Mesa 5i25 with plain G540, no 7i77

sorry my typo, can you edit the 5i25-g540.ini file and change numpwmgens to num_pwmgens ?

No need to apologize, you have been very helpful.

Yes, I can do that. I'll try it tonight and report back.

Thanks!

Matt

Two more typos:

setp hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.04.control_type 1

Should be:

setp hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.04.control-type 1

Also I think the part in bold is wrong, should it be a number? I tried 1 (one) but that didn't work.

net hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.04.enable emcmot.00.enable

It did bring up LinuxCNC with no errors when I comment out that line. If that is for the charge pump I can turn off the charge pump input on the G540 and see what happens.

Getting closer!

I tried to upload the latest hal file but I can't get the attachment to upload. Nothing happened when I hit the "Open" button.

Thanks!

Matt

Ok good news!

All of the axis move, I need to go in and invert the Z axis since I'm using a pulley on the Z and the motor is upside down.

I also need to set the scaling to the correct number of steps.

All that's left is the charge pump assuming everything else goes Ok.

How do I get the corrected hal file up on the forum?

Thank you!

Regards,

Matt

That line should probably be something like:

net charge-pump-enable hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.04.enable emcmot.00.enable


I think you need to either rename it to end in .txt or zip it

Does it want a pin number?

Debug file information:
Can not find -sec MOT -var MOT -num 1
Can not find -sec IO -var IO -num 1
Can not find -sec LINUXCNC -var NML_FILE -num 1
Can not find -sec EMC -var NML_FILE -num 1
hm2-g540-stepper.hal:186: Pin 'emcmot.00.enable' does not exist
2102
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components

Thanks,

Matt

Sorry forgot emcmot.00.enable was a signal

net emcmot.00.enable hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.04.enable

should be correct

Yay! That did it.

Thank you for hanging in there with me.

Now, if I can figure out how to upload the hal and Ini file it might help someone else.

Regards,

Matt

Here are the hal and ini files that are working for me.

Machine

Shopfox m1111 mill, CNC Fusion Deluxe Ballscrew kit with a 14 tooth timing belt pulley on the Z axis motor and an 18 tooth pulley on the Z axis ball screw.

G540 connected to a Mesa 5i25 with operating charge pump.

Hope this helps someone.

My thanks to PCW and BigJohnT for helping me.

The machine does seem to be a little smoother, however, right now I'm keeping the axis peeds down as you can see in the ini file.

The scale values were calculated by moving the axis exactly one inch on a dial indicator and adjusted until the travels were correct.

Note the scale value for the Z axis (Axis 2 in the ini) needs to have have a minus value to move the z axis in the right direction.

Thanks again for the help.





Regards,

Matt