Les wrote: > Are you using backlash compensation? If so, what is your backlash > compensation speed? > > Les >
No, no backlash compensation (at last not that I know of - I guess it's possible that stepconf snuck something in though). My lead screw nuts are of the anti-backlash variety, so I am not doing anything special for backlash in software. Thanks, Jeff Jeffrey Pease wrote: > Hi EMC, > > I'm tuning my machine, and I am having some weird problems with the > EMC spiral example. This issue is entirely repeatable, and seems to > happen without fail regardless of any feed rate, acceleration or speed > settings that I have tried. > > What happens is on a particular place in every arc, the X and Y axis > both seem to stutter in the same way - pausing for a second before > continuing to finish the arc. This occurs in the area of the arc right > before each axis changes direction to start drawing the other half of > the arc - so the X axis stutters at 2:30, 3:30, 8:30, and the 9:30 > hour positions (the extreme left and right sides of each arc of the > spiral) and the Y axis stutters at 12:30, 5:30, 6:30 and 11:30 (the > extreme top and bottom of each arc). This strikes me as an unintuitive > spot for this stuttering to occur for each axis, since it seems like > the actual movement required at these points in each axis is > relatively small - once everything speeds up, it seems fine again. > > I have lubricated all the guide rods and lead screws (thinking it > might be some sort of binding issue), but that has not helped. > > The spiral appears to be perfectly smooth in these areas on the EMC > preview, so I don't believe it's a programming issue. > > I have no explanation for why this glitch is occurring in these spots, > and no real idea how to fix it. Any ideas? > > My machine is using steppers and lead screws. Running EMC2 on Ubuntu > 8.04. > > Thanks, > Jeff > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > emc-us...@... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
