>>I was told these board where shit's of things to set up well they are not, they are too easy to set up.
I have to say its the easiest setup Ive ever done. Wiring is a bit of pain as I had to get all the various ribbons, but setting it
up is easy, and you can jog in the setup, so testing is easy. Its why I left setup in the pokeys, they did fine, why would I duplicate
it? Once we get a few users I suspect setup questions will be easy.. Rule generally is, get it jogging/homing in the pokeys ,
Auggie will take it form there.. (You'll notice Auggie has very little config..thats by design, I agree totally with Pokeys
putting the config in their device, I think it increases their versatility and is a HUGE part of why I selected a Pokeys
as the hardware I decided to work with. ).
In the interests of fairness, and because I know almost all the hardware developers, let me state categorically that
I have no affiliation with Pokeys and no sort of business arrangement, when I praise their capabilities its an honest
appraisal, and if, at some point in the future another device is as feature rich in terms of C-Libraries and open development,
I may add that to the program to allow more people to play, I want a core set of abilities before Id even consider that
though as hardware variances cause a lot of trouble during development.. not so much after..
>>on a side note in the pokeys software they seem to run the motors a bit smoother, than in auggie you can only tale by sound movement is fine. I have all motors working good, I have not tested homing yet, that will be some time this week, then I will get the limits and spindle going (does spindle control work in auggie). it will be through the G540 to a superpid.
Remember in Mach3 how Keyboard jog sounded better than planned motion? It was due to a differing way of doing the
accelerations. When you jog the Pokeys, what you hear is the old Mach3 jogging. Bang Bang accel from what I hear,
( thats not a knock, most hardware steppers are bang bang planners, but once Auggie starts doing Jogging or Planned motion,
both are SCurves planned, so timing variations are on purpose and change the sounds. Play with Jerk till your happy, but to
almost duplicate the old Mach3 sound, just set jerk of 50,000,000. That will apporach the unlimited jerk of a bang bang.
>>(does spindle control work in auggie). it will be through the G540 to a superpid.
The script calls are there. The super PID wants a frequency? Then Id feed it Axis #8 steps pulses, and in the
MainScreenInit script, call FreeSetAxisType( 8,1 ); //sets 8 to freq. mode..
Then in the SetSpindleState( state ) script, youd do something like
if( state)
{
speed = GlobalGet("SpindleSpeed");
FreeSetSpeed( 8, speed );
}
else
{ FreeSetSpeed( 8,0);
}
Thats would allow a spindle turn on and off. And you could also add such a script to a
SpindleOn button and a Spindle Off Button. To complete the safety picture, in the
System callbacks there is a script canned OnEnable() in which we can put a spindle off
command so that an EStop will kill the spindle..
When you get there we'll help and ensure the proper calls are available so your
options are large as to exactly how to set it up, and versions then will have that as a
default condition on delivery to be modified by folks with a different way of
controlling a spindle. Auggie should be able to handle pretty much all spindles,
including ModBus as Pokeys has ModBus built in as well...
>>the problem with the motors maybe because they are old sanyo decke steppers made in 1987
No way of telling yet
, with experience, we'll all figure that one out. Art