On 09/25/2016 08:43 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 09/25/2016 09:41 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: >> On 09/25/2016 04:46 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: >>> Hi Kirk, >>> >>> Thanks for giving it a run! It is hard to tell if it's an improvement, but >>> it does look like it's tracking smoothly, It would likely help to compare >>> the same run without the patch to see if the velocity jitters more. >> Oops, I'm sorry, what I posted was a run of the stock LinuxCNC on my >> lathe as a baseline. I haven't installed your fork yet. At this point I >> think I have two tasks, update to Jon's timestamp feature > The timestamp feature requires firmware in the UPC board > that supports it. The USC (stepper controller) does not > support it at all. Newer UPCs (PWM controller) do support > it, but your board SN0035 was bought in 2007, and cannot be > updated, due to the FPGA being 2 generations out of date. > (If you have a newer board, pardon me, but those are the > ones I see in my database.) > > Jon
Hmm, I haven't looked yet but I think these are older boards. I sent for a chip to convert the stepper board to servo, but that's it. They are working fine, so I guess I have one less thing to fiddle with. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
