He is talking about a +/- 10 volt SIGNAL not a +/- 10 volt power supply.
His servo amp converts this analog signal to velocity. The signal works
so if it is 0V the motor stops, +5V it runs forward at 1/2 speed and -5V
is backwards at 1/2 speed and so on.
The suggested I offered was to use a
I have upgraded the OS with apt-get as you said. When I test proposed
sequence I get the following output:
root@beaglebone:/home/machinekit# realtime restart
/usr/libexec/linuxcnc/rtapi_msgd: FATAL - will not run as root
rtapi_msgd startup failed - aborting
rtapi_app startup failed - aborting
I'm working on getting the Replicape to work with the Jessie Machinekit
images. Here are my findings so far:
I had to replace the Xenomai kernel with the RT-PREEMPT kernel. I think
some configuration for the Xenomai kernel might be missing. However, I
think the RT-PREEMPT kernel should work
I purchased the board from Pico Systems (http://pico-systems.com/). I
assumed that the eeprom had been programmed. I do not believe that I have
been loading an overlay unless it was actually in one of the build which
seems to have been a bad assumption. Do you believe that could be causing
On 3/20/2017 11:41 AM, Jonathan Cohen wrote:
> Is there a specific overlay for using the CRAMPS board and HDMI that should
> be installed or called that is not part of the machinekit build that RCN
> puts out ? One nagging thing on my mind is some of the "error" codes that
> come up during the
Please check the last 15 or so posts in
[Machinekit] Machinekit not starting: seems to be attempting to
start incorrect rtapi app
Re: [Machinekit] Re: Problems with installing xhc-hb04 in my
Machinekit BBB cnc project
There was a problem, which was fixed
Thanks for the fix, but pulling your fix and the others on master seems to
have made things worse. Now I'm getting lots of Segmentation Faults during
the make setuid phase...
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb6e2dba4 in strlen () from /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6
#1 0x00011458 in default_flavor () at
Yes, there was another update after that.
Thanks for confirming
On 21/03/2017 05:14, Brian Schousek wrote:
A new build must have happened after you posted this: 0.1.1490033988
fixes my real time problem. Now I just need to get the parallel port
configured properly.
Brian
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