Dave Engvall wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anyone using the motenc either 8 channel or 4 channel with > emc 2.2.2? > > I'm trying to bring up a system after installing off the Live CD and > cannot establish that the index pulse is getting to the software. > I've tried both halmeter and halscope on the encoder index and > encoder index enable pins and nothing seems to change. I tracked it > for about 3 t of the ballscrew(encoder).
I'm not sure if the index HAL pin is supposed to be a copy of the hardware index pin or not - that pin isn't part of the canonical encoder interface and does whatever the driver writer had in mind a the time. The index-enable HAL pin is bidirectional - you need to set it true, then the driver will set it false (and reset the counter) on the next index pulse. If index-enable is false, the driver does nothing at all when it sees an index pulse. > The pulse shows as about 2 mS wide at 4 ipm so it is there. Looks > good at both Z and not-Z on the encoder plug to the breakout board. > > Comments, ideas, experience, etc. would be appreciated. Regards, John Kasunich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. 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
