Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] USC of Jon Elson

alex wrote:

>Can't I get away with one loop in a case of low speed and low
>intrtial load? This would be nice at least for
>hardware testing. Then I could build on it...
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Oh sure, for testing purposes. If you keep it under 50 full steps a second
it should work OK.

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>>This all assumes you are talking about using my board. If not, you
>>really have to do all the same stuff, but you have to generate the train
>>of step pulses, too.
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>This is good - no pilse train!
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>> You really need a real time system, or to be totally
>>sure that there are no OS routines that will steal time from your loops
>>to make your step pulses have timing jitter.
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>Dos is cheap enough for me!
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Yup, works fine on most systems, but be aware that laptops may have secret
interrupts to operate things on the motherboard that steal time from the
CNC task.

Jon