CINCINATTI MILACRON ARROW 500 (BDS4 + VFS5) WITH MESA 7i77 + 6i25 WITH LINUXCNC

Will keep the smart serial cards in mind in the future. Thank you Andy.

I tried using MesaCT to generae the ini and hal files but upon loading in linuxcnc, it produces an error.

Debug file information:
Note: Using POSIX realtime
./main.hal:31: Pin 'hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.4.analogena' does not exist
2243
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components
RTAPI_PCI: Unmapped 65536 bytes at 0x7f0b2d806000
Note: Using POSIX realtime

I do not know how to proceed. Kindly advise.

For information purposes,
Drive 0 - x axis
Drive 1 - y axis
Drive 2 - z axis
Drive 5 - Spindle

Regards,
Kelvin
 

Upload the hal and ini files here so we can have a look

What tommylight said.

main.hal:31: Pin 'hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.4.analogena' does not exist

The channel 4 above makes no sense (on a basic 7I77 configuration the analog channel would be 1)

Hi All,

This is the file mesact generated. I change the "channel 4" to channel "1" manually, and it loads to linuxcnc. I'll be wiring the 7i77 to the servo drives to test if the servo drives will respond to the jog commands. Wish me luck.

Regards,
Kelvin

Make sure the drive enables work so a runaway is stopped
before damage occurs. Alternatively, decouple the linear axis
from the motors.

A blind setup has about a 50% chance of a runaway because
either the encoder direction or analog output polarity are reversed
resulting in positive feedback = runaway.