Re: [Emc-developers] Hostmot 2 7I65 Encoder Mux Patch

2011-08-11 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Cliff Blackburn wrote: Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:04:45 -0700 From: Cliff Blackburn cblackb...@powertechrepairs.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-developers] Hostmot 2

Re: [Emc-developers] Hostmot 2 7I65 Encoder Mux Patch

2011-08-11 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Cliff Blackburn wrote: Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:40:30 -0700 From: Cliff Blackburn cblackb...@powertechrepairs.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Hostmot

Re: [Emc-developers] Hostmot 2 7I65 Encoder Mux Patch

2011-08-11 Thread Peter C. Wallace
2 7I65 Encoder Mux Patch On 8/11/2011 7:06 AM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Cliff Blackburn wrote: Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:40:30 -0700 From: Cliff Blackburncblackb...@powertechrepairs.com Reply-To: EMC developersemc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developersemc

Re: [Emc-developers] Preempt-RT ... where to put the patches ?

2011-07-21 Thread Peter C. Wallace
if Preempt-RT may be more flexible. Steve Stallings (unrepentant top poster) -Original Message- From: Peter C. Wallace [mailto:p...@mesanet.com] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:34 AM To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Preempt-RT ... where to put the patches ? On Wed

Re: [Emc-developers] Preempt-RT ... where to put the patches ?

2011-07-21 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Jon Elson wrote: Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:01:29 -0500 From: Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Preempt-RT ... where to put

Re: [Emc-developers] Preempt-RT ... where to put the patches ?

2011-07-21 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Brian wrote: Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:30:00 -0400 From: Brian turbo94must...@gmail.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Preempt-RT ... where to put the

Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders

2011-06-18 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Jon Elson wrote: Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:52:05 -0500 From: Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] CUI encoders Kim Kirwan wrote:

Re: [Emc-developers] Timestamp based velocity estimation. WAS: Re: Fanuc converter

2011-05-23 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 23 May 2011, Javier Ros wrote: Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 16:37:48 +0200 From: Javier Ros j...@unavarra.es To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-developers] Timestamp based velocity estimation. WAS: Re: Fanuc converter Hello, In the referred thread,

Re: [Emc-developers] Fanuc converter

2011-05-14 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 14 May 2011, Kirk Wallace wrote: Jon They must use direct drive, fast screws and very stiff mechanical structures in order to justify the high encoder resolution. On my machines, the least significant bits would be noise. -- Kirk Wallace

Re: [Emc-developers] Fanuc converter

2011-05-14 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 14 May 2011, dave wrote: Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 08:47:29 -0700 From: dave dengv...@charter.net Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Fanuc converter On Sat, 2011-05-14 at

Re: [Emc-developers] Fanuc converter

2011-04-30 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Brian wrote: Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:59:26 -0400 From: Brian turbo94must...@gmail.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Fanuc converter If the problem

Re: [Emc-developers] Fanuc converter

2011-04-29 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Jon Elson wrote: Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:24:50 -0500 From: Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Fanuc converter Peter C

Re: [Emc-developers] [PATCH] Add support for Hostmot2 Buffered SPI and the Mesa 7i65

2011-04-28 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, andy pugh wrote: Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:26:49 +0100 From: andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] [PATCH] Add support for Hostmot2

Re: [Emc-developers] [PATCH] Add support for Hostmot2 Buffered SPI and the Mesa 7i65

2011-04-28 Thread Peter C. Wallace
Buffered SPI and the Mesa 7i65 On 28 April 2011 23:24, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: Yes, you must send to receive with SPI so unless you want to duplicate the sending (Looking at the 7I43 timing I would think not) you need to reverse the normal order of read write (for SPI

Re: [Emc-developers] [PATCH] Add support for Hostmot2 Buffered SPI and the Mesa 7i65

2011-04-28 Thread Peter C. Wallace
for the moment. The jury is still out, and we're upgrading the PC, at least somewhat. Thanks very much, I look forward to hearing more on this. Kim On 04/28/2011 05:52 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, andy pugh wrote: Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:29:26 +0100 From: andy pugh

