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6 years 7 months ago #161538 by rodw
Replied by rodw on topic 7i96 Configuration Tool

gusty42 wrote:

I'm using a brand new Mean Well RD-65B dual voltage power supply: 5V @4.0A, 24V @2A. Obviously only running the Mesa card off 5V


This could be an issue. I had one of these and could not it to go for what I bought it for. The company that sold it to me said that the 12 volt rail would not run unless there was sufficient current draw on the 5 volt side. I whacked a big ceramic resistor on 5 volts and I did get 12 volts out of it. I had hoped I could use it for my 7i76e but it did not draw current enough to enable the 12 volt rail.

I wonder if the 5 volt rail is a bit flaky at low current draw too? Much better to use discrete power supplies for each voltage.

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6 years 7 months ago #161540 by tommylight
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rodw wrote: The company that sold it to me said that the 12 volt rail would not run unless there was sufficient current draw on the 5 volt side.

That is very true, same is valid for all PC power supplies till several years back.
The 5V rail is regulated, the 12V is not, so the 5V needs to have some load for the regulation to kick in.
That was due to 5V rail tolerance being +-5%, or 4.75V to 5.25V, and the 12V having a tolerance of +-10% or in some cases even +-15%.

A good phone charger will do just fine for providing 5V, especially original Samsung or any other big company. Steer clear of cheap Chinese knock off's.

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6 years 7 months ago #161559 by gusty42
Replied by gusty42 on topic 7i96 Configuration Tool
Thanks guys for the input on the ps... I did read up about others having issues with their supplies, but thought this would work. I'll try my phone charger next.

@PCW I think some of the hardware info is in the bottom of the debug file I posted, but my initial concern would be the hard drive I'm using. It's a super old 12GB drive and is really loud. Was hoping it would be fine?? Had it laying around... Otherwise, my mb is an Asus A8V Deluxe and I'm using the on-board gigabit ethernet port. 1.5gb of ram I believe.
Code:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:11:2f:62:ba:3f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.10.10.9/24 brd 10.10.10.255 scope global eth0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::5b6:2fd6:209b:d1ea/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:0c:41:6c:0e:50 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.186/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic wlan0 valid_lft 5751sec preferred_lft 5751sec inet6 fe80::4a84:f54d:f669:8c3e/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

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6 years 7 months ago #161570 by PCW
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A failing hard drive can cause large latency spikes but you should be able to check this
by looking at the kernel log (via dmesg)

Another concern is the rather uncommon Marvell Ethernet chip, It might be an issue
( I know BroadCom chips are problematic with real time but these are also rare on current motherboards )

I would try a different power supply and if that does not help the ping times, a different motherboard

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6 years 7 months ago #161851 by gusty42
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Check your testcnc.hal if there is a PWM loaded at this line
loadrt hm2_eth ................num_encoder..........num_stepgens ..............num PWM
Not sure how that is all there, just from memory, i think you should have a PWM loaded there.
The error says
./testcnc.hal:99: parameter or pin 'hm2_7i96.0.pwmgen.00.output-type' not found
Or it might not been added to the servo thread.


