Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Matt Shaver wrote: > Not that I know of, although I'm not in charge of the compile farm, nor > am I a release manager. There are scripts to run specific HAL related > tests (emc2/scripts/tests). If GUI functional tests were to be added, > there is a list of open source winrunner type systems here:

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-23 Thread Matt Shaver
essage- > From: Matt Shaver [mailto:m...@mattshaver.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:50 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system > > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 08:38 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wr

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Matt Shaver wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 08:38 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >> Are you running with the hm2 stepgen's maxvel and maxaccel 5% higher >> than the TP's [AXIS_?]MAX*, and still getting following errors? > > I just looked at the particular .ini and .hal files, and, I am sad to >

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-23 Thread Matt Shaver
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 08:38 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Are you running with the hm2 stepgen's maxvel and maxaccel 5% higher > than the TP's [AXIS_?]MAX*, and still getting following errors? I just looked at the particular .ini and .hal files, and, I am sad to report, no. I was in a big h

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-23 Thread Rob Jansen
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > I'm glad that worked :-) > I'm hoping that i'll get stepgen maxaccel=0 working soonish, then we'll > make that the default and the user will just set [AXIS] stuff correctly > and things'll work. > Just let me know when it's done. I'd be happy to cvs the new sources

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Rob Jansen wrote: > Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >> Are you running with the hm2 stepgen's maxvel and maxaccel 5% higher >> than the TP's [AXIS_?]MAX*, and still getting following errors? >> > I changed the hm2 stepgen and maxvel to values that are a bit higher > than the AXIS_ values - this wor

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-23 Thread Rob Jansen
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Matt Shaver wrote: > > ... > > Are you running with the hm2 stepgen's maxvel and maxaccel 5% higher > than the TP's [AXIS_?]MAX*, and still getting following errors? > I changed the hm2 stepgen and maxvel to values that are a bit higher than the AXIS_ values

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Matt Shaver wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 22:10 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >> In the awesome future, the hm2 stepgen will have a mode where it blindly >> follows the trajectory planner's command, trusting it to accelerate in a >> reasonable way. > > I eagerly await the awesome future! >

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-22 Thread Rob Jansen
Sebastian, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Some other thoughts on the hm2-stepper config you linked in an earlier > email: > > You dont need a BASE_PERIOD for hostmot2 - the base thread is in the FPGA. > > Your SERVO and TRAJ periods are both 100,000 ns, which is pretty > aggressive, 1,000,000 ns i

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-22 Thread Matt Shaver
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 22:10 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > In the awesome future, the hm2 stepgen will have a mode where it blindly > follows the trajectory planner's command, trusting it to accelerate in a > reasonable way. I eagerly await the awesome future! I did get a chance to test th

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-22 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Rob Jansen wrote: > So next thing to do is to set the m5i20.00.stepgen.0.maxaccel/maxvel a > bit bigger and see what happens. I think the above configuration change should fix the problem you're seeing. Take a look at the "stepper/stepper_mm.ini" config, it specifies both an [AXIS_?]MAX_ACCELE

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-22 Thread Rob Jansen
Alex Joni wrote: > You didn't say what emc2 version you're using. > hm2-stepper has been reworked for 2.3.0, so you might have better success > with that. > Yes, I am using 2.3.0. The version I compiled from CVS end of last week so the one without the humming and dithering in the motors. > * y

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:32:33PM +0200, Rob Jansen wrote: > > whatever I try I keep having joint > following errors. what emc version? -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM)

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-22 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Alex, Well yea, then start backing it back down. But I got fooled on that because I did not increase FError enough to see a difference, and hence started looking at other parameters. Sort of like he is doing now. This is just proving that FError is the parameter you want to look at adjusting. Reg

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-22 Thread Alex Joni
Having such a large FERROR is bogus imo. Basicly you're telling the machine it can deviate 100 units from path, and you don't mind... It's probably less bad in mm, but still worlds away from a precise part. Regards, Alex > Rob, > > Have you tried adjusting FError and Min_FError? You can increa

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-22 Thread Alex Joni
nt: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:34 PM Subject: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system > forgot a link to my configs: http://www.myvoice.nl/freesmachine/configs/ > > The "elan" config is the old parport config,

Re: [Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-22 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Rob, Have you tried adjusting FError and Min_FError? You can increase FError by quite a bit, say 100 or higher if necessary. In my case that got rid of most of the following errors. The one instance I would still get them is in a sequence of G0 moves, such as retract, move, plunge (I am using a l

[Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-22 Thread Rob Jansen
forgot a link to my configs: http://www.myvoice.nl/freesmachine/configs/ The "elan" config is the old parport config, hm2-stepper the hostmot2 stepper motor config. Rob -- Stay on top of everything new and different, bo

[Emc-users] Help configuring hostmot2 stepper system

2009-04-22 Thread Rob Jansen
Hi, the past week(s) I have been working on getting my hostmot2 system running with the Mesa 5i20 card and stepper motors. Up to a certain point this is a success. But there still is this problem with joint following errors - whatever I try I keep having joint following errors. I tried differ