Wednesday, November 2, 2011

The first test run

I finally got a parallel cable. Well, actually I couldn't wait any longer for the delivery, so I made my own cable, since I found two spare connectors and a piece of ribbon cable in a drawer :-).

When connecting the cable and configuring EMC2 (from http://www.linuxcnc.org/) I found an other error in the documentation. It stated the wrong (50) steps per revolution on the motors, and after emailing tech.support, I got it verified. The correct value should be 200 steps per revolution. That explains why I only got a quarter scale of everything. They will put out an errata, informing everybody about the error.

Here is a time-lapse video of my first test run with the machine:


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