On Thursday 16 October 2008 23:17:25 John Domville wrote: > I have read and printed the 1.3.9.3 notes, don't really understand them. > All I know is that > The default steps set up in the config wizard are all 200. (For every AXIS) > When I tell one of axis to move > 1 inch (1.000) the actual tool movement is less than half. (around .480) > That's why I arbitrarily > Plugged in twice the value to see what happened, (400) and when I cut 1 inch > again it came out around(.960) But I am told that is not the way to do it. > I need to find someone with the same 5000 series mill running the same > Sherline controller and see what his settings are. The motors I have are 1/8 > degree.
Do you have microstepping hardware and did you correctly tell stepconf the correct number of microsteps? -- Greetings Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
