Tutorial SMC3 Arduino 3DOF Motor Driver and Windows Utilities

No Windows 7 enterprise edition NL (Dutch).
I'll try the Jymä tip and change the language to English (i'll get back on that)

Your Good!!! i'ts working now!!!
Movement of the motors is smooth, great job Jymä. Changing my time format from Dutch (nederlands) to English(US) made it work.

@Jymä, @dedas, @Thread, and others with jerky motion...

Thanks to Jymä we have done some investigation and confirmed the root cause of the windows Date/Time/Language setting issue to the motion smoothness.

In short any windows language localisations that display numbers using a comma as the decimal place will have an issue.

The short term fix is to use Jymä's fix to change the windows Date/Time format to English (refer posts above) in control panel.

Thanks, in XP it is still buggy, is there a chance to have him look at it?

Are you using XP on one computer for Simtools game engine and running the game on another computer?

If so I would very much expect that both computers need to be set to English date/time and Simtools restarted on both after the change. Can you confirm if that works?

Thanks for the continous support, it is a pro program.
At the moment i am building my mechanics, and testing electronics,
game engine works fine on win8, and buggy on XP. [the slider movement is rightaway buggy, so the game would be]
At the moment have not even downloaded the AC plugin. [and yes, planning to use both machines, because of the CPU bottleneck]
By the way, AC has released a RC1.0.3 version, do the AC plugin work with that?

OOps i forgot to mention that the slider even looks different, in XP it is slimmer than in win8, [same program, simtools]

Question
Do you need Firmware To upload the Arduino board
Or just download the file (SMC3.ino v0.63) to Arduino
and The opening program ( SMC3Utils v0.63 ) and tests and test the motor

Another question
To connect the wire there is 1 pin for pwm and 1 pin for direction of h-Bridge

Is this true form of linking ?


just Only CODE MODE1
Do you need any Other modification ?
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the SMC3 Utils Is It similar AMC1.5 and xSimCTRL
Is if used SMC3 I do not need a program xSimCTRL ؟


Forgive me On stretching

No firmware needed, only the ino file has to be uploaded via the Arduino software. SMC3 utility is needed to set the parameters individually and test the motors. The proceeder is described at the beginning of this thread.

The wiring is very well described and very easy to do. Only follow the pictures.

No, the rest has to be done within the SMC3 utility.

Please READ the complete todo at the beginning of this thread, there is all described and easy to understand. If there are any issues you will run into while configuring the set we are here to help you But first read please

I worked all the steps
Everything
the program is Very Very cool
I worked for the test Pots And move the blue line

There is another question
When the testing process are linking the Pots with the motor as the picture



In order to get the desired result
Or leave Pots Also in the picture


and work test

Hello Rufus,
Are you sure that in MODE2, there is reverse braking?
With square wave, there is absolutely no difference in the overshoot and the reaction, whether the PWMreverse is set to 0 or set to 255.

The PWMrev is not used for normal operation... this is only used when the motors pass the limit lines and is used as an aggressive braking to help stop the sim getting damaged but running past max travel.

The PID parameters are used to control overshoot. Try increasing the Kd parameter just a little.

I see, thank you for the program by the way
I thought reverse braking was the normal operation to make it quicker, but it may be too agressive indeed.

Yes, I know of the several parameters, but just wanted to try PWMreverse, not knowing it is only last resort.

I set a clip input value, because at the limits it becomes jumpy because of the pots ends are coated with conductive glue.
But it seems that for the manual test mode, the set clip input is not always active, but i am not sure.

Where does the ard write the parameters values?
Reprogramming did not erase them.
How can you erase them? [not that i wanted to do so]

Hi everyone, How do I modify the code to MODE2 what to delete or add? Because I can not do it. Thank you for your response.

simply write MODE2 instead of MODE1 at the beginning of the code SMC3 v0.63
hope it help
regards
Hooshang

So that only this just overwrite the MODE2. Nothing more?

Nothing more. Uploading and done.

Hi Rufus!
Please advise, i am making progress, testing the rig, with an empty seat for now.
In SMCutils, i use square wave, and when the seat moves down, generates voltage, some 16Volts on a 4Amps supply.
On an ATX power supply, the effect is that the voltage drops to zero [i can also hear the fan stops in the power supply], and the square wave's bottom half is severily overshot. for half a second the green line drops unstoppable without power voltage.
Does that mean that [in MODE2] there is no brake? Or just the H bridge can not brake without the motor voltage?
If i will sit in the seat, there will be more trouble.
I will try another kind of power supply, but if remains, the only solution would be a battery?