On Friday 02 November 2012 11:44:04 Jon Elson did opine: > On 11/01/2012 12:25 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > > Gentlemen, > > > > What is ferror used for in motion or any calculation? I thought it > > was > > > > only for human feedback during the tuning phase. > > It is used to stop motion when the error is excessive. On my machines, > it causes an E-stop. > > > PID error and ferror are not two different things? > > Well, I think that's the crux of Peter's complaint, is that they should > not be different, but his claim is that the ARE different. If you want > to demand tight tolerance for following of the commanded path, then you > really need the PID to be striving to minimize the same thing that is > used to stop the system when it doesn't. > > I have not explored this very deeply, but I think Peter may be on > to something, and I believe I have seen the same problem but I didn't > find where it was coming from. > > Jon > I'm not sure, but in my attempts to tune the lathes spindle speed servo, I may have some instability created by that, which leads to over correction and which is then prevented from slowing down by the rc time constants in the pwm to electronic speed potentiometer interface. Due to the filtration on Arturo's card, the opamp can speed it up faster than it can slow it down. The smoothing capacitor, a 10uf unit, is IMO about 40x too big. Before I blew up the first card, and my temp controlled iron because I'd forgotten to unplug everything but the grounded tip iron, it was running well on a .2 uf cap in that pair of holes. In retrospect, I should have bought another PMDX-106. That would have Just Worked(TM) with some ice cube relays to boost it. But what isn't in the flying swarf on the mill, is drowning in it on the front of that lathe. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ LogMeIn Central: Instant, anywhere, Remote PC access and > management. Stay in control, update software, and manage PCs from one > command center Diagnose problems and improve visibility into emerging > IT issues Automate, monitor and manage. Do more in less time with > Central http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein12331_d2d > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
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