Dual bipod winch foam cutter

Hello,
I have built a winch type foam cutter and having EMC configuration problems.
I used the "hotwinch" files from the german fellow here...
code.google.com/p/emc2hotwinch/w/list
I can jog each of the 4 winch motors independently but gcode X Y moves don't move all in snyc to make moves.

I am pretty sure the .hal and .ini files are edited correctly for my pinout.
I think I have kinematics file in the right place.

Any ideas what is wrong?

~*Brian

kinematics file is in /usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/emc2/dualbipod.ko

here is the guys website www.cnc-hotwire.de/

my hotwinch.ini file

my hotwinch.hal file

another .hal file that is used

could be a number of things , which no doubt you have checked , ... missing steps is the obvious ,
is your power supply capable of supplying all the current needed for 4 steppers at the same time , and is your stepper motor wireing heavy enough , are all the steppers tuned and configured the same .

can you explain more in detail as to what results you are achieving .

i would look more at a hardware problem or stepper tuning

can you give more information on your hardware setup
and we can see if we can pin it down

Yes! switching to world mode with $ worked. thanks for the tip Andy.
now I can mdi move all...
"right" side bipod is X & Y
"left" side bipod is U & V
Guess that means my g-code will be special...
command X & U together and Y & V together.?

now I need to get steppers tuned, how is best way to do that?
the current settings don't move motors smoothly or nearly fast enough.

motor specs say to use around 1000 pps
so what values should I use for time, space, hold and setup?

4 wire bipolar motors, .8amp/phase

Driver board is a 4axis TB6560 from China (yuk... I am sorry I bought it, docs are crap)
Board can microstep 1, 1/2, 1/8, 1/16 what should I use?

1 revolution of the winch is 1.0" of cable

power supply is 24volts 15amps



Thank you.
~*Brian

andypugh wrote:

bvandiepenbos wrote:

now I need to get steppers tuned
…
motor specs say to use around 1000 pps
so what values should I use for time, space, hold and setup?

Steppers don't normally need tuning, they ought to just work.

You can't really get step timing information from the pulse rate, that is governed by the driver not the motor.
However, you can say that 1000pps and 200ppr = 5rps, = 3000rpm = 3000 in/min

sorry, but ya lost me here?

~*Brian