Another Elumatec SBZ130

Hello thank you for your reply, I'm sorry for my late feedback. Happy New Year.
The last weeks I changed the air tubes, the electronics and I tried to calibrate the short x-axis. With the calibrating I have some troubles. I have found your note of calibrating. The encoders start working at approximately 8V, I power them now with 11V.
Sometimes the raw data jumps some hundred counts up and back. The 22 Bit should be ok, I have checked it with my oscilloscope (Data+, CLK+). I always get a joint following error, sometimes strait after enabling the machine.
What do you think (and other people), is the encoder broken or a connection problem?
On the x and z axis there is a 1024x64 encoder on the y-axis a 4096x4096 (I think it is not original). For testing I changed the frequency to 100kHz.

Juhu!! I swapped the wires, and it worked, you are great!!
In the middle of the movement, the rowcount value jumped between very high and very low, and I got a joint following error. I drove the axis in the end position, dismounted the encoder and turned it by hand to a low value. After build all together, I had may first reference run without an error!
With your help I had in 20 minutes more success than the last two days!
Tomorrow I will start wiring and testing the other axis.
Yes, I am testing with your config files.

Hello,
one success and many errors! I'm slowly get confusing.
The encoder on the y-axis is, not as I described, a 1024x4096, but that doesn't matter now. On the x-axis encoder I got a good result with 100kHz, so I tried it for the y-axis too, but after changing the SSI frequency from 200kHZ (of your (tommylight) config) to 100kHz, the counts of the x-axis starts to run away. (y changed --> x doesn't work anymore??) Then I tried once again changing the wires, no success.
After installing LinuxCnc ( LinuxCNC 2.8.0 Debian 10 Buster PREEMPT-RT), I run apt-get upgrade. Could it be that something went wrong?
Do you have an idea or anybody else?

Hello,
thank you for trying to help.
The uname -a gives: "Linux SBZ130 4.19.0-11-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.19.146-1 (2020-09-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux"
Here are the config files which I last tested. I just changed to the 7i66, and played a little bit with the SSI freqency and the bits.

Hello,
a little update. As far as I can tell, the encoders are working.
I always had fluctuations in the counter values ​​and suspected faults in the breakout board used. I crimped the RJ45 connector directly onto the encoder cable and the errors were over. Until I switched on the spindle , one joint following error after the other.
Long story short, the parallel port cable that I bought with the electronics has no shielding, after I have replaced it with an old one, it works.

Now it's about the servomotors. The x-axis is not yet calibrated but does what it should. The y and z axes are a little strange. When I turn on they start to drive slowly. Pressing the jog buttons does not lead to any significant change.
I hope I still have it right in my head, for example the z-axis, has an analog output of 0.008 when the jog button + is pressed this does not change, when the jog button - the value changes to -0.008.
Can it be that the PID controller does not update? At least I expected an increase in value.
I would be very happy if someone has an idea!

I don't dare to test the long x-axis yet, because the second half has not yet been mounted and therefore no stops

I would first verify expected analog outputs with the analog
outputs disconnected from the drives. Low outputs could
be caused by a PID parameter, hal connection, or wiring error

Hello PCW,
Thank you for your help. I found a small difference between the other axes and the x-axis:(also for z, u)
After I commented out the line, everything moved nicely but still not calibrated.
I'll try the long x axis next week.
Also a big thank you to Tom