Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Parameter setup for the 4th axis - Newker CNC controller

Loads of parameters in there that seem to relate to various speeds and ratios:

  • The axis speeds are in mm/min or degrees/min (not degrees/second!!), so the correct number would be of the order of 1200-1400, given that the driver and motor bomb out at about 15 seconds per turn.
  • The units are important too. I have 2000 steps per turn set up on the stepper driver and the controller seems to generate 4 pulses per "step", so I need 8000 on the numerator and 1900 on the demominator (# in "axis" parameters). Not clear quite how all that works but certainly, the indicated units for the A axis correspond with degrees movement on the table.
  • The A axis acceleration for the "rampit" (rapid) homing move works nicely when you ask it to home the A axis. If you set the number too low, it takes forever to get up to speed.
Must make some simple g code so I can test it out to see if it behaves sensibly.

2 comments:

  1. Hi are you familiar with this controll? I have a 990T newker and i can t get much from the manual on how to set the G54...to G59 fixture offsets and the travel limits ...

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