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Hi PCW,

I found a card locally that seems similar to the Sainsmart breakout you had mentioned. I'll add the link below. It says its for Mach3 and LinuxCnc, would this work with my Mesa 7i96s. Thanks so much for your help. Interface Board CNC 5 Axis

Thank you, 


I managed to correct 2 errors myself in addition to the 2 you indicated to me but I can't find this one.

[codeVERSION=1.1
PARAMETER_FILE=linuxcnc.var
TPMOD=
HOMEMOD=
TASK=milltask
HALUI=halui
DISPLAY=qtvcp qtplasmac
COORDINATES=X Y Z
KINEMATICS=trivkins coordinates=XYZ
Starting LinuxCNC...
Starting LinuxCNC server program: linuxcncsvr
Loading Real Time OS, RTAPI, and HAL_LIB modules
Starting LinuxCNC IO program: io
emc/iotask/ioControl.cc 786: can't load tool table.
Starting HAL User Interface program: halui
linuxcnc TPMOD=tpmod HOMEMOD=homemod EMCMOT=motmod
twopass:invoked with <> options
twopass:found ./UDP2.hal
twopass:found ./custom.hal
twopass: Error in file ./UDP2.hal:
    Pin 'motion.float-switch-input' does not exist
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
Running HAL shutdown script
Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules
Removing NML shared memory segments

Debug file information:
Note: Using POSIX realtime
3280
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components
Note: Using POSIX realtim]

I use abs position, when set to zero i reset encoder multiturn position.
If you need a ini setup for abs, late copy this side a config.

Oh, damned... Thank you for the brief explanation.
The root of all the trouble seems I understood this totally wrong.
I thought "selected axis" and also the "increment" was taken from the AXIS screen- both can be chosen there 
Sorry for my sillyness. Now I understood that I need to connect the MPG in the HAL via in/outputs.

Thank you both of you

​​​​​​​Sigi
 

Thank you so much PCW and Jimmy, I will do more research into the options you have both suggested and see which would be easier for me to implement.

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Hi MTate01, thanks for your posts. I have my RS 750E drives jogging. My next step is to wire the E stop.

I don’t know what differential input e stop means or how to wire that circuit. The manual seems to indicate that 24v gets wired to both pins 19 and 21. What is supposed to happen to the voltage on pins 19 and 21 when the e stop button is pressed?

Hey thank you so much, this worked.

Any chance you used program numbers O9xxx or O8xxx .This needs parameter setting (3202) to edit from CNC
google for Fanuc manual B–63525EN/02 page 405 & 428
It should be in EDIT mode and EDIT key enabled.
However you may not be able to delete the active foreground program , the program number which usually shows on top right of the screen.
Could you able to select different program to foreground or not? only the foreground program Number will run in Auto.
The last selected or ran program only will be active as foreground program till you select another program to foregraound.
There is Background edit . it is different 

 

Try this mpg configuration, you need one toggle switch to choose incremental or continuous jog mode, one 3 position selector switch and one MPG encoder. This configuration will work for hardwired or ui based switches. I am showing the configuration for hardwired system.but if you need to use soft switches replace hm2.7xx... with exposed ui switch adresses. If you experience jog acceleration issues just play with jog acceleration value right now it's set for 1.0. 


#

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# 3 axis hal mpg configuration

# This section will set the jog mode using a hardwired toggle switch
# switch open incremental mode switch closed continuous mode
net set-mode hm2_7ixx.your input-address-of-toggle-switch 
net set-mode joint.0.jog-vel-mode 
net set-mode joint.1.jog-vel-mode 
net set-mode joint.2.jog-vel-mode 
net set-mode axis.x.jog-vel-mode 
net set-mode axis.y.jog-vel-mode 
net set-mode axis.z.jog-vel-mode 

# Set jog scale (as per your configuation 0.1)
net mpg-scale 0.1
net mpg-scale joint.0.jog-scale axis.x.jog-scale 
net mpg-scale joint.1.jog-scale axis.y.jog-scale 
net mpg-scale joint.2.jog-scale axis.z.jog-scale 

# Set jog acceleration (value between 0 and 1)
net jog-accel 1.0
net jog-accel joint.0.jog-accel-fraction axis.x.jog-accel-fraction 
net jog-accel joint.1.jog-accel-fraction axis.y.jog-accel-fraction 
net jog-accel joint.2.jog-accel-fraction axis.z.jog-accel-fraction 

# Joint selection (enable only one at a time)
net mpg-select-x joint.0.jog-enable axis.x.jog-enable <= hm2_7ixx.your input x address of selector switch
net mpg-select-y joint.1.jog-enable axis.y.jog-enable <= hm2_7ixx.your input y address of selector switch
net mpg-select-z joint.2.jog-enable axis.z.jog-enable <= hm2_7ixx.your input z address of selector switch

# Connect encoder counts to all joints (only enabled one will move)
net mpg-counts  hm2_7ixx.your mpg encoder address
net mpg=counts  joint.0.jog-counts  axis.x.jog-counts
net mpg-counts  joint.1.jog-counts  axis.y.jog-counts
net mpg-counts  joint.2.jog-counts  axis.z.jog-counts

Could you post your configuration files? I still have been unable to get homing to work correctly with the Lichuan LC10E and a home switch.

Following is a hal netlisting for the MPG part of your question:

# Set jog-vel-mode to false (joint will move exactly jog-scale units for each count)
setp joint.0.jog-vel-mode 0
setp joint.2.jog-vel-mode 0
setp axis.x.jog-vel-mode 0
setp axis.z.jog-vel-mode 0

# Set jog scale 
setp mpg-scale 1.0
net  mpg-scale joint.0.jog-scale axis.x.jog-scale 
net  mpg-scale joint.2.jog-scale axis.z.jog-scale 

# Joint selection (enable only one at a time)
net mpg-select-x joint.0.jog-enable axis.x.jog-enable <= hm2_7ixx.your selector switch input
net mpg-select-z joint.2.jog-enable axis.z.jog-enable <= hm2_7ixx.your selector switch input

# Connect encoder counts to all joints (only enabled one will move)
net mpg-counts  hm2_7ixx.your mpg encoder address
net mpg=counts  joint.0.jog-counts  axis.x.jog-counts
net mpg-counts  joint.2.jog-counts  axis.z.jog-counts

"Only problem is, i don't know how to write the bitfile permanently to the flash."

i have seen somewhere that to write to nand on this board you need to pull IO2 (R2578) next to flash to ground to boot in JTAG mode, flash nand, then release it up to boot from nand as default. some people install a switch there but damn, those resistors and pads are tiny. 

 

github.com/machinekit/mksocfpga Hostmot2 FPGA code for SoC/FPGA Zynq platforms

looking at the hm2_soc_ol driver code this is for pci cards,  based on 5i25 driver

Not that i am aware of, and now we know what you're after we can easily point you in the right direction: Get another PC!
Having two machines controlled by the same PC is not safe as any issue with the PC would stop both machines, together with the materials scraped that may or may not be recoverable.
If space is the issue, most monitors have at least two inputs, some can show both inputs at the same time, some also have KVM so connecting mouse/keyboard to monitor will switch those whenever you switch monitor inputs.
Keep in mind having two PC's on the same monitor without a KVM has the inherit drawback of clicking on keyboard/mouse several times till it dawns it's the wrong PC on. Done this a lot as i have a monitor in the shop with 7 inputs and usually 2-5 PC's connected.
What about using laptops? There are several i tested that work OK for normal "non mission critical" use:
forum.linuxcnc.org/18-computer/54369-use...mesa-ethernet-boards