So, per everyone's recommendations, I've now built up a completely different PC that gives me very consistent pings and pin reads! I'm also using my phone charger for 5V as well, but it's been acting like the PC was the biggest factor here as the original ps gives the same results. The results being what's found in my error report:
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Error report created by /usr/lib/tcltk/linuxcnc/show_errors.tcl: Print file information: RUN_IN_PLACE=no LINUXCNC_DIR= LINUXCNC_BIN_DIR=/usr/bin LINUXCNC_TCL_DIR=/usr/lib/tcltk/linuxcnc LINUXCNC_SCRIPT_DIR= LINUXCNC_RTLIB_DIR=/usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules LINUXCNC_CONFIG_DIR= LINUXCNC_LANG_DIR=/usr/lib/tcltk/linuxcnc/msgs INIVAR=inivar HALCMD=halcmd LINUXCNC_EMCSH=/usr/bin/wish8.6 LINUXCNC - 2.8.0-pre1-5581-gad29499e8 Machine configuration directory is '/home/cnc/linuxcnc/configs/testcnc' Machine configuration file is 'testcnc.ini' INIFILE=/home/cnc/linuxcnc/configs/testcnc/testcnc.ini VERSION=1.1 PARAMETER_FILE=testcnc.var TASK=milltask HALUI= DISPLAY=axis COORDINATES=XY KINEMATICS=trivkins coordinates=XY Starting LinuxCNC... Starting LinuxCNC server program: linuxcncsvr Loading Real Time OS, RTAPI, and HAL_LIB modules Starting LinuxCNC IO program: io Found file(REL): ./testcnc.hal Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC... hm2: loading Mesa HostMot2 driver version 0.15 hm2_eth: loading Mesa AnyIO HostMot2 ethernet driver version 0.2 hm2_eth: 10.10.10.10: Hardware address: 00:60:1b:16:01:0c hm2_eth: discovered 7I96 hm2/hm2_7i96.0: Smart Serial Firmware Version 43 hm2/hm2_7i96.0: 51 I/O Pins used: hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 000 (TB3-01): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 001 (TB3-02): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 002 (TB3-03): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 003 (TB3-04): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 004 (TB3-05): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 005 (TB3-06): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 006 (TB3-07): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 007 (TB3-08): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 008 (TB3-09): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 009 (TB3-10): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 010 (TB3-11): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 011 (TB3-13/TB3-14): SSR #0, pin Out-00 (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 012 (TB3-15/TB3-16): SSR #0, pin Out-01 (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 013 (TB3-17/TB3-18): SSR #0, pin Out-02 (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 014 (TB3-19/TB3-20): SSR #0, pin Out-03 (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 015 (TB3-21/TB3-22): SSR #0, pin Out-04 (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 016 (TB3-23/TB3-24): SSR #0, pin Out-05 (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 017 (TB1-02/TB1-03): StepGen #0, pin Step (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 018 (TB1-04/TB1-05): StepGen #0, pin Direction (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 019 (TB1-08/TB1-09): StepGen #1, pin Step (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 020 (TB1-10/TB1-11): StepGen #1, pin Direction (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 021 (TB1-14/TB1-15): StepGen #2, pin Step (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 022 (TB1-16/TB1-17): StepGen #2, pin Direction (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 023 (TB1-20/TB1-21): StepGen #3, pin Step (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 024 (TB1-22-TB1-23): StepGen #3, pin Direction (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 025 (TB2-01/TB2-03): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 026 (TB2-04/TB2-05): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 027 (TB2-07/TB2-08): Encoder #0, pin A (Input) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 028 (TB2-10/TB2-11): Encoder #0, pin B (Input) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 029 (TB2-13/TB2-14): Encoder #0, pin Index (Input) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 030 (TB2-16/TB2-17): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 031 (TB2-18/TB2-19): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 032 (internal): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 033 (internal): SSR #0, pin AC Ref (internal) (Output) hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 034 (P1-01): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 035 (P1-02): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 036 (P1-03): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 037 (P1-04): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 038 (P1-05): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 039 (P1-06): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 040 (P1-07): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 041 (P1-08): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 042 (P1-09): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 043 (P1-11): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 044 (P1-13): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 045 (P1-15): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 046 (P1-17): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 047 (P1-19): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 048 (P1-21): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 049 (P1-23): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: IO Pin 050 (P1-25): IOPort hm2/hm2_7i96.0: registered hm2_eth: HostMot2 ethernet driver unloaded hm2: unloading Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules Removing NML shared memory segments Debug file information: Note: Using POSIX realtime ./testcnc.hal:99: parameter or pin 'hm2_7i96.0.pwmgen.00.output-type' not found 14273 Stopping realtime threads Unloading hal components Note: Using POSIX realtime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Info report created by linuxcnc_info: The file: /tmp/linuxcnc_info.txt can be posted to a forum or a web site like: http://pastebin.com in order to provide information about the linuxcnc system and configuration. Date: Sat Mar 28 17:09:56 CDT 2020 UTC Date: Sat Mar 28 22:09:56 UTC 2020 this program: /usr/bin/linuxcnc_info uptime: 17:09:56 up 1:24, 1 user, load average: 0.38, 0.23, 0.19 lsb_release -sa: Debian Debian GNU/Linux 9.5 (stretch) 9.5 stretch which linuxcnc: /usr/bin/linuxcnc pwd: /home/cnc/linuxcnc/configs/testcnc USER: cnc LOGNAME: cnc HOME: /home/cnc EDITOR: VISUAL: LANGUAGE: TERM: dumb COLORTERM: DISPLAY: :0.0 DESKTOP: lightdm-xsession display size: 1920x1080 pixels (508x285 millimeters) PATH: /usr/bin:/home/cnc/linuxcnc/configs/testcnc/bin:/usr/bin:/home/cnc/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games uname items: nodename -n: cnc kernel-name -s: Linux kernel-vers -v: #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u6 (2018-10-08) machine -m: x86_64 processor -p: unknown platform -i: unknown oper system -o: GNU/Linux /proc items: cmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-8-rt-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet model name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz cores: 2 cpu MHz: 2000.000 parport: serial: Versions: gcc: gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516 python: Python 2.7.13 git: git version 2.11.0 git commit: NA tcl: 8.6 tk: 8.6 glade: not_in_PATH glade-gtk2: not_in_PATH linuxcnc_var all: LINUXCNCVERSION: 2.8.0-pre1-5581-gad29499e8 LINUXCNC_AUX_GLADEVCP: /usr/share/linuxcnc/aux_gladevcp LINUXCNC_AUX_EXAMPLES: /usr/share/linuxcnc/aux_examples REALTIME: /etc/init.d/realtime RTS: uspace HALLIB_DIR: /usr/share/linuxcnc/hallib dpkg -l '*linuxcnc*': Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-===================-============================-============-===================================================================== un linuxcnc <none> <none> (no description available) un linuxcnc-dev <none> <none> (no description available) un linuxcnc-doc <none> <none> (no description available) ii linuxcnc-doc-en 1:2.7.14 all motion controller for CNC machines and robots (English documentation) un linuxcnc-sim <none> <none> (no description available) un linuxcnc-sim-dev <none> <none> (no description available) ii linuxcnc-uspace 1:2.8.0~pre1.5581.gad29499e8 amd64 motion controller for CNC machines and robots ii linuxcnc-uspace-dev 1:2.8.0~pre1.5581.gad29499e8 amd64 PC based motion controller for real-time Linux

