Zenford Zeigler Retrofit

snoozer77 wrote: maybe its just a noob thing.

Definitely not a noob thing. I do it all the time (I was doing it today). It's the best way to isolate small parts of a bigger system to see what is really going on.

The noob part definately wasnt using the halmeter. it was being so excited just to see some numbers on the meter, instead of 0. haha

Andy, Do you happen to have a basic hal, ini file i could look at from your mill. Im also using 5i24, 7i49, 7i44, 7i84. similar to your mill setup. Thought it would be nice to see a working file set, to learn off.
All good if thats not possible.

thanks

snoozer77 wrote: Andy, Do you happen to have a basic hal, ini file i could look at from your mill.

I will try to remember to post it tonight. But be aware that it is far from simple now, and runs a rather unique firmware (7i49 + 7i39)

Thanks Andy. No great hurry. After playing with the resolvers in terminal, i finally got axis to load up after editing a 5i23 servo and encoder setup in pncconfig. i have your lathe hal and ini to help work out the changes needed to get the resolvers to be accepted in my hal.

I did have a query about some gpio pins that keep changing state from true to false in halmeter? Its only from gpio.002.in to gpio.010.in.not. All other gpio are either true or false. I have only the 7i49 connected to the 5i24 at this stage.

Matt

If the GPIO are not connected to anything then possibly they are picking up RFI from somewhere.