MesaCT Spindel

Hello,
I am in the process of familiarizing myself with the MesaCT tool. The machine can be started and the axes can be moved.
But as soon as I try to integrate my spindle via MesaCT LinuxCnc starts with an error message.
./mesa_ct_.hal:186: Pin 'hm2_7i96s.0.pwmgen.04.enable' does not exist
Who knows about this tool and can help me?
Greetings from Lübeck Germany

I'm not an expert but could suggest a few things:

1st: rename anything that has 'pwmgen.04' to 'pwmgen.00'

This is from this:

# Spindle Board Connections
net spindle-on => hm2_[MESA](BOARD).0.pwmgen.04.enable
net spindle-vel-cmd-rpm hm2_[MESA](BOARD).0.pwmgen.04.value
setp hm2_[MESA](BOARD).0.pwmgen.04.scale [SPINDLE_0]MAX_RPM
setp hm2_[MESA](BOARD).0.pwmgen.pwm_frequency [SPINDLE_0](PWM_FREQUENCY)
setp hm2_[MESA](BOARD).0.pwmgen.04.output-type [SPINDLE_0](SPINDLE_PWM_TYPE)

To that

# Spindle Board Connections
net spindle-on => hm2_[MESA](BOARD).0.pwmgen.00.enable
net spindle-vel-cmd-rpm hm2_[MESA](BOARD).0.pwmgen.00.value
setp hm2_[MESA](BOARD).0.pwmgen.00.scale [SPINDLE_0]MAX_RPM
setp hm2_[MESA](BOARD).0.pwmgen.pwm_frequency [SPINDLE_0](PWM_FREQUENCY)
setp hm2_[MESA](BOARD).0.pwmgen.00.output-type [SPINDLE_0](SPINDLE_PWM_TYPE)

Then if (and only if) you still have an error, but now about pwmgen.00 instead of pwngen.04 try replacing

This:

loadrt [HM2](DRIVER) board_ip=[HM2](IPADDRESS)

With that

loadrt [HM2](DRIVER) board_ip=[HM2](IPADDRESS) num_pwmgens=1

MODS: I believe this should be moved to HAL or PncConf Wizard.
 

Oh!

I see that on the machine tab of MesaCT you left 'PWM Generatorst' to 'NA'. This should definitively be set to 1. then you will probably don't need to change the line 'loadrt [HM2](DRIVER) board_ip=[HM2](IPADDRESS)' since MesaCT should add a reference to the pwm gen.

I think you should first do that to regenerate the config files before manually altering them.

JT wrote:

JPL wrote:

MODS: I believe this should be moved to HAL or PncConf Wizard.

 
This doesn't have anything to do with Pncconf...

JT
 
 

Except the fact that it's doing the same job