On Wednesday 17 September 2014 11:21:53 [email protected] did opine And Gene did reply: > I'll try changing the counter mode and see if that helps. Why can't I > seem to find documentation that clearly lists all variables / keywords > and how they operate and accepted values?
It is in the hal manual.pdf Pete, see the mesa hm2 section, although much too concise for easy reading. Much is not explained in any depth. The problem is the N! of all the options, just the 5i25 with an example of each option would self-expand into a 3000 page war and peace equ novel. Peter C. W. has had to explain a lot of it to me. I thank him for his patience in that regard. > Thanks, > > Pete C. > > > ------Original Mail------ > From: "andy pugh" <[email protected]> > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:23:32 > +0100 > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] New to LinuxCNC and PnCConf and need some > help... > > On 17 September 2014 15:01, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm also anything but clear on the settings for the spindle encoder > > (A and Index) for threading. > > If you only have a single channel on the encoder then you need to set > "counter-mode" to 1 for the encoder counter. Otherwise the encoder > just counts up 1, down 1, up one, down 1 as there is no B phase. > > > I tried to get it to home in the positive direction and that works to > > a point, but it wants to make that home location zero instead of the > > max axis travel such as 18.0 and as a result if the home position is > > set as 18 it will just blindly run away looking for that in the > > positive direction to overtravel. > > Yes, that is what you will end up with. Just set the axis limits as 0 > to -18 and it will all work fine. You won't be machining in the G53 > coordinate system anyway, so you will never notice. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
