Re: starting up EMC/STG II day 2 A PROBLEM!

[Paul <paul.corner-at-tesco.net>]

On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 11:09 pm, Les Watts wrote:
> Today I actually fired up the motors and amps. With a lot of
> fiddling I got jog motion on all axes. I started with low P
> gain values and worked up. Servo phasing was easy.
>
> I had to flip amp enable and fault in the .ini. I misinterpreted
> the documentation I guess.
>
> The hard-wired e-stop circuit works well.
>
> The only problem is homing. Pressing HOME on the GUI
> starts motion in the proper direction in all axes. but actuating
> the home switch does nothing; it just keeps going in the same direction.
>
> The dos-based STG.exe test program detects the home switch and latches on
> the index pulse properly, at least for
> AXIS_0. That is all it tests.
>
> I tried flipping the home switch polarity and even the index
> pulse differential lines with no effect.
>
> This one has me stumped. There seems to be very little documentation for
> the EMC homing function. I don't even know
> what side of the switch will be considered home. Does it bounce or go
> through?
>
> I am using the BDI EMC_RUN, emc.ini (modified) and
> bridgeporttask.
>
> I have not messed with any cycle times.
>
> Was the homing commented out on this build?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Les
>
> Leslie Watts
> L M Watts Furniture
> Tiger, Georgia USA
> http://www.rabun.net/~leswatts/wattsfurniturewp.html