Greetings all; I thought, while coffee is brewing, that I might add a page to the wiki, but even after setting a login name and passwd as instructed, no login or edit buttons can be found. I did not set an admin pw since it says they are 100% optional.
So whats the next step? I thought maybe it might be helpful to actually contribute instead of being such a pest, and upload some snippets of my mills .hal file that discovers the gear ratios between the index from the spindle encoder, and the a/b signals from a different, higher resolution encoder driven by the motors shaft, which by some calculator math, also scales a pyvcp tach to show the correct speeds regardless of the gear its actually in, could even be adapted to more than a two speed as long as the 'gearing' has no friction slippage, meaning either gears or timing belts. I find the gearing and the actual drive to be apparently more efficient than previously used code which seemed to peak out at about 2800 in high gear, now can reach slightly beyond 3000. The OEM spindle controller, a thyristor based design, limited the thing to 2250 in fwd, and about 1100 in reverse has long since been tossed in the parts for cannibles box. Adding a $21 1000 line encoder, directly on the rear of the motor, has made a huge difference in how well it works. Thanks everybody. Now, how do I add it to the wiki? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
