I am planning to go to the shop tomorrow to finish comping the Cinci. I will set it up with halscope after I get it comped. I will post the results.
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 3:38 PM, John Kasunich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stuart Stevenson wrote: >> Gentlemen, >> Both my EMC machine have started faulting on a following error at >> seemingly random times. >> >> Dahlih - just this morning faulted during a cut - hadn't done this for >> a long time. >> cvs updated trunk about four weeks ago >> > > That's really strange - I don't know what to suggest. > >> Cinci - had the max FE set to .003 - went to .007 - went to .030 - >> went to .1 - runs w/o fe at .1 >> I brought up halmeter to watch the fe during the table >> movement - I never saw more than .001 > > Halmeter only updates a few times per second. Can you set up halscope? > There are pins (or maybe parameters) called axis.n.ferrror, which is > the amount of following error, and axis.n.ferrored, which is a bit that > goes true when EMC trips on excessive following error. Use the > "ferrored" pin to trigger the scope, and capture position command, > position feedback, and the ferror pin. > > If you can capture some traces, that might point us in the right > direction - could be a sudden change in command that the motors can't > follow, or an issue with feedback, or perhaps everything is fine that it > is a false trip. The traces will let us know which case we're dealing with. > >> cvs updated trunk about two weeks ago >> >> I will gladly entertain ideas. > > The faults just started in the last few days? NOT when you updated last? > > Regards, > > John Kasunich > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
