Re: [Emc-users] Carousel component questions

2016-11-07 Thread Jan Bos
Hello Marius, Thanks a lot for your detailed explanation and your comp file. I printed it and will go through it to see what I need to do to adapt it. I see you made quite some changes to it compared to the original carousel component, am I missing the shortcomings of the original carousel compon

Re: [Emc-users] Carousel component questions

2016-11-07 Thread Marius Alksnys
11/07/2016 09:37 AM, Marius Alksnys rašė: Hello, Jan, this is my carousel HAL component version. I made it more reliable, was tested a lot and is working on a real machine. Sense-pocket is low when carousel is fixed and high between positions. Sense-index occurs once per revolution between po

Re: [Emc-users] Carousel component questions

2016-11-06 Thread Marius Alksnys
Hello, Jan, this is my carousel HAL component version. I made it more reliable, was tested a lot and is working on a real machine. Sense-pocket is low when carousel is fixed and high between positions. Sense-index occurs between positions AFAIR. Might require changes because of hard-coded senso

Re: [Emc-users] Carousel component questions

2016-11-06 Thread Jan Bos
Thank you all for your feedback. As I expected, I will add the sensor and give it a try. I am following the 'VMV Hal related questions' thread on the forum and I have the virtual machine working. This virtual set-up is very close to what I want to achieve. I am hooking up the sensors now for the A

Re: [Emc-users] Carousel component questions

2016-11-04 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 11/03/2016 06:23 PM, Jan Bos wrote: ... > Do I need to add a 'home' sensor or a 'pocket 1' sensor? > > I am not quite clear on how this is supposed to work, could anybody shine > some light on how the Carousel component works with sensor inputs like this? ... For reference, I don't use the caro

Re: [Emc-users] Carousel component questions

2016-11-04 Thread andy pugh
On 4 November 2016 at 01:23, Jan Bos wrote: > My ATC has only one sensor that detects the pockets, it is a > Geneva style ATC and the sensor is on the drive wheel and senses each > rotation i.e. each step the wheel makes. There is no sensor to tell the > system which pocket is facing the spindle.

Re: [Emc-users] Carousel component questions

2016-11-03 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 09:23:00AM +0800, Jan Bos wrote: > > Do I need to add a 'home' sensor or a 'pocket 1' sensor? Yes! You will never regret fixing hardware so it's not stupid. I did this on my vmc's tool changer - I moved a prox to give a home and quadrature signal instead of the stupid or

[Emc-users] Carousel component questions

2016-11-03 Thread Jan Bos
Hello everybody, I am working on an ATC for my mill and intend to use the carousel component. My ATC has only one sensor that detects the pockets, it is a Geneva style ATC and the sensor is on the drive wheel and senses each rotation i.e. each step the wheel makes. There is no sensor to tell the s