Greetings, Andy in particular;

I hacked up a .hal file with lincurve spliced in between the pid and pwmgen 
modules, and did a bit of preliminary tuning today, making what I'd say was 
good progress,

I first tried the buildout resistor in series with the control voltage, but 
soon found that this controller has a relatively low impedance input, 
however a 3.3k did seem to help, at the expense of about 25% of the top 
speed.  So I took that out and installed lincurve.  That, if setup at a 
personality=15, sure takes a bunch of setp's, but I'm halfway there on the 
2nd iteration. Its actually usable now.

So I finished up the top of the box holding it all on the rear of the 
lathe, making it mostly swarf proof.  I'll turn off the pid feedbacks so I 
can get stable readings out of halmeter tomorrow, then tweak as I go, using 
60 rpm as the slowest speed.

Thank you for that suggestion.

I had to back away from the 2.6.0-pre version though as the repo was still 
broken yet at about 13:00 today, preventing me from installing the 
linuxcnc-dev package, so now both machines are on the 2.5.2 branch again.

I did have one weird malfunction, I stopped it from wide open and could not 
restart the spindle, looking at the stuff I interlock with the spindle "on" 
to keep it from issuing a reverse (or fwd) again until it has fully 
stopped, I apparently hit that magic state where the one shot never timed 
out, locking out the flipflop that actually allows it to start.  I reached 
up and turned the chuck a few degrees, creating a few pulses out of the 
encoder, one phase of which drives this oneshot, and it then took right 
off, and I haven't been able to duplicate it again.  Is is possible the 
oneshot will not time out if its trigger is true?  But since that is true 
50% of the time if it stops at a random position, so that should hit 50% of 
the time, which squashes that line of thought.  A nilmerg?

Cheers, Gene
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