Lawrence, Is this driving conventional steppers or something different. Is it a better system than microstepping?
Ian On 28/04/2011 02:59, Lawrence Glaister wrote: > Hi Mark, > I am not sure what you are referring to by the term phase drive. > I use my mill and lathe with stepgen set to stepping type 2 which is > quadrature drive ( drive waveform is identical to a quadrature encoder ) > Sometimes this mode and some of the higher stepping type modes get > referred to as phase drive. > If you need sample configs for lathe and or mill with quadrature drive, > drop me an email and I will send them along. There are very few changes > required to the sample stepper files... changing the stepping type, and > renamimg the connections from step/dir to something like phaseA/phaseB. > cheers > Lawrence > > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 09:33 +0900, Mark Thomas wrote: >> A quick question. I have EMC2 controlling 3 different machines through >> step/direction drivers I also have an older phase driver which is connected >> to a small lathe using TurboCNC I believe I have read that EMC2 will indeed >> work with phase drives but am having a hard time finding info. Any ideas on >> where to start? >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
