On Friday 22 February 2019 19:20:36 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:10:16 -0500 > > From: Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] head scratcher, updated > > > > On Friday 22 February 2019 16:06:46 Przemek Klosowski wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 1:07 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > > > > wrote: > >>> memtest86 still has me scratching my head. If its so badly broken, > >>> then how in hell is it running lcnc without a hiccup while I go > >>> thru the copies of the original .ini and .hal files, fixing the > >>> syntax errors that changing the hardware its running on makes? > >>> Heck of a good question that. With some luck and a bigger supply > >>> of giddyup I might even have it rigged to drive some of the > >>> machine good enough to carve its own back panel by the time the > >>> new memory gets here late Monday. > >>> > >>> Well, maybe it's the memtest installation that's > >>> broken---uninstall and > >> > >> reinstall? It' should rewrite the boot areas memtest uses, in case > >> they got corrupted > > > > I gave that a fleeting thought, so fleeting I had forgotten about > > it by the time I'd refilled my coffee cup. > > > > Now, for PCW; > > I have it running an admittedly stripped to the bones config. > > Nothing is actually hooked up to the machine. But I can home it w/o > > motion, and I can jug the dros to the iii file set limits. > > In my old hal file I had: > > setp stepgen.0.min_limit [AXIS_X]MIN_LIMIT > > I put that in the new file and its a no-no, pin > > hm2_5i25.0.stepgen.0.0.min_limit does not exist. In fact no min or > > max_limits show except as ini.data visible to a halmeter. Yet the > > dro's stop at the limits set in the ini file under > > [AXIS_(xyz)]MIN_LIMIT or MAX_LIMIT. > > I dont think there has ever been a stepgen limit > Is it possible you went a bit overboard with find+replace? >
These are the axis "soft" limits. You normally set them relative to the absolute $home of an axis (g53 measurements) to prevent its running into the mechanical limits, usually I set them about 25 thou off the crash points for each axis. When software stepping, they are stepgen.N.min_limit and stepgen.N.max_limit. But there are no such critters in the 5i25 stepgen's. It apparently depends on axis to set and enforce those, and I hadn't noticed they were missing in the hal files I've hand carved previously. So now I think I understand how they work, but it was a surprise when setting it, that hal said it was no longer present, so I couldn't setp it. Panic time till I figured it out. :) Tomorrow, since I'm waiting yet on a slow junk from China, I'll cut up some cable and see if I can get it to run the vfd with the 7i76 spindle controls. I think I'll need 5 conductors so I should be able to do it in one 5 pin connector, if the pot common is also the ground reference for spinena and spindir. Most of the vfd's I've had, (a sample of one, which I'm running with a spinx1) share that. That I haven't verified with a meter yet on this vfd... I did get the imitation Renishaw yesterday, and I certainly can't wax poetic about it. Very poorly made IMO. Thank you Peter. > Peter Wallace > Mesa Electronics > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users 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> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
