Re: Progress!!

> 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)

Charles:

Can you tell me whether the update you are doing to Stepster will make
it a Win95/98 compatible version? I'm glad to see that you have
'stepped' up to keep the program rolling along and up-to-date, mt
sincere thanks for taking it over.

Don Hughes
Vancouver, BC Canada

>
> 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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