Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference

2008-04-22 Thread Kenneth Lerman
of two is generally easy. A factor of five or ten isn't unusual. Ken - Original Message - From: Jon Elson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference

2008-04-22 Thread Andre' Blanchard
At 07:35 AM 4/22/2008, you wrote: To the best of my knowledge, there has been no attempt to optimize the performance of the interpreter. If there is strong feeling that this might be a problem, I suspect that it could be improved significantly. My general experience with products that have never

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference

2008-04-22 Thread John Kasunich
Jon Elson wrote: At the request of a potential customer, I did some performance tests with EMC2. I created a program with 1 blocks like N123456 G01 F30 X1. Y0. with the coordinates working around a 2 diameter circle. Each chord is roughly 0.0006 long. I ran it with the

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference

2008-04-22 Thread sam sokolik
I made this program http://pastebin.ca/993663 (same thing I think as Jon made) I ran it on the live cd (hardy is all I have handy at the moment) on a dual core 2.2ghz. (not the greatest latency - around 20us. Anyway.. With the default stepper_inch.ini - acceleration set to 20In/s/s the

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference

2008-04-22 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference At 07:35 AM 4/22/2008, you wrote: To the best of my knowledge, there has been no attempt to optimize the performance of the interpreter. If there is strong feeling that this might be a problem, I suspect that it could

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference

2008-04-21 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:42:31PM -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote: I got the spindle VFD working on my Shizuoka and the speed varies quite a bit. This seems to be due to interference coming from the spindle motor leads. The cable has no shielding but there are six wires. One for each phase, and

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference

2008-04-21 Thread rehenry
through the metal of the machine as well as the radiated power signals that you are trying to eliminate. Rayh --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kirk Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] VFD Interference Date: Sun

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference

2008-04-21 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 18:14 +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: ... snip You could measure resistance across two phases, and compare with resistance from one phase to the star point. (A needle poked through the insulation is an alternative to ruining the neat job, if the pinhole is insulated

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference

2008-04-21 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 05:52 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kirk One needs to be just a bit careful about grounding these sorts of shielding -- if that is what's going on. I recommend star or single point grounding where only one end of the shielding is connected to the frame. If

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference

2008-04-21 Thread Jon Elson
Erik Christiansen wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:42:31PM -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote: I got the spindle VFD working on my Shizuoka and the speed varies quite a bit. This seems to be due to interference coming from the spindle motor leads. The cable has no shielding but there are six wires. One

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference

2008-04-21 Thread Gene Heskett
Subject: [Emc-users] VFD Interference Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:42:31 -0700 I got the spindle VFD working on my Shizuoka and the speed varies quite a bit. This seems to be due to interference coming from the spindle motor leads. The cable has no shielding but there are six wires. One for each phase

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference

2008-04-21 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Kirk Wallace wrote: Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:08:37 -0700 From: Kirk Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] VFD Interference

2008-04-21 Thread Jon Elson
At the request of a potential customer, I did some performance tests with EMC2. I created a program with 1 blocks like N123456 G01 F30 X1. Y0. with the coordinates working around a 2 diameter circle. Each chord is roughly 0.0006 long. I ran it with the feedrate at 30 and 60 IPM, no

[Emc-users] VFD Interference

2008-04-20 Thread Kirk Wallace
I got the spindle VFD working on my Shizuoka and the speed varies quite a bit. This seems to be due to interference coming from the spindle motor leads. The cable has no shielding but there are six wires. One for each phase, and three more that seem to connect together at the motor end, but not to