Dave Dyke wrote: >Hi >I am retrofitting a HES turning center with EMC2, using mesa 5i20 +7i33 >+7i37 >I have taken some lines from pluto hal file to get thread cutting and >connected the spindle encoder to enc-03, both threading and rigid tapping >are working. >But have been unable to get the spindle speed display to work, I have tried >variations of the example in the manual and from the nist lathe hal file, >can someone point me in the right direction. >I have emc controlling spindle fwd/rev bits, but am not able to control the >vfd speed when I try to run the spindle in reverse. >I am trying to use dac-03 to control the vfd speed, what should I set to >change output to 0 /+10v. > > It seems that you'd want to stick an absolute value component between the spindle speed output from EMC and the DAC on the Mesa card.
something like: loadrt abs net spindle-speed motion.spindle-speed-out abs.0.in net spindle-abs abs.0.out m5i20.0.dac-03-value - Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users