Re: Stops in the motor record

[mooney@aps.anl.gov (Tim Mooney)]

Hubert, re...

> -- On Mar 27, 1998, mooney@aps.anl.gov (Tim Mooney) wrote
> > I should mention that glitches on the limit-switch lines can produce
> > very similar behavior, and are by **far** the more common cause of it.
> > So don't everybody with an intermittently jerky motor immediately assume
> > their hardware is flakey.  You might just need some decoupling capacitors.
> 
> I'm not sure that this is true.  I've seen this behavior very regularly
> (with the .27 release of the motor record, VME8-8 board).  I don't have
> any limit switches in my system and limit-switch support has not been
> enabled.

Wait a minute.  You can't enable or disable limit switch support, and the
hardware doesn't care whether or not you actually have switches.

Tim