Re: Working ... but not quite

[Ray Henry <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Robin

You will not get the same pulse rate from Linux and from Dos using the 
same box.  Four KHz sounds good for a 150 machine.  Some report that they 
can get about 15 KHz from 450+ machines with steppermod.  You will get 
somewhat less with freqmod.

It's on the "to-do" list.

Ray


On Sunday 15 September 2002 06:56 pm, Robin wrote:
> Right ... more questions ..
>
> I'm getting 'axis follow' errors when I make rapid traverses (well ..
> slow traverses .. it quits a long time before it gets anywhere near
> 'rapid') .. what sort of maximum pulse rate should I be able to
> reliably get out of steppermod.o and a Pentium 150 ... I need around 20
> to 30khz to get best performance out of the motors ... I'm not getting
> much more than 4khz at the moment ... any suggestions?
>
>
> and ... is there a clear and concise explanation of the various terms
> in the ini file ... ?? I'm struggling to identify all the lines .. the
> handbook identifies some of the lines but some are undocumented .. am I
> missing something and theres a big lump of documentation apart from the
> emc handbook somewhere ... ?? or is this still on the to-do list .. ??
>
> many thanks.