Re: [Emc-users] Home + Index home positioning problem.

2008-08-20 Thread Yahnis Chris
Will do it, but I am not familiar with linux and RT OSs, so it will take some time until I will familiarize myself with all the relations and will be able to put it together. Y. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Y

Re: [Emc-users] Home + Index home positioning problem.

2008-08-20 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 01:05:27AM +0200, Yahnis Chris wrote: > "if you have proven its effectiveness and usefulness." > > Accurate zero position is the key for many jobs. It is especially important > if you have a job, that spreads over several days and you want to turn off > your machine for nig

Re: [Emc-users] Home + Index home positioning problem.

2008-08-19 Thread Yahnis Chris
"if you have proven its effectiveness and usefulness." Accurate zero position is the key for many jobs. It is especially important if you have a job, that spreads over several days and you want to turn off your machine for night and continue next day. Mechanical switches are unreliable. Proximity

Re: [Emc-users] Home + Index home positioning problem.

2008-08-19 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 09:24:00PM +0200, Yahnis Chris wrote: > [...] > Checked the stepgen C code and see no reason why an additional flag > check would not be feasible. When index-enable is not on just skip the > "settozero" subroutine. Maybe a future feature? Indeed, there's no reason you could

Re: [Emc-users] Home + Index home positioning problem.

2008-08-19 Thread Yahnis Chris
First thanks for the fast answer. "Everything you are doing looks correct. You don't show the HAL lines, but I assume that you are connecting the A and B phases of the encoder as well." Of course. Just tried to keep the story in limits. " Does it turn off again when the index pulse arrives?" Ye

Re: [Emc-users] Home + Index home positioning problem.

2008-08-19 Thread John Kasunich
Yahnis Chris wrote: > Hi All, > > I experienced some homing problem on a home switch + encoder index > configuration. > The install was simple. After the initial timing issues and a subsequent > motherboard change the machine runs fine and quite stable, timing is good, > except emc does not reset

[Emc-users] Home + Index home positioning problem.

2008-08-19 Thread Yahnis Chris
Hi All, I experienced some homing problem on a home switch + encoder index configuration. The install was simple. After the initial timing issues and a subsequent motherboard change the machine runs fine and quite stable, timing is good, except emc does not reset the axis position at the index sig