Re: [Emc-users] Dealing with Servo Faults

2021-02-12 Thread John Dammeyer
I'm finally at the point where I'm ready to bundle up the CNC cabinet with the new Knee Servo driver connection and a few of the other changes. Status LEDs on the front cover. Anyway my research has turned up some interesting conclusions. 1. An open loop stepper motor system with a relay to swi

Re: [Emc-users] Dealing with Servo Faults

2021-02-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 February 2021 11:17:36 Jon Elson wrote: > On 02/11/2021 09:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Well, it takes FF1 = 20.5 to get a cruise at about null, > > And I did have FF2 = .5, but .35 cancels the stop spike. > > > > So my question is why are these so far out of the normal range where

Re: [Emc-users] Dealing with Servo Faults

2021-02-12 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/11/2021 09:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Well, it takes FF1 = 20.5 to get a cruise at about null, And I did have FF2 = .5, but .35 cancels the stop spike. So my question is why are these so far out of the normal range where for a stepgen FF1=1.0 and FF2 = .001 is about right. Something else

Re: [Emc-users] Dealing with Servo Faults

2021-02-12 Thread Todd Zuercher
Because steps/machine unit and volts/unit are not the same scale. Todd Zuercher P. Graham Dunn Inc. 630 Henry Street  Dalton, Ohio 44618 Phone:  (330)828-2105ext. 2031 -Original Message- From: Gene Heskett Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2021 10:42 PM To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Su