Nicklas, hello
On 01/03/17 04:17, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > I made local change to the hostmot2 stepper drivers to both send and receive > absolute position encoder style. Behaviour could be changed with > configuration parameter. do i think correctly ? the stepper gets position commands, not step & dir ? > The change is simple but I am still thinking about protocol because with > interpolated position mode there is a need to set parameters. I read Profibus > use same protocol on all media but it may be a little bit to complex and I do > not know about parameters. does 'interpolated position mode' mean the position commands are delta? dx dy dz commands > CANopen have a dictionary which may be used for parameters and PDOs for real > time data but I do not know if it is a good idea to use on other media. Via > TCP/IP telnet may actually be a simple method to implement set parameters or > a web server but a standard industrial protocol used with ordinary > configuration tools are probably better. > new type drivers using 'standard ... protocols.. . with ordinary configuration tools' is of benefit to larger non-edm audience thanks tomp tjtr33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
