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Hello Benny,

That's it now... Thank you very much for your support.

The only thing I had to change was:
- motion.enable
to
- halui.estop.activate

The latest version is now attached. 

Dear members,

my MESA card has arrived. It would be nice, if you could give me some information and direction, My questions are:

#1 Can I use every simple and cheap 5 VDC plug-in power supply unit or is a special quality required? How many Amps are needed?
 
#2 My DC Tacho-Motor amplifiers need an input signal from 0 - 10 VDC for the speed, I would assume, that I have to supply also something like 12 VDC to the MESA card so that the card can provide the +.10V output on TB3 PINs 4, 8 etc.  -  or where does the card get the 10VDC power from?

#3 My DC motor amplifiers (Mattke M1Q 24/5) connections are shown as below. The power for the amplifier and the DC Servo-Motor is provided separately. The only connection to the MESA should be the "Enable+" PIN to KL 8 and the 0-10 VDC set-value to the KL 7 - right?
Is there any critical interference between the GND of the MESA and the GND of the amplifier (because of KL7) to be feared ?
How can the direction of the DC-motor be reversed - would I need some relais to change the motor input cables for the case, that "Enable-" is activated?

Thanks a lot and best regards

Hartwig

 

My XML config is for Rtelligent drives so it will need reworking for your drives

@Marc_P, did you get the document?

Until the official source supports Debian 13, I quickly created the .deb files and created a repo. It works for me. Feel free to test it to see if it works on other computers; then you'd have a temporary alternative to Debian 13.



apt.dryba.com/

My Odroid H2 is now on Trixie.

Insalled rt headers, r8125-dkms, blacklisted r8169.

Touchscreen works.

Follow the last line here github.com/linuxcnc-ethercat/linuxcnc-et...uration-reference.md
Example of sdoconfig

What's tricky is the byte order of the data. LSB first, so "1" becomes "01 00" and so on.

Does anyone have examples of initCmds or sdoconfig? i want to try sending my drives SDOs to set some parameters but am struggling to figure out how exactly to create a proper XML to call using initCmds, or alternatively how to format/add some lines with sdoConfig in my main XML. the whole index/ sub index thing also confuses me (like how does one know what syncmanager idx it should be Ect...) . If anyone has a dummys guide to how all the ethercat address stuff works LMK. It seems linuxcnc uses its own special formatting compared to "normal" ethercat XML? anyway, I want to try setting my servos to absolute mode (i have batteries on the encoders) through the SDO. 

I would look at the datatypes in the MCU and make sure they are right there.
Linuxcnc reads out this info from the board/mcu.
Can't see from the video but looks like LAN9252 plus mcu.
Then this info comes from the mcu, not the eeprom or esi file.

 

> Just wondering if the existing tang primer 20K plugin will work for the tang primer 20k Lite board?

works !

Thanks! I really appreciate all the advice. Will give it a try tomorrow and report back.

Start with generic values, should be 5000/5000, direction is not important so leave it at 20000.
You can safely try Gecko settings, mark the motor pulley/shaft with a marker and set it to go back and forth several turns and several times, see if it returns exactly where you marked it, if it misses even by a very small bit, do not use those settings on a production machine.

Just wondering if the existing tang primer 20K plugin will work for the tang primer 20k Lite board? It is a simpler board than the dev board and has 117 available IO. It's not a great deal more expensive than the nano9k.

I have minimal documentation on the AXYZ stepper drives (AXI 2200 microstepper). I have a wiring diagram and some calibration data for the machine size, steps/mm, velocity and acceleration. However, I don’t have specs on the drive step timing (ie step time, step space, dir hold, dir setup) in nanoseconds.  

Is it safe to just try a few of the pre-configured Geko drives and see what happens? Overall, how big of
an issue is this and what are my options to figure it out?

 

 

Yes, G1 moves are controlled by the feed rate but G0 moves are at full machine speed
Also multi-axis G1 are coordinated but G0 moves are not.


You  could use some logic (say not + or components) or the lut5 component
in conjunction with your external spindle-at-speed signal to force  spindle-at-speed
true either when the spindle is on and the external spindle-at-speed is true or
the spindle is off.

A lut5 example might look like this:

setp lut5.0.function 0x0d
net spindle-on lut5.0.in-0
net ext_spindle-at-speed lut5.0.in-1
net spindle-at-speed lut5.0.out

A lut5 function value of 0x0d means it's output will be true either when in-0
(spindle-on) is false or if both in-0 (spindle-on) is true and in-1 (ext-spindle-at-speed)
are true.


man lut5