Apologies if this is in the wrong section or it has been answered before but I cannot find it after 2 days of searching.
I have a Sherline with Xylotex stepper motors. The machine was manual with DRO but I upgraded it to CNC and I can get it to run via or config picker or stepconf to a point. All numbers verified on my DRO
Config Picker - Machine runs in jog and the programs I have tried (very basic) but the distance is way off. If I say tell the x axis to move 1 inch it moves 0.5 of an inch. All axis move the same.
StepConf If I go in and tell it I'm using Xylotex on a Sherline and I set the pulley teeth (motor:leadscrew to 1 x 4 and I jog the machine 0.1 it moves consistent 0.0940 (or on a good day 0.1 my DRO is off a little and I don't know how to adjust).
So it would seem StepConf is my way to go so I loaded a basic program into it just moving the x and y to there far points in a rectangle to test and I get a high pitch whine when I hit run and the motors do not move. I stop program hit jog they move fine.
I load up the config picker run the same program it executes and the motors turn just not the correct distances, I have tried editing the ini file that config picker created to adjust Input_scale which I assume it pulley teeth ration and it works but then I get frequency errors and the motors get really hot.
I am using the standard Sherline4axis_inch.ini and standard_pinout.hal file hal has been modified to use the right pins and invert the x plane. Jeff at Xylotex did question why the standard pinout hal was being used instead of the Xylotex hal and all I can say is if I try and use the xylotex hal Linuxcnc crashes.
Any assistance to get the ration correct would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
