On 12/10/2010 06:24 AM, Dave Christman wrote: > On 12/9/2010 6:40 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: > >> Dave, >> >> When you say you are testing the X axis, are you testing it within >> the stepconf program, or with one of the GUI's up and running? >> >> Mark >> >> On 12/09/2010 06:29 AM, Dave Christman wrote: >> >>> I am trying to configure and test a 3 axis, 4 drive , machine using a >>> Gecko G540 stepper drive. I configure the machine for XYZ axis >>> configuration and slave the A and X pins (X step on pins 2 and 8, and X >>> direction on pins 3 and 9). When I test the X axis only one motor >>> operates. I know the other driver and motor are OK since they work using >>> an XYZA configuration and not slaving the drives >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >> > I didn't know it you got my response. I am testing it in step config > with motors slaved motors not mounted on the machine. I didn't want to > damage anything so I wanted to make sure everyting was working properly > before proceeding with anything else. Your help is greatly appreciated. Hi Dave,
When I started bringing my machine up with a dual stepper setup on the X axis, stepconf didn't handle that very well. There's some fine tweaking that has to be done in the hal file to ensure that the outputs for the dual setup work correctly together. If I remember right, I too wasn't able to control both drives/steppers from the test inside of stepconf. When I get home tonight, I'll try to remember to get the ini file and the hal file from my machine and get it to you. It's only a two axis machine, but there are dual steppers on the x axis, so the files may be able to help you out a bit setting yours up. One of the guys on the IRC hand coded a lot of the stuff in there to get mine to work. If you look it over, it may help you get yours set up. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
