Kirk, > The C11 document specifies three power supplies. One computer side +5V, > one CNC side +5V @ 2A and One CNC side +12V @ 300mA. I would think if > you have satisfied these specifications, you should be okay. 12V should > have enough headroom to regulate to 10 V and the VFD should only draw a > few milliamperes at worst. Ops I forgot, you are going into the Sherline > speed control, so I don't know what it draws. It shouldn't be drawing > much anyway. You may want to make sure you are getting at least 22kHz
We need a separate supply: the analog voltage controller on the C11 is isolated from the other circuitry because in the case of the sherline, the speed control voltage is connected to the live mains. > (24kHz - ~10%) into the C11. You could setup HALscope to look at the > siggen output and count the rising edges over a time period. If you are > running siggen in the servo thread, my guess is that, you will only get > into the 2kHz range. With my DAC project, I have just run into "FP > needed" errors and computer lockups while trying to run HAL components > in the base thread, so I need to learn more about what will run in the > base thread. pwmgen will, but I don't know enough to guess at how to > make it act like a variable frequency pulse generator. Another thought > comes to mind. If you are only getting 2kHz out of siggen then maybe you > could step up the frequency with a PLL. I have never used a PLL, but I > think this is what they are supposed to do. Ideally, it would be nice to > have a pulse generator HAL component. With the proper knowledge, I > suppose it would not be too difficult to make, but that is like saying, > if I had enough money, I'd be rich. > At 400Hz I get the max voltage out of the analog voltage part. So this is ok. I'll try with stepgen just to know if this works. Geert ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users