2012/2/13 Tom Easterday <[email protected]>:
> Peter Jensen and I have posted a wiki page documenting our build of a 
> trivkins based gantry-style plasma machine running Linuxcnc with Gladevcp  
> (as well as pyvcp), constructed over the last year.   I linked the page to 
> the "User Configurations" section of the main page 
> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxCNCKnowledgeBase page.  I hope 
> that was the right thing to do.  Comments welcome.
>
> wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GantryPlasmaMachine

1) Tom, the THC part seems incredible!
And it rises a lot of questions because in Your HAL file You have:
# Load realtime hal components for THC
loadrt mux2     count=19
loadrt mux8     count=14
loadrt sum2     count=14
loadrt comp     count=15
loadrt limit3step   count=14
loadrt ddt      count=14
loadrt minmax   count=14
loadrt not      count=14
loadrt mult2    count=14
loadrt hypot    count=14
loadrt and2     count=14
loadrt debounce cfg=1

In wiki I did not see any file for a diagram, but HAL file comment says:
# Define Singals (see block diagram for comments)

Any chance You might share something, because now I do not see a
chance to understand the logics, how is all the THC thing working.

2) I have another 2 questions about the servo motors. Do I understand
correctly from the link in wiki page that You have brushed DC servo
motors? And what is approximate travel distance on x and y joints for
a full turn of motor?

3) Any particular reason to run the servo drives in step/dir mode? In
Granite Devices homepage I see that the drives accept also pwm signal,
which can be created in Mesa card just as easily as step signals.

Thanks and congratulations on finishing such a nice and pretty
sophisticated project!

Viesturs

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