Troubles to get started with SD240 Retrofit

 Made some efforts watching Tall83 and reading quite a bit. And I even managed to load the sv12 bitfile to the 7i80 image missing /media/kunena/emoticons/smile.png
Mesaflash returned serveral times "file xxx.bit could not be found" because I could not find out where to store it. Finally found out if you simply put it on the desktop then itt works- things can be so easy...

I made a config with the pcconf wizzard, could only detect the 7i80 by using "Discovery option" ...as it was not recognized by pcconf, finished and ran the machine. Worked fine except throwing positioning errors when jogging the axes, but seems ok as there is no hardware connected.
But when wanting to edit the existing config file with pcconf- wizzard I getto a point where I am asked to enter the number of ports
 
And no matter what I enter there I get this error message:
 

Is this normal, or did I do something wrong?
Thanks
Sigi
 

Hi everyone- no, havent yet given up image missing /media/kunena/emoticons/laughing.png
But after having shot 3 Mesas, I got them repaired luckily- this took a bit longer but now I seem to be back in the race ...
At the moment I could really use some help please. I am trying to get my motors tuned but this seems to be tricky.
the motors are Fanuc A06B_522_B042_7000  with a  AB06_650_B200 drive (the Mesas  a 7i80HD-25 and a 7i33 connected if this is of importance)
Has anyone some experience withe these Fanuc components and probably got them tuned sucessfully?
I played around quite a bit but do not get it under control.
I just can get the motor either going forth and back about 1/4 turn or if it stands still it is vibrating pretty much.
I have no experience in motor-tuning. the smaller the P value gets the smaller the forth and back movement is.
Changing the I value does not do anything, but a small D value of 0.3 almost keeps it in the position but then the vibrations come.
Any suggestions appreciated
Thanks

Sigi

Sorry, for some reason I can not edit the post-
the drive is a AB06_6050_H200

Hi, though it seems to be rather a monologue I have still not given up image missing /media/kunena/emoticons/laughing.png.  Ok mean while the error was found- the repaired 7i33 unfortunately still was not working correctly.
Now I have the two axis working properly and smoothly and would want to be able to implement a shared handwheel for the X and Z axis.
Therefore it was recommended to do a second config file with PC-Config and copy the necessary lines to the original HAL and INI files, sonot to overwrite the original config.
And so I did. But obviously I made some mistake and get an error message when starting LinuxCNC now telling me one infrmation is missing.
Can someone help me to get this corrected please? I am not able to find the mistake....

Thank you
Sigi
 

Probably important: the connected enconder is a 1000 increments TTL encoder connected to Enc3 on the 7i33 and in Halshow I could see the counts in/decreasing when turning it left/right- so it seems to work in principle and is recognized by LCNC
And I would for the moment want to be able to move the axes by handwheel without having to home the axes before.

The whole setup is  a 7i80hdt-->7i33-->7i37

You are missing the "servo-thread" for the "jogincr" component

that is:

addf hm2_7i80.0.read servo-thread
addf motion-command-handler servo-thread
addf motion-controller servo-thread
addf pid.x.do-pid-calcs servo-thread
addf pid.z.do-pid-calcs servo-thread
addf pid.s.do-pid-calcs servo-thread
addf jogincr
addf hm2_7i80.0.write servo-thread

should be:

addf hm2_7i80.0.read servo-thread
addf motion-command-handler servo-thread
addf motion-controller servo-thread
addf pid.x.do-pid-calcs servo-thread
addf pid.z.do-pid-calcs servo-thread
addf pid.s.do-pid-calcs servo-thread
addf jogincr servo-thread
addf hm2_7i80.0.write servo-thread