Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers

2011-01-13 Thread Cathrine Hribar
The Allegro manual may shed more light on it: http://www.allegromicro.com/en/Products/Part_Numbers/3977/3977.pdf I don't have a lot of experience with steppers, my mill was a working system from the factory, so it just works. I have been playing with a small stepper and an L298 driver,

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers (a new Wiki page?)

2010-12-30 Thread Kent A. Reed
[my comments are embedded] On 12/24/2010 2:38 PM, cogoman wrote: I looked on the Wiki, and believe I could provide something that would be useful. I could include more information to give a more complete treatment of the time limiting factors of using stepper motors. I have a few

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers (a new Wiki page?)

2010-12-24 Thread cogoman
I looked on the Wiki, and believe I could provide something that would be useful. I could include more information to give a more complete treatment of the time limiting factors of using stepper motors. I have a few questions to try to make it more informative, and since I've never posted

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers

2010-12-19 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/18/2010 11:43 PM, cogoman wrote: On 12/18/2010 08:35 AM, emc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I was wondering if u could tell me what this means: Setting PFD, Adjustable, percent fast decay. The manual I got with my stepmaster stepper board says this should be adjusted for each

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers

2010-12-18 Thread cogoman
On 12/18/2010 08:35 AM, emc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I was wondering if u could tell me what this means: Setting PFD, Adjustable, percent fast decay. The manual I got with my stepmaster stepper board says this should be adjusted for each axis. It doesn't say what it does or

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers

2010-12-17 Thread Cathrine Hribar
Hi Kirk: Have given your suggestion of tuning up the setup I have and will proceed toward that end. I was wondering if u could tell me what this means: Setting PFD, Adjustable, percent fast decay. The manual I got with my stepmaster stepper board says this should be adjusted for each axis.

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers

2010-12-17 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 22:02 -0700, Cathrine Hribar wrote: Hi Kirk: Have given your suggestion of tuning up the setup I have and will proceed toward that end. I was wondering if u could tell me what this means: Setting PFD, Adjustable, percent fast decay. The manual I got with my

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers

2010-12-06 Thread Cathrine Hribar
Hi Kirk: Thanks for ur interest in my project. The reason that I am having to do something about my steppers is that my machine started off life as a toy, mini desktop. I changed things and up graded the size of the whole machine so I could do real work with it. The steppers I have are

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers

2010-12-06 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 08:08 -0700, Cathrine Hribar wrote: Hi Kirk: Thanks for ur interest in my project. The reason that I am having to do something about my steppers is that my machine started off life as a toy, mini desktop. I changed things and up graded the size of the whole

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers

2010-11-25 Thread Cathrine Hribar
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:49:27 -0800 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 09:40 -0700, Catherine Hribar wrote: Hi all: Happy turkey day! Does anyone in this group have experience with CNC4PC servo controllers? I want to upgrade to encoders and this

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers

2010-11-25 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 08:58 -0700, Cathrine Hribar wrote: ... snip I looked at those amps and they require an enterface board, I think. If you already have a breakout board for your steppers, this could work for a PWM servo amp. EMC2 has a software generated PWM signal, but it is pretty slow and

[Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers

2010-11-20 Thread Cathrine Hribar
Hi all: Happy turkey day! Does anyone in this group have experience with CNC4PC servo controllers? I want to upgrade to encoders and this looks like the best so far. Thanks: Bill -- Beautiful is writing same

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers

2010-11-20 Thread H J Johnson
: Cathrine Hribar bhri...@bresnan.net Date: Saturday, November 20, 2010 10:40 am Subject: [Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers Hi all: Happy turkey day! Does anyone in this group have experience with CNC4PC servo controllers? I want to upgrade to encoders and this looks like the best so

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC Servo controllers

2010-11-20 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 09:40 -0700, Cathrine Hribar wrote: Hi all: Happy turkey day! Does anyone in this group have experience with CNC4PC servo controllers? I want to upgrade to encoders and this looks like the best so far. Thanks: Bill Both of the drives I saw on the CNC4PC