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Hi...just so I understand...I get 7i96s...goes from pc to BOB which already has motors wired through drivers..those existing motors can be controlled through linuxcnc? and 5 more could be added from 7i96s board..is that right/

Thanks!!,
Rick

JT

I made a custom component for my mill that basically takes all the inputs works out the step size per click and what not.
Instead of having a mess of Hal logic it’s all self contained.
I’ll drag it out over the weekend.

When I go into the file.txt file, make corrections manually and save it, there is no problem. But I cannot replace it with a new file.txt file, I get the error that the file is in use.
While the python code is running it won't let me replace it with a file of the same name

HI
Firstly, thank you very much for this outstanding work. I have installed from the ISO provided, no errors, works as intended. 

I was not planning to use Ethercat, but when i bought new drives for one of my machines, i forgot to specify that i want an analog interface, so they supplied Ethercat drives...so i figured i would give it a go, and i am pleased with the result

I have a PC with 2  network adaptors, and i managed to set up a Mesa 7i92 on the other port, which works, but im having "error finishing read" issues. Im told that this is a known issue with Debian 12 and Realtec NIC's. Will search on the forum for a sollution, though i am pleased with the result so fat.

Thanks again for the effort

Henk

Temperatures are below 50deg C. But the machine is showing it would move, but it doesn't. I have to completely shutdown and restart, then maybe it is working.

Yes, those are constants from the .ini file.
Each LinuxCNC configuration consists of one
or more hal files and one ini file.

I now know this from hal tutorials
loadrt threads name1=test-thread period1=1000000


but in my-mill.hal, I find this line to load the thread

loadrt [KINS]KINEMATICS
loadrt [EMCMOT]EMCMOT base_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]BASE_PERIOD servo_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]SERVO_PERIOD num_joints=[KINS]JOINTS

what the square brackets and what inside the square brackets mean.? I think they are constants to be retrived from the configuration I made in the stepconf wizard





 

I have a small rotary table I'm trying to get working. It has an old MCG servo (Model
MCG 2234-M4903) attached to rotate the table. MCG has been out of business for a while, and there's not a ton of info out there about these motors.

According to the servo's label (see picture), it's 50 oz-in, 2 amps, and 3000 rpm. I think it probably takes 60V.My main goal is finding a suitable servo driver with good LinuxCNC compatibility.

I assume LinuxCNC works with servo drivers in a similar way to stepper drivers. I'm using a Mesa 7i96s for my interface board.The servo motor itself has an old DB-style connector with 15 pins (two missing) and a 4-pin DIN-style connector. I'll have to figure that part out later.If anyone has any info or tips, I'd appreciate it.Thanks. 

Oliver, bit of a heads up; I'm keeping all of Sunday free to play RIO and motion controls (way too fun man). On that great Sunday agenda is this MPG implementation!!

When you have time to think about it, I'd love to hear about creative way(s) to implement this MPG into Rio in the most simplistic possible way (aka for noob!). At least some hints as to where to begin with this, and I'll figure out the rest (coughs lol).

what that means..?

Thx Guys, I've tried your settings cakeslob but in my case it was bad, really bad.
After more testing I've found right settings at :
P_GAIN = 38
FF1_GAIN = 1
DEADBAND = 0.0001

So far those are the best ones. I will keep testing those values today after work.

Sorry if wrong topic but would this be possible with pokeys57cnc?

It is great controller card but I would prefer not to use mach3/4

I did a linuxcnc clone tag: v2.9.3
Then added : linuxcnc-ethercat and set path to halcompile, then did make, and make install.

Then edited the axis_mm.ini configuration to run with ethercat.
It's maybe unusuall to add a extra thread for the ethercat bus, but it works.

Now i can test the ethercat production machine.