[melee]

Hi

I am trying to migrate a fully working lathe set up under Mach3 to EMC2.
I use Linux for everything else so would like to use it for CNC too.

When I set up my data in stepconf and then try to jog axes, I get nothing.
On checking I found that the charge pump is not activated and no amount of button clicking will do so.

It is a standard 12kHz charge pump linked to Pin 1 on the Par Port and works perfectly under Mach.
The board is a DIYCNC PCPPS Breakout board.

All I can think of is that EMC maybe requires an EStop to be specified and at present I can't do that because it is built into my MPG pendant which works on a second Par Port. address.

Has anyone got any ideas or had this problem themselves?

regards

Melee

[debetto]

Stepconf does not genrate the chargepump signal. You would need to temporarily disable the chargepump on the BOB to use the jog keys in stepconf. When actually running EMC, you can have the chargepump re-enabled and everything should work assuming correct settings.

[melee]

Thanks for the reply.

I have never been able to test the axes from within Stepconf and now I know why.

However I obviously didn't explain properly.
I created the configuration using Stepconf but when I run it with EMC, the charge pump is not activated, so nothing moves.

I can unlatch the Estop button and press the On button, the axes become available and are shown as moving when jogged.
Because the charge pump is off nothing actually moves.

The stupid thing is that I have had a machine jogging under EMC with another card from the same source and this card works perfectly under Mach.

Maybe I need to look at the pin bindings a see if Pin 1 is actually being linked to the charge pump or if stepconf has just ignored my input and done nothing with it.

If anyone has info re the best way to do that I would be grateful, meanwhile I will try working through all the documentation again

regards

melee

[melee]

Hi

Using Google instead of searching the forums eventually unearthed an oblique reference to the same problem.

Stepconf generates a HAL line
net estop-out charge-pump.enable iocontrol.0.user-enable-out

This binding of charge pump and estop was preventing the charge pump working, even when I re-configured my Estop back to a pin on my first Par Port

Substituting
net estop-out iocontrol.0.user-enable-out
net charge-pump <= charge-pump.out

solved the problem and I can now jog axes.

BTW I 'upgraded' version 8.04 hoping stepconf had been improved.
It generated a .hal file which threw up pages of errors and EMC refused to start!
I think I shall be hand coding the rest, as I find out how to do what I want.

regards

Melee