Re: [Emc-users] linear motor tuning questions

2012-07-06 Thread Ralph Stirling
sample of data. -- Ralph From: Viesturs Lācis [viesturs.la...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 12:31 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] linear motor tuning questions 2012/7/6 Ralph Stirling : > I'm looking forw

Re: [Emc-users] linear motor tuning questions

2012-07-06 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/7/6 Ralph Stirling : > I'm looking forward to answers to those questions myself :-). > Theoretically the AS5311 encoders have 2um resolution. I am > going to be doing some repeatability testing tomorrow with an > LVDT to try to verify the encoder performance. Force measurement > is a little

Re: [Emc-users] linear motor tuning questions

2012-07-05 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Jon Elson wrote: > Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:17:04 -0500 > From: Jon Elson > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] linear motor tuning questions > &

Re: [Emc-users] linear motor tuning questions

2012-07-05 Thread Jon Elson
Ralph Stirling wrote: > That did it! D=0.12 gives me much smoother f-error at > higher accelerations. I had always assumed that derivative > term would make oscillations worse, so didn't play with it > much. At D=0.14 new oscillations appear, but at D=0.08 to > 0.12 the 10Hz resonance disappears

Re: [Emc-users] linear motor tuning questions

2012-07-05 Thread Jon Elson
Ralph Stirling wrote: > I have my prototype linear motor running now, but I'm > observing a rather severe resonance under higher > accelerations. This oscillation is about 10Hz, and > generates following errors if I don't have wide limits > on f-error. I've attached a halscope plot illustrating >

Re: [Emc-users] linear motor tuning questions

2012-07-05 Thread Ralph Stirling
-- Ralph From: Greg Bernard [yankeelena2...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 6:59 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] linear motor tuning questions Wow! That is really cool, Ralph! I would love to hear more details about your

Re: [Emc-users] linear motor tuning questions

2012-07-05 Thread Greg Bernard
n out before we tackle that. -Thomas Edison, inventor (1847-1931) > > From: Ralph Stirling >To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) >Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:21 AM >Subject: [Emc-users] linear motor tuning questions > >I have my prototy

Re: [Emc-users] linear motor tuning questions

2012-07-05 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Ralph Stirling wrote: > Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:39:41 + > From: Ralph Stirling > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] linear motor tuning questi

Re: [Emc-users] linear motor tuning questions

2012-07-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 July 2012 17:21, Ralph Stirling wrote: > Right now I have my pid parameters set pretty > basic: > > P = 5.0 > I = 0.0 > D = 0.0 A little bit of D might kill the resonance. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ---