Frank Tkalcevic wrote:
>>> Is index homing working in the 5i20 hm2 drive, in particular the 
>>> SVST8_4.BIT file?
>> HM2 encoder index homing works (to the best of my knowledge), 
>> though I dont think the hm2-servo config supports homing.
>>
>> For proper home-on-index you probably want to use the 
>> 5i20/SVST8_4IM2.BIT firmware, since it supports index 
>> masking.  You'd normally use the limit/home switch as the index mask.
> 
> What difference does the index mask make?  I'm using index homing at the
> moment with SVST8_4.BIT without the index mask.

Wow, cool!  Is it working well for you?

Are you connecting the home switch in HAL to the index-enable pin on the 
encoder?  If so you're essentially doing index masking in software, and 
that should work just fine.  It just seems a bit cleaner to me to do it 
in firmware.

But, any way that works is a pretty good way.  Thanks for the 
success-report.  :-)


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