Hi Gene Well I sat down this afternoon and worked on the configuration from scratch and it seemed to go OK . I can't try it yet because I am still waiting for the Breakout boards, they are on a slow boat from China. I still have to work out how to change the hal to make the stepconf type 5 as my steppers and driver don't suit step/dir.
I am actually building it because I am experimenting with Magnetic Motors and Wind Generators. The shaft and rotors on the magentic can spin very fast so the rotors have to be very accurate. More accurate than I can make with a circle cutter and spade bits. I am considering counter balancing the z axis as this is the heaviest load on the motors, the motors will be running on 19 volts so that should give them some oomph. My wife just came home from the church Kid's Club she's helping with a the moment. We've had our tea of a meat and a chicken hot5 pie. Delicious!! I've just taken a guess with the motor sizes but if they are too slow I'll just have to upgrade, but slow speed is not a great problem it can take all day if it needs to. I'm looking at the linuxcnc documentation on fixing SMI issues at the moment to see if I can get away from the potholes with the computer. I'm getting about 30,000ns max Jitter at the moment. This is a dedicated computer, it isn't even connected to the Internet (Linux Livid won t recognise the USB Dongle). This was meant to be an economy project but a few cooked Arduino boards has blown the budget. These are the links to the breakout board and the Stepper motors (For which I gave the wrong size) http://www.tecnoflexo.com.br/site/fotos/download/17/17.pdf http://www.robosoftsystems.co in/roboshop/media/catalog/product/pdf/Minebea%2014PM-M201%20Unipolar%20Motor pdf It's great to have our advice, I've been googling everywhere and never found how to contact people like this. Thankyou for your advice. Regards Bill ( I'm off to watch the football, the local team the Brisbane Broncos are playing the North Queensland Cowboys for the first game of the year) B ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
