Re: Homing STG-now working

["Les Watts" <leswatts-at-alltel.net>]

Great!

Seeing green numbers is good.

As far as the other stuff I am concentratng on a couple safety things.

They are:

(1) A spindle cutting force detector

(2) Getting spindle on to work.... or anything that will prevent
starting a program with the spindle off. As a commercial operator
I want to make the system such that a relatively untrained factory
worker can operate it safely.

As far as e-stop I strongly suggest a system that is separate from
the computer and stg board. Someting that will work even if the computer
 stuff dies. My website has one such circuit - Jon Elsons has another.

Les

Leslie Watts
L M Watts Furniture
Tiger, Georgia USA
http://www.alltel.net/~leswatts/wattsfurniturewp.html
engineering page:
http://www.alltel.net/~leswatts/shop.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurtis Martineau" <klmartineau-at-shaw.ca>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <emc-at-nist.gov>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 6:54 PM
Subject: RE: Homing STG-now working


>
> WOOHOO!!  Thank you very, very much. This is the fix that everyone who is
> using a stgII board should use.  Les says is works with his 8-axis card
and
> I can now say that it works with a 4-axis card and the newstg.c.
>
> Now...there was some talk a little while back about being able to use the
> stg card for e-stop, lube, coolant, etc, instead of the ppt.  Is this
> currently being developed?
>
> Kurtis
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Les Watts
> > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 7:36 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: Re: Homing STG
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes Paul... that should work perfectly providing that
> > bySelectBits = 0xff before the first line you show here.
> >
> > Les
> >
> > Leslie Watts
> > L M Watts Furniture
> > Tiger, Georgia USA
> > http://www.alltel.net/~leswatts/wattsfurniturewp.html
> > engineering page:
> > http://www.alltel.net/~leswatts/shop.html
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Paul" <paul.corner-at-tesco.net>
> > To: "Multiple recipients of list" <emc-at-nist.gov>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 6:36 PM
> > Subject: Re: Homing STG
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Les
> > >
> > > I think I see the problem - Those two linws need to be swapped
> > around and
> > > another line added inbetween..
> > >
> > >  EnableCounterLatchOnIndexOrExt(&theStg, bySelectBits);
> > > bySelectBits = 0x00;
> > >  SelectIndexOrExtLatch(&theStg, bySelectBits);
> > >
> > > Regards, Paul.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 27 Aug 2002 1:54 pm, Les Watts wrote:
> > > > SelectIndexOrExtLatch(&theStg, bySelectBits);
> > > > EnableCounterLatchOnIndexOrExt(&theStg, bySelectBits);
> > >
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