Jeff Epler wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:55:07AM -0400, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote:
>  
>
>>It's hard to tell what the "ideal" base period is.  Stepconf is probably 
>>choosing something that will work for whatever scaling and max 
>>velocities you've chosen.  I don't know if it takes PWM 
>>period/resolution into account when choosing the BASE_PERIOD though.  
>>    
>>
>
>Presently, stepconf only considers step rate when choosing BASE_PERIOD.
>Ideally, PWM output and spindle encoder input would also figure into the
>calculation.  I'm happy to take a look at patches intended to improve
>this.  Look for 'def ideal_period' in stepconf.py for the place to add
>these calculations.
>  
>
Thanks for the pointer.  This may be something easy enough for even me 
to do (in Python :) )

- Steve


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