Re: ??? Using EMC with Encoder feed back

Hi Terry

I can only get two to count here also. I see that the address of the dro
board in smdromod is hard coded to 0x200. When I use that address under
dos, the dro only displays x and y also. Only the 0x220 displays four.

I believe that Paul has worked up a small fix, a dro address adjustable
from the ini file. for BDI-2.18 and it should be ready soon.

You can add an axis by copying an axis definition section in the ini.
Rename it to [AXIS 3] if this is the fourth axis. When you restart it
will display that position with tkemc and tkemcex.

Ray

>    From: "terrytwombly" <ttwombly@...>
> Subject: ??? Using EMC with Encoder feed back
>
> I have been working on a mill that is running EMC. It is a stepper
> motor cnc mill, with liner encoders and a DRO Board. I have the mill
> running quite well in freqmod.o. When I change it to smdromod.o I can
> not get the Z axis to work. EMC is not seeing the encoder from the Z
> axis. The way that I know this is that I have turned the motor driver
> off and then with EMC up and running, I have turned the axis by hand,
> and the Z axis numbers on  EMC are not changing at all. When I do the
> same thing with the X and Y axis the numbers move up and down as the
> axis is turned. I have been unable to find any information about this.
> I am using a four axis DRO Board and right now I have EMC showing
> three axis's should I change EMC to show four axis?  Or are there
> setting with end a EMC
>  con fig file some place that needs to be fixed? Or is there something
> else that needs to be done?
> Thank you
> Terry Twombly