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I've been away on sick leave for a bit.
Just getting back to work on ' trail' basis.

What i find is that there are some issues with the Z settings.
My machine is setup as 600x900x-200mm Home is 0,0,0 of course.

Procedure:
Home the machine.
Move the spindle and put the 3D probe in the ER collet.
Then run the Toolsetter macro. To my knowledge this sets the tip at 39.2mm above the bed.
Then I probe the work piece corner (werkstuk_tasten...) This should set G54 to the offsets from machine home, right?
Then I replace the probe with a mill (actually a lollypop stick for testing purposes). And run the toolsetter routine. I remove the workpiece to mill air while getting the bugs sorted out.
Then I load a program. The Touchy GUI shows the program movements etc on the screen. What i see is that it is correctly positioned in the X and Y but that the Z is to high up in the machine volume (red box on the screen).
Running the program errors out on that it runs out of Z distance wanting to go higher than is available.

So my question is on how to set the height coming out of the toolsetter routine.
The distance from Z-home (0) to the bed is unknown to enough of a certain height to be useable, right?
Or is there some other issue at hand?

You can use the old drivers as Todd said. But, sometimes, changing everything is easier. I already kept old servos on a retrofit, then two years after I changed them because there were damaged .
Delta B2 are ok.

Hi langdons,
yes the chinese has only 1,5kW instead of 2,2, just 320 Hz, no vector, no safety settings and outputs, no rs232 programming, it's cost is only 1/4 of the Hitachi. It is 3 years old, mostly layd in stock, has had 7 hours this year since built in, mostly parametring and testing time, but the 10V problem was from the beginning and sucked. Hitachi made a costless repair on it. I think, there's nothing wrong with the VFD itself, but sth has changed in Linuxcnc. But where?
(Hitachi is founded in 1910 and in the US since 1959, Hitachi VFD's are very common here in Europe and I have no doubt about their quality)
 

Hi guys
I'm a beginner with Mesa electronic boards and I'm retrofitting a Realmeca T200 cnc lathe ( analogs drivers ).
The configuration I'm implementing is 7i97T+ 7i74+ 7i84+ 7i73 with the bin file 7i97T&7i74d
I have a PWM version error, and I need to find the latest version of the bin file 7i97T&7i74d
Can anyone help me?
Thanks
 

Thanks, I went through referenced thread, not sure I understood any of it.
I have an Asix Electronics Corporation AX99100 PCIe to Multi I/O Controller (prog-if 03 [IEEE1284]),

If there are known cards I could buy I’d rather buy a known working card.

This is for a CNC machine, so just the first step of many.

Thanks,
Ted

Ofcourse! 

I've included them as an attachment.

I hope you have some good insights into my setup. 

Thanks in advance.

EDIT:

I now also use the following step timing:

DIRSETUP   = 500
DIRHOLD    = 500
STEPLEN    = 1000
STEPSPACE  = 1000
STEP_SCALE = 1000

In addition, I changed the |DISPLAY|MAX_VELOCITY and the |TRAJ| VELOCITY settings. I have also increased the other velocity limits accordingly.The machine is now performing better than ever!
Surprisingly, I'm no longer getting any following errors—I'm not entirely sure why, but I’m definitely not complaining. ?Thanks to everyone for the input and suggestions!

Can you post your complete hal/ini files?

QtDragon has not put any extra effort to facilitate a manual setter, but I don't see why you couldn't use one. Could you describe the process you wish to use for setting tool length?

everything is working now thanks

Hi there,

Not sure how much help I can be as I've never gotten the 83 error before. I did find this on the forum, not sure if you've seen it ( www.forum.linuxcnc.org/ethercat/45007-et...hen-exiting-linuxcnc ) but it only applies to exits.

If you'd like I can run upstairs later today and grab my config files to share, although I don't think I really messed with them much beyond the PID from the files tpa58 shared.

Does the Chinese VFD still work?

Is there any downside to it compared to the Hitachi?

AFAIK, Hitachi has not made elctronics for a long time.

How old is this thing?

Using Hyper-V is probably a bad idea.

QEMU will probably be better.

Though you will get awful latency compared to a bare-metal install.

Hello Community,
many things are working nowadays with  Linuxcnc 2.9.2 with Probe Basic on a MESA 7i76e. But:

A few weeks ago I had to change my Hitachi VFD because it had no 10V output for spindle supply from the beginning. I sent it to service in April and I had to get the 10V from a separated power supply, this worked fine with a chinese VFD for the time the Hitachi VFD was in service.
Last week the Hitachi came back from service, the 10V Out was working, but surprisingly I cannot make MDI speed commands any more. I set S6000 or S12000, press Enter, in the spindle display on the right side 22000 occurs and I can press FWD Button but nothing happens.
IN the HALSHOW there is
0 at spindle-out
0 at spindle.0.speed.out
0 at spindle.0.on
0 at spindle.0.forward. Tested with S6000, S12000 S24000.

All this worked fine with the chinese VFD before.
So, I thought my 7i76e card is burnt up (I did not change any of my HAL or INI files since I sent my Hitachi away), but surprisingly further experiments could deny that.
Speed instructions from a file are working as they should. E.g. my warmup file - spindle turns in the right direction, right speed, right display down right.
Parameters are the same in the Hitachi as before.

Do you have any idea what could have happened here? I'm totally clueless...
Thanks for any hint and help!

Hanno
HAL and INI Files:
    

Presuming there is nothing wrong with the original servo systems, then usually the best option is to reuse them. You will need to figure out how the existing cnc controlled the servos. If they were using step/dir signals then the 7i76e should be a good option for the retrofit. If the servos were commanded using analog signals or some other way (such as some kind of serial bus), then some other hardware might be more appropriate.

What is the difference between your psng and lib/python/gladevcp/builtin-panels/versa-probe ?