Rainer Schmidt wrote: > Hi there > > This is my first post. My name is Rainer Schmidt and I'm from > Bloomfield, NJ. I build a 4x8 servo drivven gantry router and am > currently using Mach3 as planer and to drive my servo drives. While > having some mysterious problems I decided to give EMC a try. One > cannot have enough alternatives. > > In Mach3 I am using a hardware to generate steps and direction signals > to the servo drives. > > I read that there is a piece of Hardware doing the same thing for EMC. > If someone could give me a shopping list, that would be fantastic. I > have a rather high resolution on the axis and thus need higher pulse > rates. it owuld make me feel better if I have a reliable source for > those pulses than my PC... I ran the latency test and my Dell Optiplex > GX280 is having a feisty processor but 27-30 is to slow.... > > The problem I am having with Mach3 is that I have flat's on my > circles. And no clue where they can come from. I have no measurable > backlash and different toolpath shows no change either. So I suspect > Mach3 doing some strange stuff with the settings I applied. > > EMC to the rescue haha > > > Cheers > Rainer >
Check out pico-systems.com How are you measuring your backlash? Ed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
