Tiddy CNC.

[EddyCurrent]

Nah it's too hit n miss and you never know if you've done it fast enough, software is 100%. Also you can set the amp's for the motors exactly.

Every time I use the 'switch 4 method' I can hear the stepper motor 'singing' while it goes through the routine.

I think if you click Write to Ram you get COM error but write to EEprom you don't.?

I always get a pop up message telling me to do a 'Read' before I can do a 'Write'

[JAZZCNC]

Every time I use the 'switch 4 method' I can hear the stepper motor 'singing' while it goes through the routine.

Yes maybe does energise stepper but doesn't mean it's tuned correctly and still it doesn't set the Amps. Software is much better and takes any doubt away.
Also with a little tweaking you can get motors running much smoother than the autotune does.

I always get a pop up message telling me to do a 'Read' before I can do a 'Write'

Well yes suppose that makes sense really because you would want to read the drive for it's current settings before changing them.
It's been a few weeks since I've used Protune as I've been using EM806 drives lately which have supaceeded the AM882 and the software is differant so can't remember if my Protune does this or not.

[firetrappe]

Eddy, I've been playing with Protune on my XP machine today. I kept getting the error that you show. After a bit of research it turns out that it is due to the file stored in RAM on the drive being generated in a different language (probably from a Chinese machine).

If you go to Control Panel - Regional and Language Options then click the Languages tab and tick 'Install files for East Asian Languages', once it is applied you won't get the error message anymore.

Si.

[EddyCurrent]

Eddy, I've been playing with Protune on my XP machine today. I kept getting the error that you show. After a bit of research it turns out that it is due to the file stored in RAM on the drive being generated in a different language (probably from a Chinese machine).

If you go to Control Panel - Regional and Language Options then click the Languages tab and tick 'Install files for East Asian Languages', once it is applied you won't get the error message anymore.

Si.

Si, that's an excellent find I can't wait to try it !

[TonyD]

Thanks Lee for moving these threads under the build log.