Stepper speed control (continuous rotation)

[fma]

Hi!

Is it possible to control a stepper in speed mode, to have a continuous rotation?

If not, is it something which could be implemented?

Thanks,

[dc42]

That's not currently supported. However, RRF3 already has two movement queues that run asynchronously with respect to each other. One is used for regular G0/G1/G2/G3 moves, the other is available for other functions such as the one you describe.

[A Former User]

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[fma]

@dc42 said in Stepper speed control (continuous rotation):

That's not currently supported. However, RRF3 already has two movement queues that run asynchronously with respect to each other. One is used for regular G0/G1/G2/G3 moves, the other is available for other functions such as the one you describe.

Good. Is it something you could implement, in a future release?

[droftarts]

@fma @dc42 could you use the conditional Gcode to run a movement that starts and stops with an input/button press?

Ian

[dc42]

@droftarts said in Stepper speed control (continuous rotation):

@fma @dc42 could you use the conditional Gcode to run a movement that starts and stops with an input/button press?

Ian

To do that, we would need several more things:

• A method of specifying that an axis created using M584 is a continuous rotation axis (continuous rotation axes are already supported internally);
• A way of creating a daemon GCode task that executes a loop continuously;
• A way of specifying that specific motion commands (or motion commands for a particular axis) should go into the second movement queue;