Electronic spindle gearbox

I cannot find the file linuxcnc/src/hal/components. Is it hidden. What is the first location? Home, documents, etc. ?

Ya, I can feel your frustration with me. I'm not real savy in ubuntu. I thought that was what you did but when I tried it it didn't work. I must have spelled something wrong. Worked this time. Now to try to get it working in hal

upon further review I've found that I have a input from the spindle drive that's called slow which pulls to ground when the spindle is slow enough to change gears so the timer is not needed but instead it needs to wait until the slow signal come true. second item is I installed the dev package at the office and have to do a re install of the software at the shop and do not have internet there to just install off the internet. What is your suggestion on the best way to download the files and put them on a disc and install them that way? I know this is off topic but can the gscreen be installed offline as well? Thanks!

Hi Andy, I have not done anything with this yet. I struggled with the tool changer and had some other bugs which turned out to be bad OE wiring. There are a few bugs but I'm thinking when I do the update they should be gone. I have some time to work on this and could use your help. would I use a if statement or the spindle slow signal from the drive? Also how would I handle the spindle values in the In file? they are different for each speed range.

This is what I came up with. do you think it will work?

component ebox "electronic gearbox component";
licence "GPL";

pin in bit spindle-slow
pin in bit spindle-on-in;
pin out bit spindle-on-out;
pin in float spindle-speed;
pin out bit relay1;
pin out bit relay2;
pin out bit relay3;
pin out float spindle-gearbox-output-scale
pin out float spindle-gearbox-out-min-limit
pin out float spindle-gearbox-out-max-limit
pin in float spindle-gearbox-low-output-scale
pin in float spindle-gearbox-low-min-limit
pin in float spindle-gearbox-low-max-limit
pin in float spindle-gearbox-mid-output-scale
pin in float spindle-gearbox-mid-min-limit
pin in float spindle-gearbox-mid-max-limit
pin in float spindle-gearbox-hi-output-scale
pin in float spindle-gearbox-hi-min-limit
pin in float spindle-gearbox-hi-max-limit
function _;

;;

FUNCTION(_){

// Only do anything if the spindle speed has changed

if ( absf(spindle_speed - last_speed) < 50) {
spindle_on_out = spindle_on_in
} else {
spindle_on_out=0

if (spindle-slow=0){
wait
} else {


if (spindle_speed >= 2500){
relay1 = 0;
relay 2 = 0;
relay 3 = 1;
spindle-gearbox-output-scale = spindle-gearbox-hi-output-scale
spindle-gearbox-out-min-limit = spindle-gearbox-hi-min-limit
spindle-gearbox-out-max-limit = spindle-gearbox-hi-max-limit
} else if (spindle_speed < 1200) {
relay1 = 1;
relay 2 = 0;
relay 3 = 0;
spindle-gearbox-output-scale = spindle-gearbox-low-output-scale
spindle-gearbox-out-min-limit = spindle-gearbox-low-min-limit
spindle-gearbox-out-max-limit = spindle-gearbox-low-max-limit
} else {
relay1 = 0;
relay 2 = 1;
relay 3 = 0;
spindle-gearbox-output-scale = spindle-gearbox-mid-output-scale
spindle-gearbox-out-min-limit = spindle-gearbox-mid-min-limit
spindle-gearbox-out-max-limit = spindle-gearbox-mid-max-limit
}}}
}

Haven't seen any of the issues you talk about I'm new to programming c. I was thinking that you would want to constantly monitor the commanded speed and if it changes ranges then interrupt the spindle command , wait until the spindle slow command, change the parameters then reengage the spindle command. I'm not real pontificate in programming so I'm taking some online courses. I'm thinking a while loop is what I should use. Does that sound right?

I've been writing and testing in classic ladder because that's what I know best and have wrote something like the following. if commanded speed is <=1200 its gear 1 if it's 1200> and < 2500 it's gear 2 and if its >=2500 it's gear 3 then if the commanded gear # different than set gear # stop spindle wait for spindle slow and then set the gear. then wait a second and turn the spindle back on. also somewhere in the mix needs to be if its this gear true these parameters are true. I wrote this in classic ladder to test my theory and it seams to work. I did't impalement it into my machine just ran in ladder changing the values thou.