[Emc-users] example configs for running servo/encoder machine as velocity mode stepgen with pid loop

2011-09-07 Thread Tom Easterday
I am trying to configure a gantry machine (X,Y,Y,Z) which is built with Gecko 320X drivers connected to servo motors. I originally had a parallel breakout board driving the Geckos (doing step generation in EMC) but was getting random high latency on the D510MO motherboard and strange behavior

Re: [Emc-users] example configs for running servo/encoder machine as velocity mode stepgen with pid loop

2011-09-07 Thread Tom Easterday
Chris, I built the current (beginning) config from the latest PNCCONF you sent me - I think that is the 2.5 version. With help from the iRC (thanks, skunkworks) and a friend I was able to get past an estop problem at the end of today, so now I will be looking at the rest of the config. It

Re: [Emc-users] example configs for running servo/encoder machine as velocity mode stepgen with pid loop

2011-09-07 Thread Tom Easterday
On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:47 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 8 September 2011 01:39, Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: It cannot use the index on step/dir drives, or so I have been told by several EMC developers. it ought to be able to in velocity mode, but I suspect that that was the entry point