Re: Progress!!

Ian,
Well, I have an admission to make - I'm re-writing (Maintaining) Stepster!
The thing is, so many things could be wrong, and I'm ONLY working with
code (I don't have a CNC Mill - YET - anyone have some cheap ideas for my
Sherline)

There IS a Stepster E-Group at

http://www.egroups.com/list/stepstercnc/

or to subscribe

e-mail

stepstercnc-subscribe@egroups.com

My GUESS is one of 2 things - The most likely is that the 486-66 can't RUN
faster than that, OR you're using steppers that are a bit weak for your
mill, and you loose steps

Charlie

At 06:16 PM 5/25/99 +0100, you wrote:

>From: "Ian W. Wright" <Ian@...>
>
>Hi,
>
>I've actually made some progress on my CNC mill project. After a lot of
>fruitless experiment I've finally got a usable driver circuit working
>and I now have motors rotating in response to the PC.
>However, they only seem to do so at quite a pedestrian pace and I
>wondered if anyone can give me any advice on 'fine tuning'. I am using
>Stepster on a 486/66Mhz PC and I have currently set the 'PC speed
>factor' to 2500 - everything else is as the default set-up. However, I
>can't get the motors to step reliably with a 'F Rapid' factor greater
>than '%30'.
>Is this normal or should I adjust something to speed things up? I have
>read the description of how Stepster works and find it almost
>unintelligible and unhelpful in that it doesn't give any indication as
>to which way the factors should be adjusted and by how much.
>I am very much an amateur at this and hope that you will treat me gently
>for which I thank you.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Ian
>
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