Re: [Emc-users] near module has me confused

2015-09-18 Thread andy pugh
On 18 September 2015 at 04:47, Gene Heskett wrote: > but something > sure seems to be getting wound up & has to be unwound before it settles. You might want to limit maxerrorI, this sounds like I-term windup. http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/pid.9.html -- atp If you can't fix it, you

Re: [Emc-users] near module has me confused

2015-09-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 September 2015 10:44:07 Gene Heskett wrote: > Thanks for the link Andy, thats very helpful. I'll have to play with > a calculator of course, some of which you see above, but now I have a > clue as to what the heck i am doing rather than blindly trying numbers > for effect. > > Chee

Re: [Emc-users] near module has me confused

2015-09-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 September 2015 05:11:47 andy pugh wrote: > On 17 September 2015 at 02:32, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So what do I set its TOL and SCALE at to achieve this, and better > > yet, how did you go about determining the proper settings to do > > that? > > It's a fairly simple comp, maybe loo

Re: [Emc-users] near module has me confused

2015-09-17 Thread andy pugh
On 17 September 2015 at 02:32, Gene Heskett wrote: > So what do I set its TOL and SCALE at to achieve this, and better yet, > how did you go about determining the proper settings to do that? It's a fairly simple comp, maybe loooking at the source code will help? http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=

Re: [Emc-users] near module has me confused

2015-09-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 September 2015 00:07:48 Jon Elson wrote: > On 09/16/2015 08:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I also told the missus that I'll break this belt, and the spare I > > bought with it, but then I strip it for the goodies and buy a real > > lathe. Throw money at it IOW. > > > > This BS has n

Re: [Emc-users] near module has me confused

2015-09-16 Thread Jon Elson
On 09/16/2015 08:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I also told the missus that I'll break this belt, and the spare I bought > with it, but then I strip it for the goodies and buy a real lathe. > Throw money at it IOW. > > This BS has not just begun to get old, its turning grey. > > The toy mill needs

[Emc-users] near module has me confused

2015-09-16 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I have a near module, comparing the pid.s.input to the filtered encoder velocity output. And the slider tach from pyvcp with an at speed led. Before I quit for the night, I looked for the reason the led turned red at about 700 revs. Tracing with a halmeter, I found no input on its