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Subject: Re: motor record query
From: Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 18:19:59 +0200
Len Lawrence wrote:
> 
> A question for motor record gurus.
> 
> I have been using the motor record for some time and have encountered a
> wee problem with stopping a stepper motor after the HOMF or HOMR field
> has been set.  

I can imagine. I spent days with the motor record just to find out why
sometimes things you think should happen don't and vice versa. It took
me weeks to finally understand how the record works and how I can make
my changes without breaking everything else.

> I am assuming that HOMF/HOMR will be reset when the home
> switch is encountered so am I right in thinking that the STOP signal
> will be effectively ignored during the home seek operation unless
> HOMF/HOMR is reset?  The documentation on the Web;
> at http://www.aps.anl.gov/xfd/SoftDist/swBCDA/recMotor.html
> does not say if HOMF/HOMR is reset immediately or when the home switch
> is found.

AFAIK, HOMR/HOMF is reset immediately after the home procedure is set
up. The STOP signal obviously should NOT be ignored during a home
procedure, and as far as I remember, this is indeed the case. A STOP
lets the motor record decelerate into a stop under ANY circumstance
(although a stop during the backlash correction phase can take almost
indefinitely long, one of the many reasons I had to rewrite portions of
the record).

Ben
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