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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: Issues After Updating Mach4 & HiCON - Can't Move Motors?

« on: February 06, 2018, 10:19:45 AM »

Mauri, thanks.

I spoke with VitalSystems and they were able to get me back up and running.  They sent some new firmware and I had some firmware settings that needed to be changed.  I missed that my I/O was using J7/8 and needed to update this through the VSI manager.  The new firmware they then sent fixed my homing issue as well.

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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: Issues After Updating Mach4 & HiCON - Can't Move Motors?

« on: February 05, 2018, 01:02:01 PM »

I've noticed in the debug window that just starting the mach profile and enabling the system produces a lot of unhandled messages (attached).

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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: Issues After Updating Mach4 & HiCON - Can't Move Motors?

« on: February 05, 2018, 12:16:55 PM »

Yes, changing the gain does not seem to change anything, unfortunately.  I'm looking through the config again now at the moment.

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HiCON Motion Controller / Issues After Updating Mach4 & HiCON - Can't Move Motors?

« on: February 04, 2018, 05:15:32 PM »

I just recently updated Mach4 and the HiCON firmware/FPGA, all running the most current versions.  After updating, it looks like Mach4 connects to the controller okay, but I can't seem to move any motors now no matter what I do.  This machine worked previously so I'm not sure what may have changed.

I do get an error when trying to move things though: "ERROR: Following Error Limit Exceeded on Motor X. Servo Disarmed".  I've attached a screen shot of the debug window when this happens.

Any ideas on something I may be missing?  I believe everything is set up as it was originally and nothing has changed.  Thanks

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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: HiCON Integra with Geckodrive G320X's

« on: January 10, 2016, 09:06:26 PM »

Thanks for the feedback!

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HiCON Motion Controller / HiCON Integra with Geckodrive G320X's

« on: January 03, 2016, 04:34:34 PM »

Hello,

Has anyone used the HiCON Integra with G320X's before?  I am setting up a system that utilizes servo's and will be driving them with G320X's.  I was going through the documentation and reviewing the hardware, but was not completely clear if the HiCON Integra would be a good solution for this?  I will be adding encoders to the servos for feedback which I will split for use in a laser scanning system.

Just curious if anyone has used the Integra with a similar setup?  Thanks.