everything OK. I have not tweaked the ini file
much yet. I just did enough to get it running... I still need to adjust
the acceleration and maximum speed and steps per inch and such.
Thunderstorms are in the area and experience says shut the computers
down!!!

The good news is that everything seems to be running well. As a test I
ran the program which sent the machine into the NaN runaway and it ran
just fine. This is a major improvement!!! 

I noticed a "suspicious" sound in the stepper motors occasionally. Like
they are hunting between steps or something else but haven't had a
chance to check into it. All in all it seems to be much better so far.

At first I couldn't get the machine to run at all... I tracked the
problem down to the simple fact that I had not plugged other end of the
parallel cable into the controller... As I say, it's not foolproof until
a fool proves it! And I'm just the fool to prove it. Does anybody else
do dumb things like that?

Clint Bach