On Oct 15, 2011, at 7:29 PM, "Peter C. Wallace" <p...@mesanet.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, Tom Easterday wrote:
> 
>> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:28:19 -0400
>> From: Tom Easterday <tom-...@bgp.nu>
>> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
>>   <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] config without encoders
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 15, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Dave wrote:
>> 
>>> Tom,
>>> 
>>> I'm running a couple of stepgens via a 5i20 card on one machine and it
>>> is running much faster than what you are and I am not seeing overshoot
>>> problems.
>>> 
>>> I suspect your Max_accel below is lower than the accel values you have
>>> set in the INI file so you are telling the stepgen to go faster than
>>> what you have limited it to below.
>>> 
>>> Try entering some large values below directly for max accel and max
>>> velocity and see if your problem doesn't go away.   That way the stepgen
>>> will not attempt to limit the velocity of accel.
>>> 
>> 
>> The values below just reference the ini.  For max accel and max vel the ini 
>> values are:
>> 
>> MAX_VELOCITY = 39
>> MAX_ACCELERATION = 120
>> 
>> Though we have also tried much lower values like 80 and 50 for acceleration.
>> 
>> -Tom
>> 
>>> Dave
> 
> 
> Whats is the stepgen max velocity set for? This needs the 10% overhead abouve 
> your actual maximum speed

I don't think we have stepgen max velocity set.  I do think we have stepgen max 
accel set to a number at least 10% above max accel.  Is this the 10% you are 
referring to in your last message?  Or was it for steplen and stepspace?

Tom

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