RIOS configuration dialog

Lynxmotion Electronics & Software
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Hi again!

Is the relationship between the RIOS configuration dialog’s vertical sliders ‘position’ and the actual command sent to the SSC-32 described anywhere?

The SSC-32 documentation states that the range for positions are 500-2500mS, but how does this relate to the positions described for the shoulder, etc?

Thanks again,

Nick

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RIOS uses angles to store position. The SSC-32 accepts absolute positions for it’s positioning system. The config page is where the angle to pulse relationship is defined.

3

Thanks for the speedy reply Jim, although I’m still a little confused.

Whereabouts on the configuration dialog? Looking at RIOS v1.05 user manual, section 1, figure 7, and I can only see a field, “Step Deg”. But this relates angles to position, but not into the absolute positions that the SSC-32 uses.

Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Nick

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Step Deg is a value for display, not something you set to a certain value. The Min and Max are defined by moving the axis to the position it can reach, and defining that limits angle. Then viola it’s configured.

5

OK, so in the screenshot in the user manual, it has for the base at a maximum position of 900 and a minimum of 110. How does these figures relate to the command that you might send to the SSC-32 over a serial connection?

The scales on those bars seem to be 1000 - does this mean that for every integer position, the value that should be sent to the SSC-32 is:

#0 P<500+2*pos>

Thus making the min and the max positions for the base equivalent to sending the following commands:

#0 P720
#0 P2300

Again, thanks for the reply. And apologises for asking so many questions!

6

It looks like he has scaled the SSC-32’s range of 500 to 2500 to a simple range of 1 to 1000.

7

Awesome! Thank you very much!