Koike Aronson Plasma Conversion - sanity check on Mesa board selection?

phillc54 wrote:

tommylight wrote:

Using PlasmaC or QtAxis PlasmaC or QtPlasmaC?

There is no QtAxis PlasmaC that I am aware of.

Ooopps...
Could not recal what the name was, still can't.

If you are meaning this one , it is based on AXIS like the old PlasmaC, it is not a Qt GUI.

Yes, that is it.
Thank you.

Hi all, 

Looking to help a friend do the same thing as this thread, but with a 7i97T for the servos and a 7i78 card for the stepper for Z and THCAD2 for Arc Voltage. 
I could use some help reviewing the hal and ini files to see if I'm on the right track.  I built a stepper machine before with a 7i96s and THCAD2, so have some experience with the setup using PNCCONF.  This is my first attempt at editing the ini and hal files directly.  I combined the basic 7i97 file, with the JT's configurator tool, and the plasma specific info from my 7i96s config.    My main question is how to correctly identify the board names in the files.  In the ini file it shows 7i97T as the board and 7i78 as the card, but I don't see how the 7i78 board gets translated to the hal file?  Ignore the scales, drive values, and pin assignments for most of the signals for now. 

Also, the servos are Cleveland Motion Controls p/n MTE3528-508BG, does anyone know how to determine the encoder scale on these?  May just have to measure it once the system is configured.  

DRIVE = TB6600
The above should not be in the ini file, or it must be omitted by putting # in front of it.
We need more info on the drives/motors and general description of the machine.
Another thing wrong with the ini file is the PID values are all 1, they should all be 0 except P (start with 10 to 50) and FF1 (start with 1 and lower it as needed when tuning the drives).
You should really read this first and make sure the stuff checks OK before powering the machine as it might run the motors at full tilt if something in wiring or config is not OK
forum.linuxcnc.org/10-advanced-configura...ning-detailed-how-to

Thanks for the reply, I'll make those changes.  Most of the values are just placeholders for now, trying to get the overall structure of the files right and then will populate the specific values.   The machine is the same one as in this post, it has a servos on X and Y and a smart stepper motor from Animatics on the Z, which we may replace with a simple stepper driven by a TB6600 stepper motor driver.  The servo drives are from Advanced Motion Controls (BE15A8) www.a-m-c.com/product/be15a8/ and the drives are from Cleveland Motion Control MTE3528-508BG.   Also, thanks for posting the servo tuning link. I read through it a few times already and will definitely follow that when we get to that point.   In the files, how can I confirm that the stepper driver is getting assigned to the 7i78 vs the 7i97T?