Bruce Klawiter wrote: > > I tried this but as soon I run POS the numbers start scrolling on the page, > is this correct? It is SUPPOSED to just keep overwriting the same line. it may be if the terminal window is too small, it will scroll instead, or it may be a different terminal window program or a setting that is causing that. > it will even do it when the encoders are disconnected. > See a screen shot here:https://sites.google.com/site/bmklawt/home/emc2/pos > OK, you definitely have a communication problem, the one-line huge jumps in position indicate fairly frequent errors between the PPMC and the PC. > Also did a com test: https://sites.google.com/site/bmklawt/home/emc2/commtest > And, this test confirms bursts of bad communication. Are you using a cable marked as IEEE-1284 compliant? What kind of PC are you using? It it connected to a motherboard parallel port or a PCI plug-in card?
Oh, and DO NOT try to enable servo drives when the reading of encoder position has these problems. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
