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Just wanted to update, I spent many weeks verifying the wiring on the machine, and everything looked good from that standpoint. So I went back to the PID settings with a different approach, and have seemed to land on some stable settings that make the machine work correctly! The tool changer also needed some PID tuning and now seems to make all changes correctly.

Still have to set up the touch off probe and tool setter before I start making chips, but progress will be much slower with winter here

So wanted to thank everyone for offering help on this! When starting out you don't know what you don't know, and that made getting to this point difficult.

I’ve got an issue. I have a 7i95T board and Pico Systems brushless DC drivers that take PWM input. I assume I need a new firmware to convert all step/dir to PWM? Can anyone help me?  Additionally, I assume this won’t interfere with the 2 serial ports?
Charles

I'm most interested in using a non linuxcnc axis output to move a stepper motor for carousel motion, I'm fine with the rest of the macros being required and it being somewhat hybridized.

for the load tool not in carousel, I will be doing some extensive rewrites on the atc macros very soon which is what prompts my question, I would like to try and do both the "all macro" and "carousel comp/macro hybrid" edits in parallel while my mind will be saturated with the knowledge...lol I'm sure you can appreciate the benefit in that, its a good bit to keep track of and much easier when its all fresh in the brain.

The new data Base tool table feature is going to be a game changer for probe basic as it will add quite a bit of awesome functionality for those using atc's. the ability to have tool parameters stored and be accessible in the DB to be used in macros will make all the difference in what can be automated and simplified.

I am pretty excited to start work on it, just shoring up a few things in the shop before I can get to it. if you want to share what you have going on that would be a great start I'm sure!

Thanks Spumco!

Chris