Re: [Emc-users] Step & Direction for use on Servo Amps

2012-10-09 Thread Todd Zuercher
Of course you can. I have a machine set-up running like this now. But as some others have already said, the speed of software step generation will be your limiting factor. If I had to do it over I would have taken a different route with my set-up, and used hardware step generation (probably w

Re: [Emc-users] Step & Direction for use on Servo Amps

2012-10-08 Thread Jon Elson
Steve from Tube Gauge wrote: > Can the stepper motor 'step & direction' output from EMC2 be used to > run a servo based system that has step & direction input amplifiers > where the servo motor encoder feed back goes into the amp and not EMC2? > I believe the Yaskawa Sigma II amps can run in t

Re: [Emc-users] Step & Direction for use on Servo Amps

2012-10-08 Thread andy pugh
On 8 October 2012 17:44, Steve from Tube Gauge wrote: > Can the stepper motor 'step & direction' output from EMC2 be used to > run a servo based system that has step & direction input amplifiers Yes, absolutely. In fact there are at least two ways to do it. You can run open-loop, sending positi

[Emc-users] Step & Direction for use on Servo Amps

2012-10-08 Thread Steve from Tube Gauge
Can the stepper motor 'step & direction' output from EMC2 be used to run a servo based system that has step & direction input amplifiers where the servo motor encoder feed back goes into the amp and not EMC2?   I believe the Yaskawa Sigma II amps can run in this mode.   My thought was to build