Tutorial SMC3 Arduino 3DOF Motor Driver and Windows Utilities

Hi, can I use 2 of the DQ860MA Drivers instead of your "Monster Motor Board"? I have two Nema42 that I am going to use.

Hello everyone

I am building a 3 dof using mode2.

I am using 3 IBT2 and 3 worm gears by PgSaw. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/GEAR-MOTOR...LL-FEED-150-160-rpm-25-1-ratio-/351066992384? hash = item51bd392f00)

In the initial tests everything is working normally. Today when I complete the construction, one of my engines (board 2) began to turn only to one side.



Turning right and left, it switches between slow and fast, but to the same side. With the other two engines I do not have this problem.

I changed the order of the motors, and always what is on board 2 has this problem of turning only to one side. That is, the problem is not in the motor, but in the board.

I've checked the wiring, but it's all correct.

I tried to redo the settings in SMC3Utils but it remains the same.

Is it possible that the board has been damaged?

Any solution.

Complementing.
I unplugged all the wires and tested this board with the 3 motors and the problem persisted.
Is there any way to reset the ibt memory?

Job well done and nicely elaborated @RufusDufus, will you please tell if simtools and smc3 can be used on a single pc without intermediate pc(to control sim motion via arduino), if yes then min requirements of the system to run game,simtools and smc3 utility software??
Regards

Depending on specs one PC should work. Which game and what are the specs of your PC?

Thanks @bruce stephen for response, Dirt 4, RYZEN 5 1600, RX 580 8Gb, DDR4 16Gb 2400mhz

This pc should run everything without issue.

Gracias

Thanks for the great software and firmware, with it I managed to move my big 80A 12v gearmotors, opel corsa b. everything worked right away even with xsim. here is the video of the first movement on the bench full of disorder

Grazie per il grande software e firmware, con esso sono riuscito a gestire i miei motori da 80A 12v, elettrosterzi opel corsa b. ha funzionanto tutto subito anche con xsim. ecco il video del primo movimento sul banco pieno di disordine

https://www.xsimulator.net/community/threads/my-wheel-plus-2dof-project.11796/#post-155393

Here is another Motor driver I have used. It's well made and it works well with SMC3 Mode 2 to control 2 wiper motors. 2x25amp driver
http://www.elechouse.com/elechouse/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2179

Another day another problem Everything was fine with my seat and SMC gr8 software, but today... when I was turning it on seat center is broken. My chair is strong on the left side in the default position ;/ (I'm on v. 2.2.5). When I'm testing with SMC3 software everything is OK, but after Simtools is on everything is broke. My system is Win 10 ENG (with polish language installed). Nothing was changed on my system. I've heard that some win10 update was coming. Is it possible it is his fault? Could you help me wit this problem please?

Thank You @noorbeast ! As always You are the best with your advice That was it. Changed the region settings and everything is ok. Why Simtools is so vulnerable with this settings...

using two arduinos how does the pot used to vary the scale work? Do you have to put two pot?

Hi, i have one problem with smc3 and MM: everything is working fine with simtools (demo), output test and the smc3 setup utility. Motor is moving in right direction.
But: whenever the hallsensor is going below a specific value (i guess it is 255) the motor stops, even if there is no limit or clipping set (currently no rod mounted to motor). in the opposite direction everything is fine, goes up to 1000 (as set in code) but not in the down direction. and whenever it stops, i have to loosen the hallsensor, turn it above 255, tighten it, set motor to „on“ in the smc3 tool, and give it another try......

any idea, what could be the problem ?

cheers, Arazok

ok, problem solved.
There were old limits set inside the eeprom, which I haven‘t seen.
Forgot to press „save image“ inside the smc3 tool when adapting the values.

@RufusDufus
Awesome work!

I'm starting my mini 6DOF prototype using your SMC3 software, but I'm changing some important things:

1 - I'm using rotary encoder based on interrupts instead of pots (https://github.com/Billwilliams1952/KY-040-Encoder-Library---Arduino)
2 - I'm using freeRTOS for Arduino, so I'm creating parallel tasks (https://github.com/feilipu/Arduino_FreeRTOS_Library), the minimum tick time is about 15ms, so I'll check the results using tasks
3 - I removed everything related to motor 3, so the software will handle just 2 motors per Arduino. (SMC2)
4 - Can you please provide the SMC3 Util source code? (I want to update the protocol and remove the motor 3 settings)

As soon I have some result I post here, I'll also create a GitHub for the SMC2 project using freeRTOS.

Thank you!

After windows update my arduino board have changed com ports had to set them again in simtools using 3 4 and 5 instead of 7