cmg...@sover.net wrote: > Kirk. > Thank you. There is a lot here to absorb. The ways and means of > programing are all new and a foreign language. But..it's coming. > It looks like I need a few of those chips and sockets. The online supply > houses are pretty good. > > Does adding statments relative to encoders such as "loadrt encoder > num_chan=2"etc. (taken from the etch file) bring along any response on > the AXIS display screen? Or is there more to be done? > > No, there is one more step - you have to connect the hal component to a thread so it gets executed. The command should be something like : addf encoder.0 servo-thread
Without doing this, you would see the encoder.0.xxx hal pins in the show hal signals window, but they wouldn't change. After the addf, they would be updated with respect to the encoder inputs. BUT, you don't have any inputs. You would need to connect your parallel port input pins to the encoder input, and the enocder position output to the motion system. You would do well to look at some of the sample configs files which control servos directly through the parallel port to see how this is done. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
