On Tuesday 29 December 2020 07:04:42 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 28 December 2020 17:27:25 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 28 December 2020 17:13:52 andy pugh wrote: > > > On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 21:56, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > And that get results, but bad, comm timeouts (error 12) once a > > > > second forever. Closer, but no biscuit yet. > > > > > > You might be able to ignore them. If it works otherwise. > > > > > > > Am I fighting with bad signal polarity since the red wire has an > > > > rs- tag, while the black wire is wearing an rs+ tag? > > > > > > That confused me, but I seem to recall it works better that way. > > > You could switch them. > > [...] > I finally got it. the baudrate and parity were both wrong. So that's > working well enough to read the vfd's status bits with an > hy_comm-ok=true. > > Now, to transfer controls to hy_vfd. And that is a mine field with > this man page. I gives a list of pins, but its a WAG what each does. > > Fur instance, what the heck is bracking? If its misspelled braking for > dc braking there would be 3 values, 0 for coasting tops, 1 for > resistor stops (which I've not yet hooked up), and 2 for dc stops. > > And this is confuzin > <name>.spindle-forward > (bit, in) > > <name>.spindle-reverse > (bin, in) > > <name>.spindle-on > (bin, in) > > What the heck is a (bin, in) ?? > > And that isn't the end, that man page needs help. I don't like netting > $tuff ju$t to $ee where the expen$ive $moke comes out. > > So first is adding a 10 second timer to run the hy_vfd.enable line 10 > seconds after powerup. No use trying to talk to it until its booted > which seems to take about 8 seconds. > Got that done ,but then my phone rang and it was two of my sons and one of their wives, sitting in the middle sons new 2500HD series diesel pickup at the end of my drive wanting to know where we were all eating breakfast. Took a couple days off to come and visit the old man. And its a loooong drive from western Kansas to north central WV.
So I'll be half distracted for 2 or 3 days. > Thanks Andy. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
