Dustin Monroe wrote: > I tuned the drives to the best of my ability, from what i understood > from the manual. I set all the pots to zero and put the amp in > tachometer mode, adjusted the offset pot until the motor stopped > rotating ( except the mentioned creep) and then adjusted the loop gain > until there was oscillation and backed it off 1-2 turns. This is as far > as I have been able to progress, none of the PID settings in emc seem > to make any difference in the following error. I attempted Daves > suggestions without any luck. > Oh, there is much more to it than this. You have to tune the dynamic performance of the servo amp before you can do much with EMC adjustments. Unfortunately, tuning an analog servo amp is not simple, and almost impossible without some basic electronic instruments to stimulate the servo and then record the response.
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