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Third party software and hardware support forums. => PoKeys => Topic started by: N4NV on February 05, 2011, 04:27:37 PM
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I am not having much success in getting my MPG to run with PoKeys. It did work when I had it connected to pins 13 and 15 of my BOB. I have it connected to pins 1 and 2 of the PoKeys board. I have disabled fast encoders in the pokes set up. I have chosen pin 1 as encoder channel a and pin 2 as encoder channel b (I did write the configuration to the device). I have tried not checking x2 sampling and checking it as well. In ports and pins, Encoder/MPS's I have set the MPG #1 port for 10 pin 1 and port 10 pin 2 and have the enabled the MPG. When I look at the PoKeys0 data diagnostics, the LED blinks for pins 1 and 2. In Mach, I made sure I was in MPG mode in the jog menu. On the PoKeys Config screen in Mach the only thing I did was uncheck enable fast encoders and checked Use encoder 1 pokeys map to 0.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
I could not find a manual for the Pokeys plug in other than the online help screens. Is there a full manual available?
I did have this MPH running with my Pokeys a year ago, but it lagged so bad I went back to hoking it directly to the BOB.
Thank you,
Vince
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I found the problem. In the Pokeys plugin I needed to have the pokeys encoder 1 mapped to Mach encoder 4. This makes no sense to me, but I found it in the PoPendant instructions (I am not using a PoPendant). The movement when in the .001 jog step is smooth enough for using an edge finder, but in any increment larger than that, it gets very jerky. Is there a setting that can be used to smooth this out. On the Haas machine at work, the MPG makes a very smooth table movement.
Thanks,
Vince
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Vince,
Did you find a solution to smoothing out the MPG. I'm having the same issue on a new machine conversion and can't seem to get a smooth jogging movement.
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No solution for smooth movement. Brian is writing a new plugin for the pokeys, maybe that will help.
Vince