Realtime PWM mode added.

[BobL]

One more piece of data, ( because threads such as this exist for years and many tend to read them for info..)

The following photo shows the Pokeys57 revision 2 changed the PWM location on the TestIO connector. As indicated by the arrow..

Art

Art;  Just received my opto board, using rev 2 Pokey CNC57 board, their info shows original layout without any change to the pwm pin 7 on test I/O connector in their pdf? Do I use pin 7 (default) from the Test IO connector, or you think pin 14 like you mentioned is the way to go for laser power control?

Cheers
Bob

[ArtF]

Bob

I believe the software is defaulted to the Pin14, but the script can easily be changed to use any of the 4 PWM channels comming
out..
Art

[BobL]

Art;

Had to make a few changes with my setup to fit,so first of all will be using the pendent plug of the Pokey57CNC ver 1.2, so I'm using pin 11 of that plug, registered to pin 21 of the pokey. This will be my PWM pin to control my laser power. Had issues loading first of all the libraries, even with a new install or by deleting previous versions of Gearotic, it did not want to load, and I do agree with Maynard now that this problem only appears to be present when I use Win XP or Vista, if I use Win 8 or 10, appears to work just fine?  I compared both of my profiles generated in Auggie, one from my Win XP and the other from my Win10, I do see a bunch of stuff missing in the file generated by Win XP version.  Anyhow just about to adapt the Win10 profile version to my WinXP shortly, I'll let you know how that goes.

Cheers
Bob

[DanL]

Bob that's what I ended up doing The 57cnc manual has the 1.2 pinout

[BobL]

Thanks Dan.. Art and I are working on it as we speak.. Hopefully we'll see some results soon. Thanks for your input..

Cheers
Bob

[BobL]

Hi;

This is what we come up with.

  For all XP users, next release of Gearotic should have a fix in it, however for now if your library doesn't appear to work in XP like mine did, simply copy and add the following code to your profile and restart Auggie.
To elaborate, inside your Gearotic Motion folder, you'll find a folder called "Profile", inside that folder you'll find your configured Auggie system profile, simply edit it (*.profile) with notepad and add the following code to it and save it. Restart Auggie and it should work. What you'll see is the green indicator to indicate active, make sure all the ones shown in picture are active in order for it to work properly.

[ScriptTypes]
Scripts=1
GCode=1
IO=1
System=1
Laser=0
Rasters=0
Peripherals=0
trurtu=1
Graphics=0
Wizards=0
NewType=0
Initialized=1


[ScriptLibs]
GCodeFunctions=0
Rasters=1
SpiralLib=0
Spiral=0
spiral2=0
MathFunctions=0
ArtsLib=0
spiral6=0
ArtLib=1
Art=1
TestLib=1
MotionIO=1
SystemCallBacks=1
FreeAxis=1
Polar=1
SystemKernal=1
Spirals_lib=1
Spirals=1
LCD=1
GCodeLib=1
IOIO=1
MyGlobals=1
Long_Lat=1
Dates=1
SpiroGraphs=1
AxisConfigs=1
LaserControls=1
SpindleLib-Frequency=0
SpindleLib-Laser=1
SpindleLib-RelayOnly=0
IO=1
Laser=1
System=1
GCode=1
SystemTest=0
test=0
trurtu=0
trurtuwqer=0
Clock=1
Patterns=1
ArtsLaser=1
ElecFreqCalc=0
DialogExample=1
Tutorials=1
ArtTest=0
Initialized=1




Anyhow hope this helps anyone using XP and stuck in the loop I was, and thanks to Art for his dedication to finding a solution.

Cheers
Bob

[BobL]

Here's a picture of the Lib when it works fine...

Cheers
Bob