How can I override the final homing approach velocity?

[spcmicro]

We have a motor that's geared down by a 260 to 1 ratio. Needless to say, the 1/4 RPS final homing speed is deadly slow. We have to be able to override this somehow. Does anyone know any way to get the homing speed to be faster? I guess the last resort would be to write a custom homing routine, but I'm hoping that there's an easier way...

[Brent_R]

Try setting the encoder counts per revolution to an artificially high value (maybe 10x) using the Load Counts per Revolution function just before the Find Home routine. Set your acceleration and velocity values for homing based on this new count value. The higher encoder counts per revolution should fool the card into producing a higher actual final homing velocity. Once you have found the home switch, set all of these values back to the desired values for your program. Please note, you will need to have the counts per revolution set correctly to use the Find Index function.

Regards,

Brent Runnels
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[spcmicro]

Brent, you the man!

This solved the problem and works great.

Thanks for your help...