Thanks. On 2/19/2012 2:51 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Dropout wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:45:41 -0500 >> From: Dropout<drop...@sympatico.ca> >> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" >> <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"<emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Subject: [Emc-users] Latency - was Re: Which video card/driver for LinuxCNC? >> >> A quick question, does latency matter for servo drives? > > Dropout. > > Well at some amount of latency it matters but servo systems will tolerate a > lot more latency than software step generation will. 50 - 100 uSec of latency > on a servo system will do little more than add a little (less than .0002" > at normal cutting speeds) noise to the control loop, but the same latency on a > system using software step generation will likely cause stalls during rapids. > > Peter Wallace > Mesa Electronics > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization& Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >
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