Re: [Emc-users] an exciting new setup: generated tach signal

2010-08-14 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 07:53:48PM -0700, Neil Baylis wrote: Chris, would you care to hazard a guess at how much phase shift you see from the 7i48 input to the velocity input at the servo amp? I tried to measure the delay in this setup. I scoped the real tachometer (which is now hooked to

Re: [Emc-users] an exciting new setup: generated tach signal

2010-08-11 Thread dave
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 22:19 -0500, Chris Radek wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 07:53:48PM -0700, Neil Baylis wrote: would you care to hazard a guess at how much phase shift you see from the 7i48 input to the velocity input at the servo amp? There's at least a millisecond delay between the

Re: [Emc-users] an exciting new setup: generated tach signal

2010-08-11 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 07:47:21AM -0700, dave wrote: Hi Chris, Indeed that is exciting. Far better results than I would have expected. I wonder if decreasing the servo cycle would decrease the following error? Not that 0.0005 on acceleration is bad. That is about 13 counts at the motor

[Emc-users] an exciting new setup: generated tach signal

2010-08-10 Thread Chris Radek
Hi all, I have a VMC with low inertia servos and 25 amp 270 volt velocity mode servo amps. It has tachometers and 1/25400 inch (micron) resolution rotary encoders on the motors. I have been struggling with a bad tachometer on Y for a while now - it would come and go - and when people started

Re: [Emc-users] an exciting new setup: generated tach signal

2010-08-10 Thread Neil Baylis
Chris, would you care to hazard a guess at how much phase shift you see from the 7i48 input to the velocity input at the servo amp? Neil On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote: Hi all, I have a VMC with low inertia servos and 25 amp 270 volt velocity mode

Re: [Emc-users] an exciting new setup: generated tach signal

2010-08-10 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 07:53:48PM -0700, Neil Baylis wrote: would you care to hazard a guess at how much phase shift you see from the 7i48 input to the velocity input at the servo amp? There's at least a millisecond delay between the motion and the amp seeing the corresponding tach signal,