On Wednesday 18 November 2020 10:10:16 Les Newell wrote: > Hi Gene, > > Your encoder should work in the same direction as PID input. You can > reverse it by reversing the sign of the encoder scale. For example if > it is positive make it negative. > > How about a pullup on the encoder lines? > That's whats worrying me, its taking a pretty low ohmage to clean up the rise time enough to work at the motors full speed, 1500 ohms for a pullup seems rather low as its got to sink 3.4ma for a logic zero, OTOH 1500 only raises the logic zero a millivolt, not enough to see the 2nd trace separate from the first on the scope. So I laid out a pair of 1500's. Now to find a board to build it on. With the shack gone, my choices are becoming more limited as time goes by. > Les > > On 18/11/2020 15:03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Working on getting the BS-1 working. > > ATM. PID.a-feedback is disconnected from from the A encoder, and > > hitting the [] keys to run the motor, the feedback from the encoder > > is the opposite sign of the PID.a input cmd. > > > > 1. Is this the correct state? Or do I need to swap encoder A/B > > leads? > > > > 2. Does anybody have a cmos buffer board I can put between the > > encoders leads and the bob's input? > > > > I have apparently damaged the encoders output stages, and hooking > > its leads up to the bobs inputs results in the rising edge of the > > signal looking like its charging a large capacitance. Falling edge > > is fine. Quadrature is excellent. > > > > However as the motor speeds up, it eventually reaches a point where > > it fails to make it to a logic 1 and the whole thing goes nuts. So I > > need the equ of a 74HCT245 to buffer it and bring it to where it can > > do a rail to rail swing. Disconnected from the bob, it does do a > > rail to rail swing with a rise or fall time in the very low > > microsecond range. > > > > Thanks all. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
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