Re: [Emc-users] Stepper motor setup and test

2009-09-11 Thread Ian R Upton
Gentlefolk, Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. Back looking at the basics. How do I know the motor is 50 steps/rev??? The motor is an Epson EM-257 which I have not been able to find much about on the Internet. I held the shaft of the motor and rotated it carefully. 50 steps (harder

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper motor setup and test

2009-09-11 Thread Yann Jautard
- Ian R Upton upt...@pacific.net.au a écrit : Gentlefolk, Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. Back looking at the basics. How do I know the motor is 50 steps/rev??? The motor is an Epson EM-257 which I have not been able to find much about on the Internet. I held the

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper motor setup and test

2009-09-11 Thread Ian R Upton
Gentlefolk, I added a pointer to the shaft of the motor (like a clock hand) so I could see what the motor was doing. I then set the current and acceleration values. I then ran a series of tests at various steps/rev and fiddled the velocity until I could get stable performance (consistent

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper motor setup and test

2009-09-11 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Stick something on the stepper shaft to be used as a pointer (a triangular piece of paper) and then tell it to move 200 steps. If it moves a complete revolution, you're done. Other wise try some other common values, 50, 400. -Original Message- From: Ian R Upton

Re: [Emc-users] G33 tapers

2009-09-11 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 08:31:24AM +0100, Steve Blackmore wrote: O118 if [#104 LE [2*#102]] O119 if [#102 GT #116] #102 = [#104/2] O119 endif O118 endif are totally meaningless unless you're a programmer. They're also meaningless to this

Re: [Emc-users] G33 tapers

2009-09-11 Thread Andy Pugh
2009/9/11 Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net: Meaningful variable names are the first to fifth rules of programming. Even assembler language, in the depths of last century, had 'em. No it didn't! (though some assemblers might have implemented labels, I suppose) (I remember programming

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper motor setup and test

2009-09-11 Thread Kenneth Lerman
A 200 step motor is a good thing if you have a five pitch lead screw (like on a Bridgeport milling machine) and you want each step to be a thousandth of an inch. That's particularly true if you were back in the days of paper tape and minimal computing ability. Ken Ian R Upton wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper motor setup and test

2009-09-11 Thread Andy Pugh
2009/9/11 Steve Stallings steve...@newsguy.com: The most common stepper motors are 50 pole, which results in 200 steps per revolution when driven by the 4 possible combinations of magnetic polarity of the 2 coils. If you turn them by hand, you will feel the 50 magnetic detents associated

Re: [Emc-users] G33 tapers

2009-09-11 Thread Kenneth Lerman
You had hexadecimal. We had to program in decimal before hex was invented. :-) (In Roman Numerals.) :-) Ken Andy Pugh wrote: 2009/9/11 Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net: Meaningful variable names are the first to fifth rules of programming. Even assembler language, in the

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper motor setup and test

2009-09-11 Thread Steve Stallings
The most common style of stepper motors used today have permanent magnets. These magnets are always pulling and will try to orient the rotor to one of the 50 pole positions even when the stator coils are not energized. When the two coils of the stator are energized, the poles of the rotor orient

Re: [Emc-users] G33 tapers

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck Saunders
Ah yes programming with C and X, I, V,L and M On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Kenneth Lerman kenneth.ler...@se-ltd.comwrote: You had hexadecimal. We had to program in decimal before hex was invented. :-) (In Roman Numerals.) :-) Ken Andy Pugh wrote: 2009/9/11 Erik Christiansen

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper motor setup and test

2009-09-11 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:43:46PM +0100, Andy Pugh wrote: 2009/9/11 Steve Stallings steve...@newsguy.com: If you turn them by hand, you will feel the 50 magnetic detents associated with the 50 poles. Presumably because the poles retain the magnetic polarity from last time they were

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper motor setup and test

2009-09-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 September 2009, Ian R Upton wrote: Gentlefolk, Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. Back looking at the basics. How do I know the motor is 50 steps/rev??? The motor is an Epson EM-257 which I have not been able to find much about on the Internet. I held the shaft of the

Re: [Emc-users] G33 tapers

2009-09-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 September 2009, Andy Pugh wrote: 2009/9/11 Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net: Meaningful variable names are the first to fifth rules of programming. Even assembler language, in the depths of last century, had 'em. No it didn't! (though some assemblers might have implemented

Re: [Emc-users] G33 tapers

2009-09-11 Thread cmgfam
I guess there is something about in-no-sense I look at that bit of numerics and read out loud to myself. line 118 if line 104 is less or equal to 2 times line 102 line 119 if line 102 is greater than line 116 line 102 equals line 104 divided by 2 line 119 end if line

Re: [Emc-users] EMC G-Code - Calling Files

2009-09-11 Thread Thorsten Seefeldt
I changed the ini file as you told me, but it still does not work. Some more ideas? Thorsten Am Donnerstag, den 10.09.2009, 20:12 +0200 schrieb Thomas Jager: Try setting: [RS274NGC] LAZY_CLOSE = 1 In your ini file. On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 19:54 +0200, Thorsten Seefeldt wrote: Hello,

Re: [Emc-users] EMC G-Code - Calling Files

2009-09-11 Thread Alex Joni
What emc2 version are you using? Regards, Alex - Original Message - From: Thorsten Seefeldt th.seefe...@gmx.de To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 1:15 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] EMC G-Code - Calling Files I changed