Re: [Emc-users] Yaskawa Motorman robot absolute encoders (andy pugh)

2013-09-27 Thread Rudy du Preez
I now have to use the value to set the absolute position for the joint, but have not found the best way to do this in Linuxcnc yet. Any ideas from the experienced Linuxcnc users on this? I _think_ that might be as simple as just wiring the value to axis.N.motor-pos-fb -- atp Thanks Andy -

Re: [Emc-users] Yaskawa Motorman robot absolute encoders

2013-09-26 Thread Rudy du Preez
I have managed to read the initial serial data which defines the absolute position of an axis. The A and B channels of the absolute encoder are taken to the 7i33 on P2 of a MESA 5i23 as usual, The A channel which also carries the serial data when enabled initially, is also taken to a GPIO input on

Re: [Emc-users] Yaskawa Motorman robot absolute encoders

2013-09-26 Thread andy pugh
On 26 September 2013 09:12, Rudy du Preez r...@asmsa.co.za wrote: I now have to use the value to set the absolute position for the joint, but have not found the best way to do this in Linuxcnc yet. Any ideas from the experienced Linuxcnc users on this? I _think_ that might be as simple as