Can You explain the reason, why would You want to do it this way? I think that such approach is breaking machine, it creates unnecesary loads and stresses to the construction of machine and simple switches are cheap and wiring them is easy. I think that it is trying to reinvent the wheel in some painful way. No offense, just my personal opinion :))
Viesturs 2010/6/6 sam sokolik <sa...@empirescreen.com>: > I could maybe see monitoring following error... When the servo hit the > limit - the error would increase. You could then use some logic that > says when the following error reaches a certain amount - trip the > 'virtual' limit switch. Maybe.. I could see lots of issues and as > gene says - you would want to limit the output to the servos. If you > have any I (in the pid) the pid loop will 'wind up' pretty quick sending > the servos to maximum. > > Big picture it seems possible... :) (but I am just thinking out loud) > > sam > > On 6/6/2010 11:09 AM, Neil Baylis wrote: >> Many printers& plotters do not use limit switches. Instead, they move the >> print head slowly towards the end stop until the motor stalls, and then back >> off from that point a certain distance and that's the home position or soft >> limit. >> >> What, roughly, do I need to do with EMC to get this behavior? >> >> Neil >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate >> GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the >> lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
