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Hi all,

I have two NPN NO proximity sensors hooked up on my lathe on input 1,2 in my 7i96s. In the Pncconf wizard, when I am trying to put the 'limit and home shared' on the respective axis and home them together, both axis are moving towards the sensors, then as soon as the one axis reaches the home switch, both the axis starts the homing sequence without the other getting at the home position and then it shows "limit joint 0/1 error". But when I am changing the inputs from 'limit and home shared' to 'home', the homing sequence works properly and it behaves just like a shared limit-home switch.

Since the proper input should be the shared limit-home, is there something that I am doing wrong or am I missing something?

I have a working config running two 8i20 cards driving modified fanuc motors. And haven't been able to get my head around how to control a stepper, there's two steppers included in the firmware and I can't understand how to use them. 

I'm having problems trying to add a stepper to my config, 
I would have used pnc config originally to generate my files BUT it didn't work with my 5i22 card - which was all that was available during covid. So my config is a mash of everything I could find on this forum.  Its been working well! 
The two files below are my ini and hal files.

A "virtual Y" like most Y-axis lathes I've seen - cool.  Thanks for the explanation on the kinematics.

Your panel is spectacular, as is the GUI/HMI.

Sure, as I've suspected there's countless ways to do it better in Rio. Brilliant kit!!

That mpg.hal integration would sure be nice. Not saying this for convenience for myself, but more about the fact that those analog MPGs are extremely common, inexpensive and functioning reliably well. Wired-Rulez!!

I'll have a look at that epic conditional net's (bracket or !bracket) [FEAT]. Haha awesome, just noticed the potential power of that thing; from useless zero-conditional HAL design -to- RIO conditional programming-like HAL. Who would have tought. O M G!! 

I'll have a look at your HAL, thanks, maybe I can integrate it, but you can also write your hal-file here:

Output/Mecanix/LinuxCNC/postgui_call_list.hal

rio does not overwrite anything in this file when generating

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yes, it should be something like that, only with the wled plugin,
but that's not what I wanted to show

it's about the new killer feature

you can now write logical links including round brackets in the 'net' field

You would normally use a stepgen in mode 2 for a frequency source
not a PWMgen. If you only have 1 PWMgen, and its not needed for other
duties that should work. It will generate the requested frequency.

The reason I say this is that the PWM frequency is a global for all
PWMgens so all PWMgens  in a system would need to be ok with
a 12.5 KHz frequency if one was used for a 12.5 KHz chargepump.

If the chargepump circuit works down to 3.5 KHz, that's because
of its design.

If you set the scale to 100, you should set the value to 50 for a 50%
duty cycle (Square wave). A value of 5 with a scale of 100 is 5% duty
cycle (4 usec on 76 usec off at 12.5 KHz)

I got it working - I'm not sure why and I think I'm even more confused - but it works! I found an older post on CNCZone. You recommended setting for a C11 REV8 board. I can confirm they also work for a C6 REV6.2 spindle control board. www.cnczone.com/forums/novakon/343810-pa...814.html#post2091814

I had to bypass the spindle comp in PathPilot and add the missing items from the above post that were missing in my original hal file.

Is the below appropriate for my charge pump that requires 12.5khz signal? It works but I can drop the frequency all the way down to 3500 and it still works. Below that it does not.

setp hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.pwmgen.00.output-type 1
setp hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.pwmgen.pwm_frequency 12500
setp hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.pwmgen.00.scale 100
setp hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.pwmgen.00.value 5

What frequency is it actually putting out? Is there a frequency, scale and value more appropriate for a 12.5khz signal?

meister wrote:

You'll have to find out for yourself what's so special about it,
I only say HAL of hell :P

 

Only source code I've had to change was for the board family to be recognized as a its high-speed C7/i6 type.

/riocore/riocore/boards/MecanixDev/board.json
[-] "family": "GW1N-9C",
[+] ​​​​​​​"family": "GW1N-9C7",

/riocore/riocore/generator/toolchains/gowin/toolchain.py
Line 103:
[+]  if family == "GW1N-9C7":
[+]  prj_data.append(f' <Device name="{family_gowin}" pn="{ftype}">gw1nr9c-017</Device>')

That was the reason my PIN03, PIN13, PIN 15 (high speed bank) was not working. The Gowin was always compiling for a C6/I5 fpga type
But allpins works now!!

So I'm trying to extend my work envelope on my mills X-axis. I'd like to know if there is a way to have a second driven linear stage ontop of the main axis stage that would activate and continue x axis travel when the first axis has reached its limit.

In the positive direction, at max limit on stage-0 :  stage-1 activates until its max limit is hit.

In the negative direction from stage-1 max limit :  stage-1 activates stage-0 when it's min limit is hit, stage-0 then can travel to its min limit.

Is there a way to configure LinuxCNC to work with a setup like this?

meister wrote:

1. Created a folder ./gtc_custom/mpg/ (i.e. under /Output/LinuxCNC/)
2. Placed mpg.hal inside it (see attched source). 
3. Riogui -> Linucnc -> INI-Defaults -> HAL -> HALFILE (custom) == "./gtc_custom/mpg/mpg.hal"

For the moment this works wonder. Although I bet there are better ways to do it in Rio but I'm way too noob at it still. 

did i already mention that i have a script to visualise the HAL ?


 

Mecanix wrote:

Happy Sunday, everyone! 

Got my MPG functional in RIO. Everything works; encoder counts, selection knobs, led, fairly happy about that. Not entirely sure what else I need on that motion control board, probably nothing.
...
 

cool, did you change anything in the hal for this, or did everything work via config ?
if you had to do something to the hal please let me know, then I'll see how I can integrate it


I wasn't completely idle today either

very experimental and only of limited use,
but this example works:

You'll have to find out for yourself what's so special about it,
I only say HAL of hell
 

carpal-tunnel syndrome maybe ?
anyway in my language we don't write it that way