Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 - stepper signal invert

2009-04-20 Thread John Thornton
It is now :) John On 19 Apr 2009 at 20:21, Andrew Ayre wrote: John, Your emails are arriving with a datestamp of 2004. Is your computer set to the right year? Andy John Thornton wrote: On 18 Apr 2009 at 21:44, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Rob Jansen wrote: this works - I

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 - stepper signal invert

2009-04-19 Thread John Thornton
On 18 Apr 2009 at 21:44, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Rob Jansen wrote: this works - I thought that only worked on standard output lines - not on special function pins. Sometimes I am thinking too complex... Well, maybe the hostmot2 manpage could use some clarification on this

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 - stepper signal invert

2009-04-19 Thread Rob Jansen
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 3:33 PM, John Thornton jet1...@semo.net wrote: I've added a bit to the manual on this after reading this... http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/devel/html//drivers_hostmot2.html Heck it even makes sense to me now :) I think... It even makes sense to me :-) Most of this

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 - stepper signal invert

2009-04-19 Thread John Thornton
On 19 Apr 2009 at 19:58, Rob Jansen wrote: One small typo: in the encoders - parameters section the first parameter is .couner-mode Thanks for the catch on that spello. John -- Stay on top of everything new and

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 - stepper signal invert

2009-04-19 Thread Andrew Ayre
John, Your emails are arriving with a datestamp of 2004. Is your computer set to the right year? Andy John Thornton wrote: On 18 Apr 2009 at 21:44, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Rob Jansen wrote: this works - I thought that only worked on standard output lines - not on special function

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 - stepper signal invert

2009-04-18 Thread Rob Jansen
Thanks, this works - I thought that only worked on standard output lines - not on special function pins. Sometimes I am thinking too complex... Meanwhile I also added spindle control with a PWM output. I think the docs are a bit outdated (or I just found the wrong ones).Some docs tell me the to

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 - stepper signal invert

2009-04-18 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Rob Jansen wrote: this works - I thought that only worked on standard output lines - not on special function pins. Sometimes I am thinking too complex... Well, maybe the hostmot2 manpage could use some clarification on this issue. The distinction between physical I/O pins on the board

[Emc-users] Hostmot2 - stepper signal invert

2009-04-17 Thread Rob Jansen
Hi, is it possible to invert the DIR signal of the stepgen output of the Mesa 5i20 board? On my old (parport) config I had the DIR signal inverted so I was looking for a similar option on the hostmot configuration. Otherwise I'd have to open the controller-box to change one of the phases of

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 - stepper signal invert

2009-04-17 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Rob Jansen wrote: is it possible to invert the DIR signal of the stepgen output of the Mesa 5i20 board? On my old (parport) config I had the DIR signal inverted so I was looking for a similar option on the hostmot configuration. Yes this is easily doable. When you start emc2 and it loads

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 - stepper signal invert

2009-04-17 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Rob Jansen wrote: Hi, is it possible to invert the DIR signal of the stepgen output of the Mesa 5i20 board? On my old (parport) config I had the DIR signal inverted so I was looking for a similar option on the hostmot configuration. One way to do that would be to change the sign of the