as always - long and painful

https://youtu.be/RErLu73-Xno

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 11:44 AM Sam Sokolik <samco...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mainly showing how low the frequency responce is...  You can already see
> the phase shifting and much faster than 1hz it gets worse plus
> attenuation...
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 11:19 AM John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sam,
>> I'm not sure what the purpose of the 1 Hz sin wave modulation is.  Why
>> and what are you trying to show with that?
>> John
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Sam Sokolik [mailto:samco...@gmail.com]
>> > Sent: November-24-20 8:21 PM
>> > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
>> > Subject: [Emc-users] Interesting observations with a cheap bob's analog
>> out.
>> >
>> > Granted..  I know these are pretty basic.  You can usually find them for
>> > under 10 dollars.  They do work quite well though.   I was working on
>> some
>> > youtube content and was goofing around with this bob and the printer
>> port.
>> > Setting up a pwmgen to test the analog out unearthed some things..
>> >
>> > -It isn't very linear.  lincurve is your friend..  It can be off by as
>> much
>> > as .5v over the range.
>> > -it is sloooowwwww.  It is most likely a simple low pass.  The photo
>> here
>> > is of a 1khz pwm signal modulated by a 1hz (yes - hz) sin wave.   You
>> can
>> > already see it is phase shifting.   10hz and it is attenuated to about
>> 2v
>> > p-p.
>> > -the pwm frequency didn't really affect the linearness or performance.
>> >
>> > http://electronicsam.com/images/greenmachine/IMG_20201124_183913.jpg
>> >
>> > one of these bobs...
>> >
>> > http://electronicsam.com/images/greenmachine/IMG_20201124_183919.jpg
>> >
>> > Still pretty cool what you can do with the printer port still ('I'm not
>> > dead yet!') and rt_preempt.  (50us base thread)  This could be why I
>> wasn't
>> > able to get a very tight spindle speed control on the little emco lathe.
>> > (I am using this bob's analog out driven from mesa pwm)  And you are
>> > certainly not going to control an analog servo with it ;)
>> >
>> > sam
>> >
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