Andy, I will slaughter a cow in your honor tomorrow. Thank you very much! On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Andy Pugh <a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > On 13 June 2010 21:48, Todd Freeman <compusl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The problem is, I have no clue how to >> configure EMC to work with this homegrown driver. I built the driver >> circuit exactly as shown, using two NTE2018's. Since this driver >> doesn't actually contain a stepper motor driver chip, but rather a >> gaggle of Darlingtons, it will not respond to the normally simple >> direction and 'go' pins, > > Indeed not, but there is a very straightforward way round that, as the > EMC steppgen function has a number of different configurations, > several of which are 4-wire pattern generators. Look at the > documentation at > http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//man/man9/stepgen.9.html > (Especially stepgen types 5, 6, and 9) > > You will have to manually edit the HAL file to use those types, but > the rest of a stepconf wizard created config should work (of course, > you will also have to assign the p-port pins) > > -- > atp > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 >
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