[Emc-developers] bldc comp

2011-02-10 Thread Peter C. Wallace
Looks like theres a minor startup bug in the bldc comp when using Q (thump start) mode. I'm not absolutely sure whats going on but it looks like what happens is the current is ramped as the 90 electrical degree rotate is done (which does seem to align the rotor reliably), but then when

Re: [Emc-developers] pid bug

2011-02-09 Thread Peter C. Wallace
at 11:26 PM, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: --- if ( ( tmp1 * pid-limit_state ) = 0.0 ) { +++ if ( ( tmp1 * pid-limit_state * pid-igain ) = 0.0 ) { +++ if ( ( tmp1 * pid-limit_state (pid-igain ) = 0.0 ) { Is a possible patch if negative PID values are to be allowed Based

Re: [Emc-developers] pid bug

2011-02-08 Thread Peter C. Wallace
--- if ( ( tmp1 * pid-limit_state ) = 0.0 ) { +++ if ( ( tmp1 * pid-limit_state * pid-igain ) = 0.0 ) { Is a possible patch if negative PID values are to be allowed Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics -- The ultimate

Re: [Emc-developers] pid bug

2011-02-07 Thread Peter C. Wallace
a reasonable value. 2011/2/4 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com I have an idea for a better patch to the pid comp than simply removing the if limit_state conditional around the integrator. I understand the benefit of freezing the integrator when the output is saturated. This is useful for good PID

Re: [Emc-developers] pid bug

2011-02-04 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Dave wrote: Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:48:17 -0500 From: Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] pid bug I usually see anti-windup schemes

Re: [Emc-developers] pid bug

2011-02-03 Thread Peter C. Wallace
2011 21:08:09 -0800 (PST) Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: It was pretty surprising. I was using Matt Shavers velocity mode test hal file with halrun, so the effect was not masked by a FE as it would be under EMC. If we had any integral gain and put enough load on the motor

Re: [Emc-developers] pid bug

2011-02-03 Thread Peter C. Wallace
(PST) Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: OK the first thing thats needed is to connect pid.n.enable to bldc.0.init-done so the integrator does not wind up during motor initialization. I would, but when the the bldc component is loaded with a cfg parameter that includes h (you have Hall

[Emc-developers] pid bug

2011-02-02 Thread Peter C. Wallace
It looks like the integral term has some funny problems in the pid comp. The symptom is that when the integral term causes the output to saturate, and there is no integral limit or the integral limit is MaxOutput/Igain it never recovers, and ends up driving in one direction regardless of the

Re: [Emc-developers] pid bug

2011-02-02 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Jon Elson wrote: Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:27:17 -0600 From: Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] pid bug Peter C. Wallace

Re: [Emc-developers] Hostmot2 Smart Serial (8i20 and 7i64) support patch.

2011-01-10 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, andy pugh wrote: Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:49:53 + From: andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-developers] Hostmot2 Smart Serial (8i20 and 7i64)

Re: [Emc-developers] Hostmot2 Smart Serial (8i20 and 7i64) support patch.

2011-01-10 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, andy pugh wrote: Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:49:53 + From: andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-developers] Hostmot2 Smart Serial (8i20 and 7i64)

Re: [Emc-developers] 8i20 Support Patch

2010-11-19 Thread Peter C. Wallace
C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: OK bitfile and assosciated pin file: www.mesanet.com/software/parallel/sssvst.zip Had to drop two encoder counters to fit 2 sserial channels: chan 0: tx1,rx5 chan 1: tx3,rx11 cable (standard cat5 cut in half): ch 0 ch 1 txb1 txb3 orange/white

Re: [Emc-developers] 8i20 Support Patch

2010-11-15 Thread Peter C. Wallace
OK bitfile and assosciated pin file: www.mesanet.com/software/parallel/sssvst.zip Had to drop two encoder counters to fit 2 sserial channels: chan 0: tx1,rx5 chan 1: tx3,rx11 cable (standard cat5 cut in half): ch 0 ch 1 txb1 txb3 orange/white txa1 txa3 orange rxb5 rxb11

Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver

2010-11-12 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Andy Pugh wrote: Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:34:50 + From: Andy Pugh a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.uk Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver On 12

Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver

2010-11-10 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Brian wrote: Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:29 -0500 From: Brian turbo94must...@gmail.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver BLDC and AC servos

Re: [Emc-developers] pid with derivative inputs

2010-11-01 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Jon Elson wrote: Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:13:36 -0500 From: Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] pid with derivative inputs

Re: [Emc-developers] pid with derivative inputs

2010-11-01 Thread Peter C. Wallace
Peter C. Wallace wrote: One good sanity check on the velocity output is to setup your hardware step generator for quadrature mode and set a constant velocity but randomly changing directions(and ~infinite acceleration). Another good test is just a slow velocity ramp. The advantage

Re: [Emc-developers] StepGen

2010-09-17 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Slavko Kocjancic wrote: Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:55:51 +0200 From: Slavko Kocjancic esla...@gmail.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] StepGen Hmm...

Re: [Emc-developers] StepGen

2010-09-17 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Andy Pugh wrote: Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:35:52 +0100 From: Andy Pugh a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.uk Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] StepGen On 17 September

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:46:41 +0400 From: Alexey Starikovskiy aysta...@gmail.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Peter C. Wallace wrote: Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:14:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Peter C. Wallace
Gantry Homing by Linked Joints 20.04.2010 19:30, Peter C. Wallace ??: (Syncing on index of course assuming you could not easily rack the gantry 1/2 a leadscrew turn) There is a much bigger assumption -- you are running servos, they have index, index is routed in, and index offset between

Re: [Emc-developers] EPP timeout

2010-04-01 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Slavko Kocjancic wrote: Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:25:24 +0200 From: Slavko Kocjancic esla...@gmail.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-developers] EPP timeout Hello...

Re: [Emc-developers] EPP timeout

2010-04-01 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Peter C. Wallace wrote: Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 08:34:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] EPP timeout

Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2 stepping folowing error oddity

2010-02-06 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Jeff Epler wrote: Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 18:18:51 -0600 From: Jeff Epler jep...@unpythonic.net Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2 stepping folowing

Re: [Emc-developers] Request for testers: new builds of the hostmot2 firmware images

2010-01-22 Thread Peter C. Wallace
No, unlike the 7I43, the 3X20 doesnt care about config options so this is fairly mysterious. If you point me to the bad bitfile I'll give it a try here and do some probing about. Well, turns out thats not quite true, the 3X20 doesnt care about DONE but it DOES care about the order of

Re: [Emc-developers] Request for testers: new builds of the hostmot2 firmware images

2010-01-20 Thread Peter C. Wallace
builds of the hostmot2 firmware images On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 05:29:49PM -0800, Peter C. Wallace wrote: Being unable to reconfig the FPGA usually means that the FPGA is driving some line that messes up the bridge (for example hold-holda or /ready are a couple of fatal pins if driven wrong

Re: [Emc-developers] Request for testers: new builds of the hostmot2 firmware images

2010-01-19 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:04:57 -0700 From: Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Request for

Re: [Emc-developers] [rich...@candrarthur.demon.co.uk: Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 homing index]

2009-10-19 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:04:18 -0600 From: Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers]

Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2 stepping folowing error oddity

2009-10-19 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Peter C. Wallace wrote: Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:11:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2

Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2 stepping folowing error oddity

2009-10-18 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:47:32 -0600 From: Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2

Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2 stepping folowing error oddity

2009-10-13 Thread Peter C. Wallace
stepping folowing error oddity Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Chris Morley wrote: I'm having a little problem with a hostmot2 stepper setup. I get following errors that I can't track down a reason for. Is it possible you simple dont have enough hardware headroom to reach you max

Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2 stepping folowing error oddity

2009-10-12 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Chris Morley wrote: Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:53:06 + From: Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: EMC DEV emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-developers] hostmot2 stepping folowing

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