On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Jon Elson wrote:

> Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:22:22 -0500
> From: Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com>
> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
>     <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Servo tuning
> 
> Leslie Newell wrote:
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> If I set the I term any lower than 500 it takes a LONG time to have any
>> effect at all. Even with 500 it is taking several seconds to stabilise.
>>
>>
> I'm beginning to suspect there has been a change in the way PID works,
> either due to hostmot2 or
> the version of EMC you and I are using.  Do you use the normal PID
> component (loadrt pid num_chan=4)?
> Or, does hostmot2 use some different PID package?   (I've been looking
> into doing velocity estimates with a hardware+driver change, and it
> would require a different PID, as it needs to get velocity from the
> driver as opposed to calculating it by position delta each cycle).


The HostMot2 HAL file just uses the standard PID component, which is 
what makes the I term error so mysterious...

>
> Jon
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