Re: [Emc-users] etch-servo pwm output to servo amp's input?

2008-08-12 Thread Jim Coleman
the spindle / tooling arent a draw bar like on a bridgeport, they have pullstuds in the back, which get grabbed by some kind of mechanism inside the head, im still curious to see how it goes about doing it, I know its spring tensioned and hydraulically released. the amps look identical at a

Re: [Emc-users] etch-servo pwm output to servo amp's input?

2008-08-12 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 17:20 +0100, Jim Coleman wrote: the spindle / tooling arent a draw bar like on a bridgeport, they have pullstuds in the back, which get grabbed by some kind of mechanism inside the head, im still curious to see how it goes about doing it, I know its spring tensioned and

Re: [Emc-users] etch-servo pwm output to servo amp's input?

2008-08-10 Thread Jim Coleman
Runaway is something i was worried about, and I still havnt determined the culprit of why the Y ran off that last day the machine was in service in the shop it was in. So far I know that the A and B signals from the encoder are good, havnt tested the z, znot, anot and bnot yet, and I have to

[Emc-users] etch-servo pwm output to servo amp's input?

2008-08-09 Thread Jim Coleman
Tonight I hooked up the jogwheel and one of the motor's encoders (100 line and 2500 lines) to the parport, and with turning up the ferror in the ini I can use it like a DRO, turning the encoders moves the axis readings. I was wondering if i could just build an H bridge or similar switching

Re: [Emc-users] etch-servo pwm output to servo amp's input?

2008-08-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:34 -0400, Jim Coleman wrote: Tonight I hooked up the jogwheel and one of the motor's encoders (100 line and 2500 lines) to the parport, and with turning up the ferror in the ini I can use it like a DRO, turning the encoders moves the axis readings. I was wondering if

Re: [Emc-users] etch-servo pwm output to servo amp's input?

2008-08-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:54 -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:34 -0400, Jim Coleman wrote: ... snip I was wondering if i could just build an H bridge or similar switching circuit to run the output between the -12 and +12V rails on an AT or AT power supply, maybe use 7809

Re: [Emc-users] etch-servo pwm output to servo amp's input?

2008-08-09 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Jim Coleman wrote: Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:13:17 -0400 From: Jim Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] etch-servo pwm output to servo amp's input?

2008-08-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 00:13 -0400, Jim Coleman wrote: I've hooked the encoders to the parport right now just to see if I could get that feedback working directly from the encoders to the parport. My goal is to get closed loop motion out of my motors without having to buy a card like a mesa.

[Emc-users] etch-servo

2007-08-29 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
I'm looking at the etch-servo config in emc2-trunk, and I'm not seeing pwmgen.*.pwm-freq getting set. Does that mean it's left at 0, and pwmgen does PDM? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk

Re: [Emc-users] etch-servo

2007-08-29 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:50:02AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I'm looking at the etch-servo config in emc2-trunk, and I'm not seeing pwmgen.*.pwm-freq getting set. Does that mean it's left at 0, and pwmgen does PDM? Yes, I think that's true. Because the on- and off- times are long (1