Re: is my software stable?

I don't want to fault the software, but the problem I was having did go away
when I changed to EMC. When I was cutting a circle segment at a low speed I
would frequently lose steps on the X axis. If I just made linear moves I was
OK. It seems in the circular moves I was hitting and trying to stay at some
speed that the combination of motor, machine and software just did not like.
As I have said, once I moved to EMC with no other changes I was able to make
the same cut without any loss of steps.

As far as the question of whether you will have a problem or not, that is a
good question and only time will tell. I can tell you that on my machine 18
ipm was about the best I could get reliably with DeskNC. On EMC with the
frequency stepper driver I can get 72 ipm reliably and am running it at 60
ipm just to keep some cushion.

Tim
[Denver, CO]

----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Vicars <jvicars@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:31 PM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] is my software stable?


> From: Joe Vicars <jvicars@...>
>
> I am running desknc from a 486 DOS only machine. So far everything
> works great, but the longest program I have run is less than 30 seconds
> total. Eventually I want to run more complicated paths, and much longer
> execute times. Am I going to run into stability problems from the
> software?
>
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