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Hello dear,
mokutil --sb-state says that EFI variables are not supported on this system. And it doesnt want to install linuxcnc-ethercat. The same dpkg error is shown. I do not know what to do...

Hi All,

Have you been using E-CAM for mill or lathe?

@deltafox24
A gcode example would help us test things.

@cmorley I guess he means a preview of rotray tool paths like this:

 


 

I don't think we understand exactly what you are expecting.
Are you talking about have a rotary table as A sitting on top of the mill?

Mach bitte ein Bild von der Karte. Die Chinesen haben Verschiedene. Sie haben auch verschiedene Baidu Links. Welchen hast du bekommen?
Ich habe die Dateien damals mit dem Baidu Downloader oder so heruntergeladen. Weiß leider nicht mehr, ob es eine Website war, oder ob ich ein Programm dazu installieren musste, aber es hat ohne Account funktioniert.

Letzte Woche habe ich meine mit dem Multimeter vermessen und die Pinzuordnung für Xilinx ISE gemacht. Konnte erfolgreich Bitfiles für meine machen. Ich kann eine Anleitung schreiben, was man machen muss. Du musst dich dazu bei AMD registrieren und Xilinx ISE herunterladen. Die Registrierung hat bei mir erst nach mehreren Versuchen geklappt. Einfach immer wieder abschicken, bis es funktioniert.

Ganz wichtig: NICHT versuchen Original Bitfiles für 7i98 zu flashen!!! Deine Karte läuft vermutlich mit modifizierter 7i92 Firmware, die eine andere Belegung zwischen dem FPGA und dem Netzwerkchip hat, daher wird die Karte anschließend nicht ansprechbar sein und kann nur noch über JTAG wiederbelebt werden. Wenn du soweit bist, testen wir das Flashen zusammen, so dass du nix falsch machst.

I'm not in the UK but I ship to the UK and have both the 7i96 and 7i96S in stock. Shipping from the USA to the UK via the USPS is the most cost effective way.

JT

I would suggest commenting out the offending line till you can get LinuxCNC to load. Then check what pins mb2hal created. I question whether mb2hal actually creates mb2hal.spindle-set-speed, usually I see pins something like mb2hal.0.1 where the first number is the transaction number and the second is the element number.

Or am I missing something? Is there a method to have mb2hal create labeled pins?

Not aware of any Mesa suppliers in UK, but these i used a lot:
Portugal: www.eusurplus.com
Germany: www.welectron.com

Not all drives are cia402 compatible. Yours probably isn't.
you need to share more info eg.
ethercat pdos > pdos.txt 
ethercat sdos > sdos.txt
and also try using lcec_configgen > configgen.xml (but there are some optional command line switches) It may create your XML for you.

Thanks for sharing! This is great stuff. My mill is from the same time period, so same problems as yours I guess. It's a 1989 Maho MH600E.

One thing though, would you mind sharing your actual config files? That whould be the absolute best way to help us others who are also trying to wotk out how to make this work. And since my machine have much the same issues as yours I'm hoping to be able to have a closer look at a config file which is actually working, and have solved this problem.

Thanks for sharing! I hope you see this and are willing to share your config files too!

Cheers

just want to say that i am following closely on this as i am thinking of doing the same retro in the coming years on a mill turn like the intergrex. very interesting. i have 7 big cnc machines all 5ton plus machines running in my machine shop and love it. pretty keen to get into mill turn at some stage but don't really want to use the old controllers. they keep dying and i seem to have so much more machine once its got linuxcnc on it. but a mill turn is a big job!

if you want to swap notes on messenger or something hit me up probably best from my website beckcnc.co.nz.

i would love to chat this looks awesome

cheers

hey guys

just wanted to report back on this dual feedback thread

I have a large cnc with 0.1mm backlash on the z axis.  so i put a scale on it and the results are awesome

i have accuracy within 0.002mm (compared to the scale accuracy at least assuming that is  good)

i tried both 1 PID loop and 2 PID loops that have the outputs summed together.

with the single loop i had the velocity PID input coming from the motor rotary encoder and the final position from the linear encoder.  and it worked but was really rough and kept bouncing back and forth with the 0.1mm backlash  

the two summed loops are really smooth and awesome  the trick is the first loop has the high resolution encoder on servo drive and that has really good performance and of course no backlash.  and I can change all the normal PID values except Integral  and the 2nd PID loop only has the linear encoder input.  and only PID setting is Integral.  so i get nice and smooth motor but still backlash from first loop and then once the axis gets close the Integral moves the last 0.1mm over a second or so.
so by the time i am cutting the machine is perfectly where it should be.  this is probably not so good for high speed surfacing stuff for that you need to remove the physical backlash.  but for a slightly slower machine its awesome.

have a look at this thread where i show some more photos of it.  its working most days now and running hard in production.


forum.linuxcnc.org/show-your-stuff/58689...ing-running-linuxcnc

cheers

 

Hi everyone,I'm looking for some help from the community with configuring a Lenze drive setup to work with LinuxCNC via the(lcnc-ethercat) driver.The Hardware:

• Axis module: Lenze ECSxM
• Communication module: Lenze EMF2192IB (EtherCAT)

The Issue: I am trying to configure the axis module control using the standard CiA402 profile. However, during diagnostics, I ran into some mapping issues:

1. When running the

   ethercat pdos

   command, the core CiA402 profile indices like

   0x6060

   (Modes of Operation) and

   0x6061

   (Modes of Operation Display) are missing. From what I’ve gathered in the Lenze documentation, these parameters seem to be strictly hardcoded into SDOs.
2. When running

   ethercat sdos

   , the master only returns unnamed indices strictly within the

   0x2000

   to

   0x5801

   range. Nothing above this pool is visible (objects from

   0x6000

   onwards are missing entirely).

Given this situation, I have a few questions for the experts here:

1. Is it actually possible to get the ECSxM + EMF2192IB combo running properly under the standard CiA402 profile in LinuxCNC? Does a native driver/component for

   ethercat-cia402

   support this particular hardware?
2. If the standard profile isn't supported out of the box due to Lenze's proprietary layout, what is the best way to handle the control? Do I need to manually map the Lenze-specific SDOs/PDOs (from the

   0x2000

   -

   0x5000

   range) into HAL, or should I write a custom XML config to handle PDO Mapping via SDO download?
3. If anyone has successfully configured this or has a working

   ethercat-conf.xml

   example for this generation of Lenze inverters, could you please share it?

Any advice, pointers, or examples would be greatly appreciated!Cheers!

deltafox24 wrote:

Have you tried running RS485 through this module? I just can't seem to get it to work.

I got it going once in a test config but then never again after I built a full config. I suspect you need to set higher timeout on the serial port but have not played again.

Honestly it sounds like you should be using a Darlington OPTO in place
of the low CTR PC817, say a LTV-815 or similar.

( PC817 mas a minimum CTR of 50% vs the LTV-815's 600% minimum )