Need Help!- MACH 3 PC test screen shots.

[diyengineer]

Here are screen shots of:

25Khz
35Khz
45Khz
60Khz
65Khz
75Khz
100Khz

I plan on using a smooth stepper will this system be fast enough?
1.6ghz single core atom, windows xp sp3, 2 gigs of ram.


I'm guessing the smooth stepper as way faster then 100Khz so it may need way more power.

I have nothing to compare these screen shots to so i dont know where i stand.

Anyone running a smooth stepper? help?

This computer is a ITX platform. Very small.

If its to slow i dont want to risk it and will run a micro atx intel dual core 2.5ghz.

[diyengineer]

Here is a quick test @ 100Khz on a old gateway 1.8Ghz single core pentium 4.

I checked my other computers and none of them have a parallel port.

So the machine will have to get ran from either this one or the newer Atom.
(unless a expansion card works)

According to super pi (a program that calculates the number pi 3.14..)

I can run the 1 million test in 1 minute 45 seconds. The Atom will do it in 1 minute 30 seconds. So technically the smaller atom is faster by a hair.

My modeling computer for solidworks has a liquid cooled quad xeon @ 4Ghz and runs the 1 million test in 10 seconds flat thanks to 4 cores and each core has hyper threading so it sees 8 cores

Anyways.. any input would be appreciated! I want to be able to take advantage of the full bandwith of the smooth stepper.

[diyengineer]

Using C32 (cnc4pc) breakout board==>Smooth stepper.

3 Viper 100 drivers connected to large keling servos with 1000 count us digital E6 differential encoders.

Another question how fast in Khz is the actual smooth stepper compared to the parralel port? If the PP port can do 100Khz, what can the smooth stepper do?

[ger21]

You don't need to check the drivertest, because with the Smoothstepper, you don't install the Mach3 driver. You can use any old computer with a Smoothstepper, because the SS is doing all the work.

SmoothStepper can do 4Mhz, I think. About 40 times faster than 100Khz.

[diyengineer]

GER21 to the rescue! Very nice! I will go ahead and mount the computer inside the cabinet then. Hopefully the Atom should have enough horsepower.