On 06/27/2015 03:35 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> On 06/27/2015 01:44 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
>> I'm running a pretty stock 2.5.4 version of LinuxCNC on my
>> Bridgeport.  The only thing I have changed is to add the
>> camera tab to Axis with camview.  The motion system is my
>> PPMC analog velocity board set.  I have lately started
>> getting following errors during slow motion.  I at first
>> suspected a chip in the ballscrew, but then it started
>> happening on different axes.  I lately have left Halscope
>> running, hoping to trap what is going on.  Well, I finally
>> got it, and it is really strange!
>>
>> See http://pico-systems.com/images/false_error.png  for the
>> Halscope trace.
>>
>> The selected trace is in white, the X axis following error
>> (pid.0.error).  Trace 4 (purple) is amp-enable, and triggers
>> the capture on the falling edge.  You can see the X
>> following error is quite small, and actually decreasing.  It
>> is well below the following error threshold in the ini
>> file.  I did get the "following error on axis 0" message on
>> the Axis screen.  This can happen several times during a
>> machining session, seemingly at random.
> What are your [AXIS_*]FERROR and MIN_FERROR values?
FERROR = 0.003
MIN_FERROR = 0.005

So, the recent error before the following error tripped was 
about 50 times smaller than the MIN_FERROR limit!

> Was the machine slowing down when the X axis f-errored, or was it moving
> at a constant slow speed?
That doesn't seem to matter, but probably at a constant 
speed most of the time.
It has happened 5 more times today, I have more Halscope 
shots, but they don't really give additional information.


Jon

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