Re: [Emc-users] Step/Direction Drivers

2007-11-05 Thread Jeff Epler
Yes, you'd need a special HAL driver that takes a velocity input to send to the drive, and produces a position output to send back to emc. Looking at the pdf you linked to, you would have to arrange for emc to produce a 16-bit velocity command to be written to register 0x30 ("Velocity Word FIFO in

Re: [Emc-users] Step/Direction Drivers

2007-11-05 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Of course, it would have been better if I had put parts 1, 2, and 3 in the correct numerical order. Please rearrange in your head ;) - Steve - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files

Re: [Emc-users] Step/Direction Drivers

2007-11-05 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Kirk Wallace wrote: >[snip] >Are you talking about reconfiguring the 5i20 after loading EMC and the >5i20 driver? Normally, I would think, you would create the new >configuration in a new driver. It certainly would be cool to be able to >dynamically configure EMC and the 5i20, but might not be go

Re: [Emc-users] Step/Direction Drivers

2007-11-05 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Kirk Wallace wrote: > Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:37:27 -0800 > From: Kirk Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Step/

Re: [Emc-users] Step/Direction Drivers

2007-11-05 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 12:17 -0500, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > Kirk Wallace wrote: > > > [snip] > > > >Where can I get more information on Hostmot2? > > > > > I think the Hostmot2 files are on the Mesa website, but my understanding > was that they only work with the 5i22. I should look more

Re: [Emc-users] Step/Direction Drivers

2007-11-05 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Kirk Wallace wrote: > [snip] > >Where can I get more information on Hostmot2? > > I think the Hostmot2 files are on the Mesa website, but my understanding was that they only work with the 5i22. I should look more closely at the VHDL source I guess :) At the moment, there is no EMC2 driver fo

Re: [Emc-users] Step/Direction Drivers

2007-11-05 Thread Kirk Wallace
> > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Step/Direction Drivers > > > > On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 06:11 -0800, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > >> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Kirk Wallace wrote: > >> > >>> Has there been any

Re: [Emc-users] Step/Direction Drivers

2007-11-05 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Kirk Wallace wrote: Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:11:07 -0800 From: Kirk Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Step/Direction Drivers On Mon,

Re: [Emc-users] Step/Direction Drivers

2007-11-05 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 06:11 -0800, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Kirk Wallace wrote: > > > Has there been any movement on adding SPI to EMC? Paul_C updated a > > parallel port SPI driver for me to work with 2.6 kernels, so I can > > communicate with SPI devices, but my guess is, th

Re: [Emc-users] Step/Direction Drivers

2007-11-05 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Kirk Wallace wrote: > Has there been any movement on adding SPI to EMC? Paul_C updated a > parallel port SPI driver for me to work with 2.6 kernels, so I can > communicate with SPI devices, but my guess is, this is just a small part > of getting EMC to talk to SPI drives. Would

[Emc-users] Step/Direction Drivers

2007-11-04 Thread Kirk Wallace
I am starting work on my mill setup, which uses Sanyo BLDC motors and Rutex drives. The Rutex drives have SPI and step/direction inputs. Without thinking too much about it, I brought up the standard stepper configuration in Axis and before I tried to command a move, I grabbed the motor shaft and tu