I was looking at that before. Must be thousands. Basically anything you want. Now I just have to figure out what I want haha but it sure is flexible. On Dec 2, 2014 7:14 PM, "Kirk Wallace" <kwall...@wallacecompany.com> wrote:
> On 12/02/2014 02:56 PM, Jeremy Jones wrote: > > Ok. The code looked similar but I figured it had nothing to do with what > I > > need to do. I'll sit down later and figure it all out when I have time. > > Giving it a brief look, you just put: > "loadusr wj200_vfd" > > in your .hal file. > > Or to play with a bare bones setup, from a terminal window, invoke > halrun. Then at the prompt "loadusr wj200_vfd". > > For me, I got a permission error, which means you need access rights to > the serial port. I typed "quit", then tried again with "sudo halrun", > then the loadusr bit. After that you can type "show" to see all the pins > and such available from the wj200_vfd component. From here you can > create a thread, add the component to the thread and start it. Use setp > to set pins or parameters. > > Looking in the comp source, it looks like the serial port settings are > hard coded to: > ... > /* modbus connection settings*/ > char *device = "/dev/ttyS0"; > int baud = 9600; > char parity = 'N'; > int data_bits = 8; > int stop_bits = 1; > modbus_t *ctx; > ... > > So you will need to put an RS-485 adapter on your serial port 0 and run > the two wires to your VFD's SP (Serial Positive) and SN (Serial > Negative) terminals. Then make sure the VFD serial port parameters match > the settings above. > > If the serial communications is working, you should be able to enable > and other pins from your halrun session, or set up you .hal file to make > the pin connections to LinuxCNC/AXIS pins. > > If needed, the serial port can be checked using minicom and a jumper on > serial port pin 2 and 3. Set minicom for software handshake. Then > anything you type should echo back to your terminal display. > > That's what comes to mind so far. You probably need to run down the > permission issue to run the component as a normal user. > > -- > Kirk Wallace > http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ > http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
