On Tuesday 27 December 2016 16:01:59 andy pugh wrote:

> On 27 December 2016 at 20:07, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> > Every piece of docs I have on that module must be accessed using an
> > underscore, but in the manpage/docs, I now see that all the examples
> > do use a hyphen. There should, if thats the case, be more
> > consistency.
>
> There is a consistently inconsistent consistency about HAL modules,
> they all use an underscore in the filename and hyphens in the pin
> names and function names.
>
> (With two exceptions, opto_ac5 and xhc-hb04)

A detail that in a decade or so, I hadn't committed to wet ram. My bad , 
Andy, so I fixed that, and restored the defaults for that file, but 
disconnected the link that disables the machine, so I could play a 
little. Down at the bottom of that file, at the net watchdog line, I 
disconnected estop-latch.0.fault-in from the watchdog label. And since 
the manpage says that ok-in must be true, I put in a setp to do that 
because it needs all three conditions good before it resets. I cannot 
find the left "power" button status anyplace with a halmeter.  The 
iocontrol,0,user-request-enable, is not resetting the watchdog, and 
while you can dance on the power button, it will only stay off for a few 
hundred milliseconds. Something is turning it back on.

I have now looked at the spi bus, all 4 signals, and its quite clean, 
with a baud rate of 32 megahertz!  Its doing the clocking in 4, 8 bit 
bytes each time, but the latency wobble between the 4 byte packets is 
quite noticeable on the scope.

I only have the z motor running, but its erratic, you can definitely hear 
the horrible latency, and creeping along at 3"/minute, it will take off 
and run about 4" as fast as can be, but the dro doesn't track it well.

So, while the bus looks great on the scope, it is still making some 
errors. I think... It looks like I could put the 7i90 in 3.3 volt 
compatibility mode without a stray signal blowing the fpga.

Even with the noise gone, the backplot may suddenly draw an angled yellow 
line 2 or 5 feet offscreen, and rarely now the encoder velocity will 
still report several thousand spindle revs for a second or so. Flip a 
coin for direction.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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