Re: [Emc-users] For Peter

2020-10-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 October 2020 15:58:07 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > > 12 volts to an input before they see a true? > > 7I76 inputs need > 60% of field voltage to register high > and < 40% of field voltage to register low Field voltage is 12 volts. From a teeny external 15 watt supply. That fixed that. N

Re: [Emc-users] For Peter

2020-10-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 October 2020 15:58:07 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:49:17 -0400 > > From: Gene Heskett > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > > > To: "'Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)'" > > Subject: [Emc-users]

Re: [Emc-users] For Peter

2020-10-16 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:49:17 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" To: "'Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)'" Subject: [Emc-users] For Peter I went out to clear the input pins I'd need for the 2nd encoder I was g

Re: [Emc-users] question for Chris and Thaddeus

2020-10-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 October 2020 14:03:24 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > > So, 2 questions for Peter CW: Can I run the 5i25's pwm-gens in > > different modes? If so, how? > > PWM modes are per channel so can be different on a per channel basis > > Beware using bare FPGA I/O for driving HBridges that have non-

[Emc-users] For Peter

2020-10-16 Thread Gene Heskett
I went out to clear the input pins I'd need for the 2nd encoder I was going to use with the BS-1 clone. Somewhere the mirror got broken but without any smoke. At lcnc launch, it complained that the first 3 field input "-nots" did not exist, so they got their net lines commented out. They corres

Re: [Emc-users] question for Chris and Thaddeus

2020-10-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 October 2020 12:26:11 John Dammeyer wrote: > > From: Thaddeus Waldner [mailto:thadw...@gmail.com] > > Perhaps a more significant advantage of the servo drive described by > > John Dammeyer is that it has a current control loop running inside > > of the LinuxCNC velocity control loop.

Re: [Emc-users] question for Chris and Thaddeus

2020-10-16 Thread Peter C. Wallace
So, 2 questions for Peter CW: Can I run the 5i25's pwm-gens in different modes? If so, how? PWM modes are per channel so can be different on a per channel basis Beware using bare FPGA I/O for driving HBridges that have non-isolated inputs. These often have considerable ground bumping (in the m

Re: [Emc-users] question for Chris and Thaddeus

2020-10-16 Thread Jon Elson
On 10/16/2020 12:06 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: But, given fast enough switching fets, can this disadvantage not be addressed with a combo of near the high limit for pwm frequency, and a suitable, non-saturating toroid in series with the motor? Yes, that is what I do with my PWM servo amplifiers.

Re: [Emc-users] question for Chris and Thaddeus

2020-10-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 15 October 2020 23:03:00 Jon Elson wrote: > On 10/15/2020 09:49 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: > > The theory is that if the PWM signal is high the H-Bridge is > > switched to say turn the motor clockwise. If the PWM signal is low > > the H-Bridge is switch to turn the motor counter clockwi

Re: [Emc-users] question for Chris and Thaddeus

2020-10-16 Thread John Dammeyer
> From: Thaddeus Waldner [mailto:thadw...@gmail.com] > Perhaps a more significant advantage of the servo drive described by John > Dammeyer is that it has a current control loop running > inside of the LinuxCNC velocity control loop. > Pretty fancy to do that on an 8-bit microcontroller. That A

Re: [Emc-users] question for Chris and Thaddeus

2020-10-16 Thread Thaddeus Waldner
Perhaps a more significant advantage of the servo drive described by John Dammeyer is that it has a current control loop running inside of the LinuxCNC velocity control loop. Pretty fancy to do that on an 8-bit microcontroller. That ATTiny has an on-chip analog comparator. > On Oct 15, 2020, a