Help needed to get my 7i76E + 7i85S + 7i73 on my mill going.

Thanks Rod,

Starting to pick up pieces here and there how all this works, I will give this code a whirl and see how it goes.
Just need to collect my bones so I can get moving around a bit as I had a tough night with cramps in the legs

Cheers
Bengt

OK, rewired the brake and now connected to Output 14

Edit HAL and got first error on loadrt timedelay count=1, names=brake_delay === Comma
Next error after taking comma away is === count= and names= are mutually exclusive

Any hints on what to edit/add ??

You have to either use "count=" to say how many you want, or use names= with a list of as many names as you require of the component.

So, you probably just want:

The alternative format is

Small syntax error = servo_thread corrected to servo-tread

But next one is like this

Found a partial problem, now LCNC starts but no delay or activation of Output 14 occurs.

Hal lines now:
# --- MACHINE-IS-ENABLED = POWER UP SERVODRIVES ---
net machine-is-enabled hm2_7i76e.0.7i76.0.0.output-11

# --- BRAKE ON 5 seconds after machine on , off with machine off

---

setp brake_delay.on-delay 5.0
setp brake_delay.off-delay 0.0
net bdelay-in brake_delay.in
# brake is connected to output 14 so turn it on with delay.

net bdelay-out brake_delay.out hm2_7i76e.0.7i76.0.0.output-14


Suggested HAL lines that stops
net machine-is-enabled <= motion.motion-enabled ================= took this out
net machine-is-enabled => hm2_7i76e.0.7i76.0.0.output-11
# --- BRAKE ON 5 seconds after machine on , off with machine off

---

setp brake_delay.on-delay 5.0
setp brake_delay.off-delay 0.0
net bdelay-in brake_delay.in <= machine-is-enabled ================= took this out <= machine-is-enabled
# brake is connected to output 14 so turn it on with delay.
net bdelay-out brake_delay.out => hm2_7i76e.0.7i76.0.0.output-14

I'm glad Andy helped out while I was sleeping! Sorry about the errors in my example

This line was already in your hal file but much further down. It can only appear once. I just included it in the example for completeness. So taking one instance out was the right thing to do.

motion.motion-enabled is what will turn on with your machine. You need to send a value to brake_delay.in for brake_delay.out to have any signal to send to your output pin. I like to keep signlas close to where they are used.

Instead of this, try:
Sorry about that. I still don't know enough about hal to just write it without looking at an example. This should be the correct syntax now

Gday Rod,
will give it a whirl tomorrow after my night of sleep soon now just looking on TV for a while,

Cheers

Ooops, I think it is

OK now I have motion on 3 axis (A-axis is coming in near future) and the brake works as wanted. Thanks Rod and Andy.



As you can see I get some errors so fine tuning of motor parameters needs some editing.

Z homing is going in wrong direction,

Awesome! Homing direction is controlled by the sign of the various homing velocities in the .INI file.

I'll let Andy or someone respond about the errors but I think it will be something to do with these

You might like to read up on them as they are well covered in the documentation. Step scale sounds very large. 5000 steps per mm? if correct and you have microstepping settings, try reducing it.