Ethercat random jitter fix

Hi,

I installed and tested the new driver.
The installation went smoothly, and the driver is working.
I’ll be testing it thoroughly over the next few days.
I can’t comment on the jitter or synchronization issues, as I haven’t experienced any problems in that regard.
Nevertheless, I’d like to provide some feedback.

Great work

So i installed this on a redone setup of 2.9.8 and im getting constant random joint and limit errors. even mid program. they seem to stem from random spike encoder frames. sometimes it goes 10 mins without anything, sometimes you can move for 1 second without one.

I am not 100% sure they are related to this patch, or what this patch is meant to fix. But its rendered my machine pretty unusable. (i redid the machine to add a 4th axis)

Any thoughts?

ihavenofish wrote:

So i installed this on a redone setup of 2.9.8 and im getting constant random joint and limit errors. even mid program. they seem to stem from random spike encoder frames. sometimes it goes 10 mins without anything, sometimes you can move for 1 second without one.

I am not 100% sure they are related to this patch, or what this patch is meant to fix. But its rendered my machine pretty unusable. (i redid the machine to add a 4th axis)

Any thoughts?

From a message from grandixximo

Also the Ethercat repos have changed to point to linuxcnc-ethercat
The instructions in my Ethercat sticky have been updated so also follow them
2.9.10 ISO should install the new repos mentioned but follow the  instructions in step 2
forum.linuxcnc.org/ethercat/45336-etherc...-how-to-step-by-step
 

rodw wrote:

Code:

can try for now to do loadrt lcec ... initf lcec.activate servo-thread addf lcec.read-all servo-thread

thats already in my hal

I did find something interesting. at least specifically on the 4th. when it give a joint error, the encoder position INVERTS, as does the display. And it STAYS inverted. so ill be jogging at 900 degrees on the A... and then joint error and it become -900 degrees.

I dont know if the other axis joint errors are also inverting, i cant "see" them yet. If they are they are returning back to position the next frame. The rotary axis for some reason doesn't return, it just flips sign.

ok, the joint error is something else. it happens at 912.45 ALWAYS. it must and over run of something. we have like 800 million counts per turn of the axis, so its inverting at 2 billion encoder counts.

Ill put this in my other thread as it i dont think has to do with the ethercat jitter problem.