Re: [Emc-users] Slides, Endoders and Resulotion

2007-12-07 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 23:01 -0500, xtra209 wrote: I checked out some treadmill motors rescued from defunct treadmills and discovered they are really not reversible. Mine will run in both directions but one direction the armature arcs more than the other direction. A closer investigation of

Re: [Emc-users] Slides, Endoders and Resulotion

2007-12-07 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 14:08 -0800, Peter C. Wallace wrote: What is your deadzone? ... snip If you mean deadband, I have it set to 1e-05. I set it to 1e-04 and 1e-06 which had no effect. You need to set it to 3E-03 to get it above your stated backlash. (You can try

[Emc-users] Slides, Endoders and Resulotion

2007-12-06 Thread Kirk Wallace
I got the first pass on my Bridgeport X axis working and I am having trouble with tuning. I am using a brushed DC motor with a 3:1 belt ratio between the motor and ballscrew. The motor is driven by a Pico PWM amp and controlled by a Pico UPC and EMC 2.1.7. Because a glass slide was already

Re: [Emc-users] Slides, Endoders and Resulotion

2007-12-06 Thread Peter C. Wallace
] Slides, Endoders and Resulotion I got the first pass on my Bridgeport X axis working and I am having trouble with tuning. I am using a brushed DC motor with a 3:1 belt ratio between the motor and ballscrew. The motor is driven by a Pico PWM amp and controlled by a Pico UPC and EMC 2.1.7. Because

Re: [Emc-users] Slides, Endoders and Resulotion

2007-12-06 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: I got the first pass on my Bridgeport X axis working and I am having trouble with tuning. I am using a brushed DC motor with a 3:1 belt ratio between the motor and ballscrew. The motor is driven by a Pico PWM amp and controlled by a Pico UPC and EMC 2.1.7. Because a glass

Re: [Emc-users] Slides, Endoders and Resulotion

2007-12-06 Thread xtra209
I checked out some treadmill motors rescued from defunct treadmills and discovered they are really not reversible. Mine will run in both directions but one direction the armature arcs more than the other direction. A closer investigation of the motor showed that the brushes contact the

Re: [Emc-users] Slides, Endoders and Resulotion

2007-12-06 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:22:15PM -0800, Dave Engvall wrote: Having said that it would be most interesting to have a system that used the information from both a linear scale and an encoder on the ball screw. I'll let the really bright guys dope out how to make that work. ;-) If

Re: [Emc-users] Slides, Endoders and Resulotion

2007-12-06 Thread Dave Engvall
On Dec 6, 2007, at 6:56 PM, Jon Elson wrote: Kirk Wallace wrote: I got the first pass on my Bridgeport X axis working and I am having trouble with tuning. I am using a brushed DC motor with a 3:1 belt ratio between the motor and ballscrew. The motor is driven by a Pico PWM amp and

Re: [Emc-users] Slides, Endoders and Resulotion

2007-12-06 Thread John Kasunich
Dave Engvall wrote: Having said that it would be most interesting to have a system that used the information from both a linear scale and an encoder on the ball screw. I'll let the really bright guys dope out how to make that work. ;-) Since EMC's PID loop is now part of HAL and

Re: [Emc-users] Slides, Endoders and Resulotion

2007-12-06 Thread Kirk Wallace
(EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] Slides, Endoders and Resulotion I got the first pass on my Bridgeport X axis working and I am having ... snip controller. Is there a way to cater to both? One way is to use dual feedback, Dont know if EMC supports