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Subject: Re: Stops in the motor record
From: [email protected] (Tim Mooney)
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 16:41:10 -0600
Hubert, re...

> -- On Mar 27, 1998, [email protected] (Tim Mooney) wrote
> > I should mention that glitches on the limit-switch lines can produce
> > very similar behavior, and are by **far** the more common cause of it.
> > So don't everybody with an intermittently jerky motor immediately assume
> > their hardware is flakey.  You might just need some decoupling capacitors.
> 
> I'm not sure that this is true.  I've seen this behavior very regularly
> (with the .27 release of the motor record, VME8-8 board).  I don't have
> any limit switches in my system and limit-switch support has not been
> enabled.

Wait a minute.  You can't enable or disable limit switch support, and the
hardware doesn't care whether or not you actually have switches.

Tim

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