noel wrote: > Yes, I know what an encoder is and why. I use Yaskawa motors and drives > that have indexes. I do not use steppers. > The older m5i20 driver implemented index homing quite nicely. The index > makes sure the home is very accurate. > Before the m5i20 driver is removed, it would be good to have the new hm2 > drive function correctly and in a similar manner.
Agreed, the older m5i20 driver should not be removed until well after all its features are supported and thuroughly tested in hm2. I believe hm2 today can do everything that m5i20 can do, but it's not as well tested - we're still finding bugs in it... The sooner we find them all, the sooner we can fix them all ;-) > So, at this point I just need to figure out how to get index homing working > with the hm2 driver, if it is indeed possible. I think it's possible and it should work well. Frank Tkalcevic said he has it working on his machine with the 5i20/SVST8_4.BIT firmware (no index mask). Frank, can you please post your homing .ini and .hal on pastebin.ca, and post a link on this mailing list? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky "Like most small parts, they are concrete-soluble: you drop them once, they're gone forever." -- John Bush ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