tommylight: what did you mean by your above statement? I'm using the exact same hal and ini as before but now I've added some spindle info using the configuration tool with hopes this would add what you were saying I might need? Also, after reading the pins with the config tool, my board reports pins 2 and 3 as PWM+/- on TB2, so that seems like my firmware is 4 StepGens and PWM like you're expecting. Any thoughts?

Thanks again in advance!
Matt

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6 years 7 months ago #161854 by PCW
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I would verify that the actual loaded firmware has a PWM gen:

mesaflash --device 7i96 --addr 10.10.10.10 --readhmid

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6 years 7 months ago #161857 by gusty42
Replied by gusty42 on topic 7i96 Configuration Tool
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not seeing much that looks like PWM... Recommend flashing it as a 4 and 1?

edit: not trying to get off topic, but what if I wanted to run as a 5 axis down the road? Would I just have to define all 5 axis with current firmware to avoid the PWM error and have a "5" in my Board Setup on the first tab of the config tool?
Code:
Configuration Name: HOSTMOT2 General configuration information: BoardName : MESA7I96 FPGA Size: 9 KGates FPGA Pins: 144 Number of IO Ports: 3 Width of one I/O port: 17 Clock Low frequency: 100.0000 MHz Clock High frequency: 200.0000 MHz IDROM Type: 3 Instance Stride 0: 4 Instance Stride 1: 64 Register Stride 0: 256 Register Stride 1: 256 Modules in configuration: Module: DPLL There are 1 of DPLL in configuration Version: 0 Registers: 7 BaseAddress: 7000 ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz Register Stride: 256 bytes Instance Stride: 4 bytes Module: WatchDog There are 1 of WatchDog in configuration Version: 0 Registers: 3 BaseAddress: 0C00 ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz Register Stride: 256 bytes Instance Stride: 4 bytes Module: IOPort There are 3 of IOPort in configuration Version: 0 Registers: 5 BaseAddress: 1000 ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz Register Stride: 256 bytes Instance Stride: 4 bytes Module: StepGen There are 5 of StepGen in configuration Version: 2 Registers: 10 BaseAddress: 2000 ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz Register Stride: 256 bytes Instance Stride: 4 bytes Module: QCount There are 1 of QCount in configuration Version: 2 Registers: 5 BaseAddress: 3000 ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz Register Stride: 256 bytes Instance Stride: 4 bytes Module: SSerial There are 1 of SSerial in configuration Version: 0 Registers: 6 BaseAddress: 5B00 ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz Register Stride: 256 bytes Instance Stride: 64 bytes Module: Transformer There are 1 of Transformer in configuration Version: 0 Registers: 2 BaseAddress: 7D00 ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz Register Stride: 256 bytes Instance Stride: 4 bytes Module: LED There are 1 of LED in configuration Version: 0 Registers: 1 BaseAddress: 0200 ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz Register Stride: 256 bytes Instance Stride: 4 bytes Configuration pin-out: IO Connections for P1 Pin# I/O Pri. func Sec. func Chan Pin func Pin Dir 1 0 IOPort None 14 1 IOPort None 2 2 IOPort None 15 3 IOPort None 3 4 IOPort None 16 5 IOPort None 4 6 IOPort None 17 7 IOPort None 5 8 IOPort None 6 9 IOPort None 7 10 IOPort None 8 11 IOPort Transformer 0 Drive (Out) 9 12 IOPort Transformer 0 Ref (Out) 10 13 IOPort Transformer 0 Null3 (Out) 11 14 IOPort Transformer 0 Null4 (Out) 12 15 IOPort Transformer 0 Null5 (Out) 13 16 IOPort Transformer 0 Null6 (Out) IO Connections for TB1 Pin# I/O Pri. func Sec. func Chan Pin func Pin Dir 1 17 IOPort StepGen 0 Step/Table1 (Out) 14 18 IOPort StepGen 0 Dir/Table2 (Out) 2 19 IOPort StepGen 1 Step/Table1 (Out) 15 20 IOPort StepGen 1 Dir/Table2 (Out) 3 21 IOPort StepGen 2 Step/Table1 (Out) 16 22 IOPort StepGen 2 Dir/Table2 (Out) 4 23 IOPort StepGen 3 Step/Table1 (Out) 17 24 IOPort StepGen 3 Dir/Table2 (Out) 5 25 IOPort StepGen 4 Step/Table1 (Out) 6 26 IOPort StepGen 4 Dir/Table2 (Out) 7 27 IOPort QCount 0 Quad-A (In) 8 28 IOPort QCount 0 Quad-B (In) 9 29 IOPort QCount 0 Quad-IDX (In) 10 30 IOPort SSerial 0 RXData1 (In) 11 31 IOPort SSerial 0 TXData1 (Out) 12 32 IOPort SSerial 0 TXEn1 (Out) Segmentation fault

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6 years 7 months ago #161861 by PCW
Replied by PCW on topic 7i96 Configuration Tool
I guess the first question should be:

Do you need PWM?

(and yes that's the standard 5 axis configuration without PWM)

Edit: I think there is a bug in the configurator program that causes it to generate
hal statement referencing PWMgen pins when not required. You may need to simply
delete these statements in the hal file

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6 years 7 months ago #161866 by tommylight
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Again,
./testcnc.hal:99: parameter or pin 'hm2_7i96.0.pwmgen.00.output-type' not found
Check what PCW said, and if there is a PWM check the line where the card is loaded...............
or just upload your hal and ini files.

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6 years 7 months ago #161867 by tommylight
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Sorry, to late.

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