Servo Wiring and Tuning detailed How To example Mesa 7i77.

Todd any chance you could provide your .Hal file to refrence the encoder hookups?

Sure

forum.linuxcnc.org/media/kunena/attachments/3190/Digital6.zip

Todd,

I noticed that you have this portion in your .Hal that mine dose not have.
**** Edit looks like I have everything starting at net x-pos-fb just under a different title. I'm assuming I need all the prefix setup lines as well?***

# ---Encoder feedback signals/setup---

setp hm2_5i25.0.encoder.00.counter-mode 0
setp hm2_5i25.0.encoder.00.filter 1
setp hm2_5i25.0.encoder.00.index-invert 0
setp hm2_5i25.0.encoder.00.index-mask 0
setp hm2_5i25.0.encoder.00.index-mask-invert 0
setp hm2_5i25.0.encoder.00.scale [AXIS_0]ENCODER_SCALE

net x-pos-fb <= hm2_5i25.0.encoder.00.position
net x-vel-fb <= hm2_5i25.0.encoder.00.velocity
net x-pos-fb => axis.0.motor-pos-fb
net x-index-enable axis.0.index-enable <=> hm2_5i25.0.encoder.00.index-enable
net x-pos-rawcounts <= hm2_5i25.0.encoder.00.rawcounts



Do I need to have this in my .Hal for each axis?

Also I'm assuming that my encoders counts should be moving positive when the axis is moving positive correct? If not where is that correction made?

Sorry for all the questions.

The encoder scale (and the matching line in the INI file that the variable references) are very important. the other setp lines I think are all default values and may not be nessisary.

The net line for raw counts isn't necessary and is not used in my config. and the index-enable is only needed if you are using the encoder index for homing purposes.
The other net lines should match up with ones you already have for the most part. (your existing signal names may differ)

Ok Guys, Good News!

I finnally got the opportunity to get back on the machine again and with all your help I think I got my .HAL and .INI straightened out.

So DRO seems to be working appropriately (shows movement when moved by hand w/o drive enabled) , table movement on indicator matches the DRO movement on screen.

So now opening halscope, Ive run into a few things.

1. How do you get the the display to be bigger in the grid? You can see in my attached photo that the channels are very small and hardly visible.

2. I dont seem to have the lines similar to yours but i'm not sure if thats related to the view in hal scope.

Play around with the sliders on the left and the scale sliders at the top to zoom in.