[Emc-users] Latency - was Re: Which video card/driver for LinuxCNC?

2012-02-19 Thread Dropout
A quick question, does latency matter for servo drives?

Dropout.

On 2/19/2012 1:36 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote:
 2012/2/19 Alan Browningajbrowning2...@yahoo.com:
 Thanks for the quick response. So you build your machines from the ground up 
 with new componenets? Due to budget limitations I have to build things on 
 the cheap.

 2 of those machines were completely new builds, 2 were retrofits, one
 of the retrofits is my own machine, remaining are commercial services
 for customers.
 I prefer new components, where possible, but I am also very concerned
 about being as cost-effective as possible (that is why I delivered
 used monitor with one of those newly built machines). And that is why
 D525 is so attractive - for70 EUR (100 USD) it has mainboard with
 2-core CPU and also built-in video card. Add RAM, HDD and PSU to get
 working PC.
 Of course, if You already have unused PC and are building machine for
 Your own use, it is obvious to use existing hardware for multitasking
 - not only collect dust in its case, but also drive a cnc machine.

 I think that best thing to do at the moment is installing Ubuntu +
 LinuxCNC on that PC and runing latency test to find out, how is Your
 particular PC behaving and what realtime performance You can get out
 of it.

 Viesturs

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Re: [Emc-users] Latency - was Re: Which video card/driver for LinuxCNC?

2012-02-19 Thread Dropout
Thanks.

On 2/19/2012 2:51 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
 On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Dropout wrote:

 Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:45:41 -0500
 From: Dropoutdrop...@sympatico.ca
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 Subject: [Emc-users] Latency - was Re: Which video card/driver for LinuxCNC?

 A quick question, does latency matter for servo drives?

 Dropout.

 Well at some amount of latency it matters but servo systems will tolerate a
 lot more latency than software step generation will. 50 - 100 uSec of latency
 on a servo system will do little more than add a little (less than .0002
 at normal cutting speeds) noise to the control loop, but the same latency on a
 system using software step generation will likely cause stalls during rapids.

 Peter Wallace
 Mesa Electronics


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