[Emc-users] UK suppliers of stepper motors and drive electronics

2008-02-13 Thread davenull
On 12 Feb 2008 at 18:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EMC can do PID just fine. It's steppers that can't. Steppers lose torque as the speed increases. There is no way around this, it's just the physics of the motor. Did someone rewrite the spec for PID? used to be a way of correcting a

Re: [Emc-users] UK suppliers of stepper motors and drive electronics

2008-02-13 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Feb 2008 at 18:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EMC can do PID just fine. It's steppers that can't. Steppers lose torque as the speed increases. There is no way around this, it's just the physics of the motor. Did someone rewrite the spec for PID?

Re: [Emc-users] UK suppliers of stepper motors and drive electronics

2008-02-13 Thread Hansjakob Rusterholz
Am 13.02.2008 um 11:41 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 12 Feb 2008 at 18:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EMC can do PID just fine. It's steppers that can't. Steppers lose torque as the speed increases. There is no way around this, it's just the physics of the motor. Did someone

Re: [Emc-users] UK suppliers of stepper motors and drive electronics

2008-02-13 Thread ben lipkowitz
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Dave Engvall wrote: EMC can do PID just fine. It's steppers that can't. Steppers lose torque as the speed increases. There is no way around this, it's just the physics of the motor. PID loop will attempt to correct for a lagging motor by requesting more effort

[Emc-users] realistic expectations?

2008-02-13 Thread Dave Engvall
Hi all, While this list is essentially a list for EMC controller discussion an occasional passing word on precision and accuracy might be appropriate. Definitions: accuracy : the ability to hit the blueprint values precision: your repeatability You can adjust your code to hit the spec

Re: [Emc-users] UK suppliers of stepper motors and drive electronics

2008-02-13 Thread John Kasunich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Feb 2008 at 18:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EMC can do PID just fine. It's steppers that can't. Steppers lose torque as the speed increases. There is no way around this, it's just the physics of the motor. Did someone rewrite the spec for PID? No.

[Emc-users] EMC history

2008-02-13 Thread paul_c
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 15:40, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: I'm starting to suspect that EMC is a project that started out, not to emulate the commercial equivalents, but built bit by bit to do various things on the cheap, I'm starting to suspect that EMC is not a realtime machine

Re: [Emc-users] UK suppliers of stepper motors and drive electronics

2008-02-13 Thread John Kasunich
Kirk Wallace wrote: I think Tormach has a fairly compelling argument for steppers here: http://www.tormach.com/document_library/TD30204_DesignAnalysis.pdf Starts on page seven, though I think the whole document is worth while. Second that - I read the whole thing a few weeks ago. Its