Pressbrake CNC Control Setup Questions

Yes, you need to write the firmware file to the 7I92TM:

mesaflash --device 7i92t --addr 10.10.10.10 --write 7i92t_7i77x2d.bin --reload

Thank you. I didn’t know i had to execute the script somehow. I finally got to the take the card in the readhmid and the discovery, but i still can’t attribute pins to the 7i77, although it appears as a non-selectable board.

Should i attribute all pins now through manual hal programming? Wouldn’t it appear as a board tab like tb1, tb2 etc ?

 You do not need to use discovery (pncconf has a 7i92/7i77 setup built in),
you just select 7i92 internal data and 7i77x2 Digital I/O is setup in the 7I77 IO SS#0 tab

 

 
 

Exactly and i tried that once. But i still have trouble as it doesnt recognize any 7i77 pins. I also tried removing this output and just leaving the pwm gens i set for each axis, and i get a similar error 
but for analogout0-scalemX not found.

You don't have field power applied (orange connector) 
so no 7I77 digital I/O will be available.

Also, you have the 7I77 connected to the second 7I92 connector
It should connect to the first (you can plug them directly together)

i didn't know that i could connect them together!!
i wired 24v to each end of the orange connector as in the manual and now it detects the analog outputs. once i get back to it i will be connecting them together aswell.

thats why it only was detecting it when i used the discovery option or when i used the double board config, because i was only detecting the SS #4!

thank you a LOT for the help! i will now be trying to modify this files to work on my config.

i have every got every motor/encoder and signals of the machine in detailed manual connections from someone who used to design these machines at the manufacturer (really nice 60/70 yo retired man) so it will be a cool project!

santy wrote:

I haven't had success opening the other gui presented here with the Gauge tonnage reader.
 

I have that GUI opening for me on Debian Bookworm with the latest updates.
I attached my latest file. Unzip to /linuxcnc/configs/ make sure file "bender" is set to "allow executing file as program".
Double click "bender" and choose "Run in Terminal".
If it does not open, report what it shows in the terminal.
 
 

ok that seems to work better now! i was using the linuxcnc launcher to run the ini like a normal config, and it was weird that i was including the code to load the pressgui.ui but only the press.comp gui was appearing!

now i got the bender to run.

so now i should be editing the bender.hal file, with the respective pin changing from 7i97 to my HMOD or 7i92 scheme.

What i don't understand is why do i have my output/pwm signals referring to the 7i77, and my encoders refer to the ethernet card (7i92). shouldn't i be using the encoders in the 7i77? I just can't get them in PNCCONF.
for example analog out works in the 7i77:

net x-output     => [HMOT](CARD0).7i77.0.1.analogout0
net x-pos-cmd    <= joint.0.motor-pos-cmd
net x-enable     <= joint.0.amp-enable-out
# enable _all_ sserial pwmgens
net x-enable   => [HMOT](CARD0).7i77.0.1.analogena


but my encoders only mention the HMOTCARD0. although i think i should be connecting them to the 7i77... 
setp    [HMOT](CARD0).encoder.00.counter-mode 0
setp    [HMOT](CARD0).encoder.00.filter 1
setp    [HMOT](CARD0).encoder.00.index-invert 0
setp    [HMOT](CARD0).encoder.00.index-mask 0
setp    [HMOT](CARD0).encoder.00.index-mask-invert 0
setp    [HMOT](CARD0).encoder.00.scale  [JOINT_0]ENCODER_SCALE

net x-pos-fb               <=  [HMOT](CARD0).encoder.00.position
net x-vel-fb               <=  [HMOT](CARD0).encoder.00.velocity
 

That's correct, the encoder hardware is in the FPGA
(the 7I77 just conditions the signals)

7I97 encoder names will be the same (but with 7I97 instead or 7I92)
that is , CARD0 in the ini file will be "7i97" instead or "7i92"

thank you! although it seemed easier now, i quickly ran into problems with analogout. 7i77 uses a different terminology for the "analogout" pins and the 7i97 uses "pwmgen". this caused me some confusion as in my pnc generated config i see:

[HMOT](CARD0).7i77.0.1.analogout0-scalemax

and in this config there is something like:
hm2_7i97.0.pwmgen.01.scale 1

and some of these pins aren't available to directly change either to
[HMOT](CARD0).7i77.0.1

because there i think there is no parameter"pwmgen.01.offset-mode 1" for the 7i77 or 7i92, so im a bit lost as to how to convert this system.

also, you have used a 7i87 to input the pressure. i probably don't have a way to do this in my setup without also buying a 7i87, right? could it still connect to either the 7i77 or the 7i92?

thank you!!