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

2010-06-20 Thread Andy Pugh
On 20 June 2010 02:56, Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: Very interesting.  I have been fighting with a following error that I get for no apparent reason.  I thought for a while that my ways were sticking or something. If this is a stepper config, without encoders, then the chances of there

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

2010-06-19 Thread Chris Morley
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:40:02 -0600 From: s...@highlab.com To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2 stepping folowing error oddity Chris Morley wrote: I'm having a little problem with a hostmot2 stepper setup. I get following errors that I

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

2010-06-19 Thread Tom Easterday
On Jun 19, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Chris Morley wrote: Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:40:02 -0600 From: s...@highlab.com To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2 stepping folowing error oddity Chris Morley wrote: I'm having a little problem

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

2010-06-19 Thread Chris Morley
Very interesting. I have been fighting with a following error that I get for no apparent reason. I thought for a while that my ways were sticking or something. For me it happens mostly on my X axis but sometimes on my Z as well. It is sporadic and when it errors, I have to try turning on

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] hostmot2 stepping folowing error oddity

2009-10-20 Thread Mario.
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2 stepping folowing error oddity 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

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

2009-10-19 Thread Peter C. Wallace
-developers] hostmot2 stepping folowing error oddity Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: So... If the human asks for (for example) 1 microsecond StepLen+StepSpace, and the driver thinks the stepgen clock runs at 33,000,000 ticks/second, then it's going to ask for 33 ticks. But if the stepgen clock

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

2009-10-18 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Chris Morley wrote: I switched to the .8 max velocity. It still errors. It is still magnitudes worse in the negative direction. I didn't have time to make scope screenshots nor test very much. I can tomorrow if you would like. I'm seeing something fishy here too, with ferrors when the

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

2009-10-18 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: So... If the human asks for (for example) 1 microsecond StepLen+StepSpace, and the driver thinks the stepgen clock runs at 33,000,000 ticks/second, then it's going to ask for 33 ticks. But if the stepgen clock in reality runs at 30 MHz, then those 33 ticks will

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

2009-10-18 Thread Peter C. Wallace
stepping folowing error oddity Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: So... If the human asks for (for example) 1 microsecond StepLen+StepSpace, and the driver thinks the stepgen clock runs at 33,000,000 ticks/second, then it's going to ask for 33 ticks. But if the stepgen clock in reality runs at 30 MHz

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

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:21:00AM +, Chris Morley wrote: No I can jog in negative direction stop before it errors and jog again (meaning there will be no direction change) and it will error. It is always worse in the neg. direction. I think the assumption that there will be no

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

2009-10-13 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:48:09AM -0500, Chris Radek wrote: I think the assumption that there will be no direction change in this case is not right. I have noticed that the software stepgen will prefer direction set one way while idle and it will always do that. I think the Mesa stepgen is a

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

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Morley
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:06:00 -0700 From: p...@mesanet.com To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2 stepping folowing error oddity On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:57:34 -0600 From: Sebastian

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

2009-10-13 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Peter C. Wallace wrote: At the lowest (hardware) level, the stepgen will not run faster than 1/(StepLen+StepSpace) regardless of whats programmed in the velocity register. one level above that the HostMot2 driver will not use a velocity greater than .maxvel. If ..maxvel is set to 0

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

2009-10-12 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
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. Interestingly while watching the following error on halmeter I can see that the error is way worse in the negative direction then the positve direction.

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

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Morley
Strange! Are you on the master branch? There were some bad hm2 stepgen ferror problems in early 2.3 releases. The latest official 2.3 release and the current trunk/master branch have all the fixes. Yes I am using master. I have last pulled as of yesterday. from dmesg hm2 driver

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

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

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Morley
Is it possible you simple dont have enough hardware headroom to reach you max velocity? With 200 usec StepLen and 200 uSec StepSpace, the maximum step rate the hardware can generate is = ~2500 Hz, I just glanced at the ini file but doesn't a Scale of 2800 mean 2800 steps per inch? If

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

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:59:05AM +, Chris Morley wrote: yes 2800 steps per inch. I don't doubt your math. You would think it should error all the time. but running in the negative direction is definitely worse then positive. I bet it has to wait for a direction change, so it starts out

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

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Morley
yes 2800 steps per inch. I don't doubt your math. You would think it should error all the time. but running in the negative direction is definitely worse then positive. I bet it has to wait for a direction change, so it starts out further behind. No I can jog in negative direction

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

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Morley
I wouldn't think that should make a difference. and why would jogging (at say 25 ipm) be worse then G0 moves at 100 ipm How is jogging planning different from G0 moves ? Acceleration is higher. Program G61 to get full acceleration on a G0 move. But why would the cruise phase on a