Plasmac upgrade woes

Phew, that was hard work! I think I got it ready to go but I'm not game to try it today!
Brand new config and after a lot of stuffing around I have added the following enhancements.
1. Finally added ilowpass to my pendant. I tried once before and it went through the roof as the default settings move it 1 meter per MPG click. This time I was more careful and only moved 1 click!
2. Added amp fault in from the Lam drivers to each joint to catch any faults.
3. Added the Lam boost feature so we run our bigger steppers at 6 amps while accelerating and decelerating and 3 amps while at cut speed where there is no load.

It would be nice to get a copy of your original config plus the actual steps you did so that I can find out where the failure was.

Phill, This is a 7i76e config where I ran out of pins and had to delete seldom used features. My breakaway was stikk wired to estop in a complex chain. I did not make a backup. I did not expect to be launched into an upgrade process without any opportunity to say no, I don't know if that was 2.8 or plasmac but it was unexpected when I opened my config. It could have been because I downgraded from 2.9

The fact of the matter is that because I started with plasma way before Plasmac was around, my config has always been atypical and any upgrade has taken a bit of manual work. There was another body of work I had to do to integrate the Lam drivers. Linuxcnc was also complaining about the order of my joints despite being perfectly happy when I set it up just after the joint axis branch was merged into master branch (which was 2.8 at the time). That was about 5 years ago. I thought it would be a good idea to go right back to basics, align the joints the way Linuxcnc now wants them and incorporate the components and 8 new pins I had wired in for the Lams. Then run the official configurator. As it is, I have another 2 hal files in my config and still expect to do more configuration when I bring in my postgui.
So in reality, I don't think it would have been fair to involve you. I will say I was a bit grumpy at the time. But after 3 days and an evening, I think the spaceship is ready for the future (and launch into orbit).

OK, I won't worry about it at this stage then. PlasmaC upgrades have been automatic since January unless they are specified as manual in the ini file.

tommylight wrote:

rodw wrote:

3. Added the Lam boost feature so we run our bigger steppers at 6 amps while accelerating and decelerating and 3 amps while at cut speed where there is no load.

That can also be adjusted in the drives, the default is 50% but can be set from 10 to 90%, IIRC.

Yes I know. How low can we go do you think Tommy? Someone I asked thought 80% might be a reasonable target. I was hoping we could do better than that