I'm thinking more about manual gear changes. Thinking about two parts to it -- one a user-space program similar to hal_manualtoolchange which runs in the background until needed, and the other a hal component running in the servo-loop.
The user program would receive an array of gear ratios and motor speed changes from the ini file, and it would look for spindle speed changes from axis. When one is seen, it would determine the needed gearbox setting and motor speed. If needed it would set the appropriate hal pins to stop the spindle, display a dialog for the operator to change gears, then set needed hal pins with the new motor speed, active gear ratio, etc. The servo-loop hal component would do any needed scaling, monitor the motor speed and direction, and set the at-speed indication. In my case there is an encoder on the motor but not the spindle, so it would scale the encoder speed and position outputs by the gear ratio. I have no problem writing the code for these. But does anyone see any gotchas before I dive into this? Thanks. Karl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
