Thanks Lawrence, I know that it has been operating in half-step mode. I've asked the manufacturer to send me a spec sheet to see if I can get to the bottom of which type to use. I seem to remember (it was more than ten years ago) that there were four phases per motor when in half-step mode.
Cheers, Mark On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:59:58 -0700 Lawrence Glaister <[email protected]> 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? > > > > -- > > ===================================================================== > Lawrence Glaister VE7IT mailto:[email protected] > 1462 Madrona Drive > Nanoose Bay, B.C. http://members.shaw.ca/swstuff > Canada V9P 9C9 http://gspy.sourceforge.net > ===================================================================== > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > -- Mark Thomas <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
