Re: [Emc-users] Max Speed

2007-10-05 Thread John Thornton
On 5 Oct 2007 at 10:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Sam, It wasn't missing but it was set to 1.2... As soon as I set it to 6.7 Things started to look much better. I knew it would be something simple that I was overlooking... Now to play with it for a while... Thanks John > in your axis sect

Re: [Emc-users] Max Speed

2007-10-05 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: >[snip] > >>My config is: >>BASE_PERIOD =15000 >> >> >This means that you can get one step every 30 microseconds, or about >3 steps per second. > > Of course, if I had had sufficient caffeine, I might have noticed that 3/3000 = 11.111,

Re: [Emc-users] Max Speed

2007-10-05 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
John Thornton wrote: >I have a CNC4PC C1G parallel port interface card driving a Gecko 203v. >I have a 28vdc power supply and I am running the stepper without any >load just to get my configs setup... The highest velocity I can get is about >70 as reported on the Axis screen no matter what I set F

Re: [Emc-users] Max Speed

2007-10-05 Thread Sam Sokolik
in your axis section - it seems your missing MAX_VELOCITY = 6.7 (you want some stepgen headroom.) sam - Original Message - From: "John Thornton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 11:47 AM Subject: [Emc-users] Max Speed >I have a CNC4P

[Emc-users] Max Speed

2007-10-05 Thread John Thornton
I have a CNC4PC C1G parallel port interface card driving a Gecko 203v. I have a 28vdc power supply and I am running the stepper without any load just to get my configs setup... The highest velocity I can get is about 70 as reported on the Axis screen no matter what I set F at. If I do a MDI G1 F100

[Emc-users] Max speed too fast

2007-08-24 Thread Cecil Thomas
Stephen asked: |Is there any particular reason why you chose 2,400,000 for the servo and |traj periods? I'm sure it will work for these speeds (and it does |reduce the CPU load marginally), but it shouldn't be necessary to |lengthen these. Can you share your reason for changing them? Stephen,

Re: [Emc-users] Max speed too fast

2007-08-24 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Cecil Thomas wrote: >Thanks Stephen and Manfredi for the help. > >For those with similar setups this might be helpful: >Here is my latest (I hesitate to say final) .ini data >This is for a 1.7 GHz pentium 3 with a 400 MHz bus > > Hopefully it's final :) >2000 steps/rev servo, 5 rev/inch lead s

[Emc-users] Max speed too fast

2007-08-24 Thread Cecil Thomas
Thanks Stephen and Manfredi for the help. For those with similar setups this might be helpful: Here is my latest (I hesitate to say final) .ini data This is for a 1.7 GHz pentium 3 with a 400 MHz bus 2000 steps/rev servo, 5 rev/inch lead screw, 4:1 gear down motor to screw 40,000 input scale

Re: [Emc-users] Max speed too fast

2007-08-23 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Cecil Thomas wrote: >Thanks for the help. >I set my base period to 15,000, servo period to 60,000 and traj >period to 600,000. > > Ack! Unless you're running a servo machine at 1000m/min (yes, 1 kilometer per minute), you don't need a 60 microsecond servo rate. For most "normal" machines -

[Emc-users] Max speed too fast

2007-08-23 Thread Cecil Thomas
Thanks for the help. I set my base period to 15,000, servo period to 60,000 and traj period to 600,000. I lowered my max vel to .75 (45 inches per minute, plenty fast enough). Everything seems happy except the realtime error which I have not run to ground yet. The RT error was there at the lar

Re: [Emc-users] Max speed too fast

2007-08-23 Thread Manfredi Leto
achine Controller (EMC)" > >To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" >Subject: [Emc-users] Max speed too fast >Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:11:15 -0500 > >I am using EMC2 and a gecko servo drive to drive a servo I have >mounted on my Millrite. >When I set the max s

[Emc-users] Max speed too fast

2007-08-22 Thread Cecil Thomas
I am using EMC2 and a gecko servo drive to drive a servo I have mounted on my Millrite. When I set the max speed to 1.0 (I think that is 1 ips or 60 ipm) I get an error saying that the velocity is too high. I the motor/encoder/gecko drive require 2000 steps per rev and the lead screw is 5 tpi an