Re: [Emc-users] Help with Mesa 5i20 Card (Configuration Issues)

2006-12-15 Thread ali sayed
Hello - Its me again, still having problems ... So I got Y and Z to jog, seems like the values for FERROR for the X axis are not the same as those for Y and Z in the /etc/emc2/sample-configs/m5i20/m5i20.ini maybe that is not a big deal but I made them all the same and still no jog on X-axis, get

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa m5i20 PWM frequency ?

2006-12-15 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Jon Elson wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:26:55 -0600 > From: Jon Elson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Mesa m5i20 PWM frequency ? > > Peter C. Wallace wrote: >

Re: [Emc-users] typical ferror values ?

2006-12-15 Thread Jon Elson
Chris Radek wrote: >On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:28:47PM -0600, Jon Elson wrote: > > >>When the developers get the FF2 (acceleration feed forward) put in, it will >>help reduce the error on acceleration, too. >> >> > >John added FF2 a while back. > > Oh, well, I'm behind the times, as usual!

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa m5i20 PWM frequency ?

2006-12-15 Thread Jon Elson
Peter C. Wallace wrote: >But whats the dead time? If you are not using a closed loop current control, >(that is the controller PWM runs the HBridge directly) the dead time will >become a significant part of your 50 KHz cycle time leading to non-linearity >in PWM versus motor voltage. At least t

Re: [Emc-users] Help with Mesa 5i20 Card (Configuration Issues)

2006-12-15 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, ali sayed wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:51:31 -0800 (PST) > From: ali sayed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Help with Mesa 5i20 Card (Configuration Issues) >

[Emc-users] PID tuning help wanted... where should I start ?

2006-12-15 Thread ali sayed
Hi All - I was wondering if any one has tried using the emclog.tcl script out of 2.0.5 and this: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?PWM_Servo_Amplifiers The script does not seem to be working, maybe I need to turn on the Debug flags in the INI file ? I don't really know Tcl/Tk. I welco

Re: [Emc-users] Help with Mesa 5i20 Card (Configuration Issues)

2006-12-15 Thread ali sayed
Hi all- OK, so I think I might have found the answer in the HAL Docs ...but I welcome further input from the list members. Eric: All of this is already configured correctly in the m5i20 configuration that is included in 2.0.5, but I checked it anyway to make sure, thanks for the response. Peter

[Emc-users] E-stop circuit ?

2006-12-15 Thread Anders Wallin
Hi all, could I have some comments on the following E-stop circuit idea. The core idea emerging from thinking about this is to wire dangerous things in series(wire OR) and use the end result of this in parallel(wire AND). That way the E-stop chain is cut if device1 OR device2 OR device 3... fai

Re: [Emc-users] typical ferror values ?

2006-12-15 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:28:47PM -0600, Jon Elson wrote: > > When the developers get the FF2 (acceleration feed forward) put in, it will > help reduce the error on acceleration, too. John added FF2 a while back. - Take Sur

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa m5i20 PWM frequency ?

2006-12-15 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Jon Elson wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:08:46 -0600 > From: Jon Elson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Mesa m5i20 PWM frequency ? > > Peter C. Wallace wrote: >

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 stepper report

2006-12-15 Thread Jon Elson
Ray Henry wrote: >Halshow lists the base thread like this. > 7543 NO base-thread ( 3623, 71329 ) > >I compared the pci parport to the mobo's parport. The report from >halshow (deadly slow) shows > 7543 NO base-thread( 6796, 72359 ) > >These data suggest that the pci card requi

Re: [Emc-users] Help with Mesa 5i20 Card (Configuration Issues)

2006-12-15 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Ali, By default, do you mean you are using the configuration files in /config/m5i20, or something else? One of the things you have to do with the m5i20 board is to enable the PWM. That is found in the m5i20 configuration in the m5i20_io.hal file, here: # Connect amp enables to m5i20 dac enables l

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa m5i20 PWM frequency ?

2006-12-15 Thread Jon Elson
Peter C. Wallace wrote: >50 KHz is pretty high for PWM, as the switching losses in the HBridge go up, >and the dead time becomes more of the total cycle time. > My first cut at a PWM servo drive ran at 100 KHz, using analog components to make a velocity servo amp with the traditonal ramp generato

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Re: [Emc-users] typical ferror values ?

2006-12-15 Thread Jon Elson
Anders Wallin wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm converting my mill from steppers to servos+ballscrews and I'm >wondering what resolution encoder I will need. > >The steppers are driven by 10-microstep geckodrives, so have 2000pulses >per revolution, and the current acme-screws have a pitch of 2mm/rev. So

Re: [Emc-users] Rotating blade question

2006-12-15 Thread Steve Andrusz
I've gotten most of my issues resolve with this project, but I still have a problem homing the rotary axis. Since the normal 'writer' to the rotary axis position, stepgen.3.position-cmd, is my own routine instead of axis.3.motor-pos-cmd, the routines in AXIS/emc don't work. It requires rea

Re: [Emc-users] Help with Mesa 5i20 Card (Configuration Issues)

2006-12-15 Thread ali sayed
Hi - Thanks for the response ... What I meant was that the power is conncted to the 7i30 motor power connector and it is turned on. The +5V for the encoders comes from the 50 pin connector and that is why the encoders will always have power. So yes the power to the motors is on but the PWM sign

Re: [Emc-users] Help with Mesa 5i20 Card (Configuration Issues)

2006-12-15 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, ali sayed wrote: > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:13:31 -0800 (PST) > From: ali sayed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Emc-users] Help with Mesa 5i20 Card (Configuration Issues) > > Hi All

Re: [Emc-users] AXIS download problem

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Epler
If you are using an Ubuntu system, you can get the source for the version of AXIS shipped with emc 2.0.5 with apt: apt-get source emc2-axis If you are not using an Ubuntu system, you can get it in tar form: http://linuxcnc.org/emc2/dists/dapper/emc2/source/emc2-axis_1.4a0-0.2.tar.gz As Al

Re: [Emc-users] AXIS download problem

2006-12-15 Thread Alex Joni
Hello, you are downloading the version 2.0.5 from CVS. However AXIS was added later to the emc2 CVS. You can get that by changing to: cvs -z5 -d:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs co -rv2_1_branch -d emc2-2.0.5 emc2 Warning: that is not a production ready branch. It still needs testing before we will

[Emc-users] AXIS download problem

2006-12-15 Thread MichaƂ Geszkiewicz
Hello everyone, I have strange problem that I can download emc2 but there is no axis code in directory. There was written that AXIS is in EMC2 source code directory. What I'm doing wrong ? cvs -z5 -d:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs co -rRELEASE_2_0_5 -d emc2-2.0.5 emc2 Greets Michael ---