Mori MV 35/40 retrofit

Which pins are you halscoping? Perhaps there really is a scale?

clkeck1 wrote:

Pid.0.error

That should be scaled the same as the encoder position, and that is normally scaled to exact axis position.

If you halscope (or halmeter) axis.0.motor-pos-cmd then move the X axis by 1 unit, does the pin change by the same amount?

If so, then everything is scaled the same.

I would be tempted to try the 10x f-error and see how a test part works out.

clkeck1 wrote:

Machine seems to be running well.

Glad to hear it.

1. Is there a way to turn the flood coolant on/off while a program is running using the external inputs?

Yes, but you first need to decide what behaviour you want. Consider the 4 combinations of the G-code command and the external button, and decide which behaviour you want in all cases. (Actually, you might something even more complicated, where a change of state in the G-code is always followed, but a press on a momentary button toggles the state). You can then build up a structure of AND, OR, NOT, latch, edge-detect etc logic blocks in HAL to sit between the motion.coolant-flood EMC2 output and the pin which controls the physical relay.
First decide what you want, and then we can try to figure out how to do it.

2. Is it possible to setup a tool touchoff button that records the current g59 z position as the z offset for the current tool in the spindle? Kind of like the current axis touchoffs.

If you look at the bottom of the drop-down in the touch-off dialog, after the coordinate systems there is a "T" which means that the calcualted offset goes in the tool table. Is that what you want, or do you want something else?
You could create a PyVCP or GladeVCP button to call an MDI_COMMAND. I think you would want something like G10 L1 Z[#5383 - #5422]
Reading list:
www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/hal_pyvcp.html
www.linuxcnc.org/docview/devel/html/gui/gladevcp.html
linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gui_halui.html#sub:MDI
www.linuxcnc.org/docs/2.5/html/common/ma..._id_sub_parameters_a

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