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Hello, I can control my X, Y and Z axes in the Stepconf Wizzard without any problems, but as soon as I start the normal program I can only move the X axis, the Y and Z axes can no longer be controlled. 

Maybe this is helpful:

linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/plasma/qtpl...tml#_using_qtplasmac

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During setup of the axis (pncconf) and I test the axis movement, it works perfect.
But from Linuxcnc itself i only get it half distance. HOW?
There is no encoder feedback to the Mesa board as the closed-loop is handled between the drive and motor.
It seems others are having similar issues, but i can't get a clear picture of how they fixed it other than basically running double distance in the wizard to get it to do the correct distance in Linuxcnc. But adding complexity with the speed and acceleration.

lead in and lead out is implemanted, M3/5 on every cut also,
but no nesting

tommylight wrote:

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It's a fuse and a switch in the same box, the picture shows 2 of them.
 

Thank you tommylight,

I understand now. When I searched for "automatic fuses", I did get correct result, such as this one www.aurinkopaneelikauppa.fi/Automatic-Fu...30V-AC-slow-Type-C-2; but I confused them for circuit breakers.

Best regards,

...behai.

 

cmorley wrote:

It's in a library file. qt_action.py

github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/2.9/li...cp/qt_action.py#L754
 

In this function where in the GUI can set the parameters
search_vel, probe_vel, max_probe, z_offset, retract_distance, z_safe_travel, rtn_method
?

M3 and plasmac feed rate at the start of every cutAnd M5 at the end of every cut.
Also simple nesting or just ability to change the order of cuts would be nice to have.
And lead in and lead out with the option of no lead out.

rodw wrote:

For a control box, the simplest way is to use a switched, EMI filtered and fused IEC connector
www.amazon.com.au/uxcell%C2%AE-IEC320-Sw...Filter/dp/B01FT0VRTS
You can see one of these used at the bottom right of my photo shared earlier.

But in your case, this won't work if you want to switch the router on and off because the current of the router will be too high for the typically 6 amp AC rating. Plus you would not want the electrically noisy router to be on the same side of the EMI filter as your electronics.

So in your case, I would use a fixed power lead and a cable gland to bring mains into the control box to two household breakers around 10 amp. One of these will protect your router circuit and the other your electronics, On the electronics circuit, immediately after the breaker, fit an EMI filter
www.jaycar.com.au/240v-ac-emi-filter/p/MS4001
Then connect all of your power supplies to the filtered mains power.

Filtering the power is really important to avoid spurious triggering from electrical noise. I learnt the hard way.

The next thing to work out is your estop. That's a bit tricky because you need to disable the router and the stepper motor power supply without using any relays that could fail. The estop needs to drop power to your router power and  stepper mains motion. You could use 2 phases of a 3 phase breaker but technically you would then need  to use a safety relay to be compliant.
Its probably acceptable to disable your stepper drivers using the enable pins on them that are usually left disconnected.


 

Thank you Rod,

I have been thinking about your advice on the router, I am trying something I don't have any practical knowledge of, I will just leave this one out, I will get the other three working, as my knowledge increase, I might rewire it again. This just my hobby project. But I really like learning electronics now, I have always been afraid of it.

You are right, the ENABLE pin on the CLT57T-V41 is left unconnected. During my learning of this driver, I used only the Raspberry Pi 4 and Python to program it, setting ENABLE to high disables the motor.

Best regards,

...behai.
 

it was on a belt drive with an omega style configuration.

Hakan wrote:

Can it also do g-code for plasma cutting?
 

Don't have plasma and can't say what is needed, but if you tell me what is missing I can expand it

Can it also do g-code for plasma cutting?

Okay, I will also make a video about what's happening and post it 

I have see value 1 on much example the xml file and not have problem with this value on debian 10 , lcnc 2.9.0-pre0 and ethercat 1.5.2.

I have test on debian 12, lcnc 2.10.0 and etehrcat 1.6.3 with value 1 and 5 and 1000 , but have error synch 5000 ms foe every drive.

only with -1 the error disappears.

What I don't understand is why on Debian 12, when LCNC starts, the PDO information is written to HAL after a few seconds and in sequence, one Ethercat node at a time from 0 to 5, while with the Debian 10 configuration, the PDOs are immediately read and updated in HAL, as soon as LCNC is running.

another difference between debian 10 and debian 12.
I use PCs with two ethernet ports.
With devian 10, with ip a I have 2 network cards enp1s0 and enp2s0,
while with debian 12 I have three, the two physical network cards and one with written: eoe0s0, which is created when ethercat is running.

Could it be that ethercat 1.6.3 unlike 1.5.2 uses a virtual card that in turn closes on a real one?

Why do you use refclocksynccycles=1? That's low.

for 2.5D you can try github.com/multigcs/viaconstructor/