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CADdy wrote:

Hakan's EaserCat 3000?
 

Experimental. Perhaps too experimental. I just bought EtherCAT stepper driver Rtelligent ECT60 and used my own IO card.

It seems like you may be on to something, there is no pyvcp in that list. I have also added other photos in case there is something that may help.

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custompanel.xml


hal files in 'ini' file


pyvcp_options.hal file

Hakan's EaserCat 3000?

I currently use a z probe routine that uses G38.2 to lower the tool into a metal puck until detecting continuity. This works 90% of the time, but there have been a few times this went wrong when either the wire to the puck had become damaged from use over time or the endmill had some plastic stuck to the tip or some resin from a wood cut, etc.

It seems much safer to manually drive the endmill down into the puck, then use G38.4 in the probe routine to move away from the puck. When I make this change and manually drive the endmill into the puck, I get a "Probe tripped during coordinate jog" error. Any ideas on how to avoid this error or how G38.4 is typically implemented?

Thanks!

Maybe you don't have a Intel MAC

lspci -nn | grep -i ethernet

Should list what you have.

Have you run a normal latency test?