RE: EMC error message?

["Tim Goldstein" <tgoldste-at-mlh-services.com>]

Ray,

Can you detail how you went about setting your PERIOD parameter??

I have just been setting it lower and lower until EMC will not start any
more.

Tim
[Denver, CO]


> -----Original Message-----
> From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Ray Henry
> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 9:20 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: RE: EMC error message?
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> Tim
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> I set up 15-Mar today and get the same message.  Looks like NIST set up
> some more detailed messaging in this release.  If your axis
> switch polarity
> is wrong it will tell you using the standard out. I think that the message
> you're getting just means that one part has loaded and is looking for
> another before the other is ready.
>
> If you set period high enough you will get several before tkemc comes up.
> They don't seem to affect running at all.  In fact I used a combination of
> these messages and mouse pointer stutter to tell me where to set period.
> Wound up with 0.000025 on my pr300 no-name box.
>
> Ray
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> At 09:36 PM 3/19/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >Hate to be replying to my own message, but I have set up the 15-mar-2000
> >build on my real system and set the period to 0.0000083 (1/2 of what the
> >.txt file says is equivalent to 20 as I was using a period of 10 for the
> >compiled parameter). I am now getting the same error as below
> one or 2 times
> >and then the tkemc interface comes up and everything seems to work fine.
> >Still wondering about the significance of this message and how
> to eliminate
> >it.
> >
> >Tim
> >[Denver, CO]
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