With the “Easy Stop” feature enabled, why does my control program not stop executing when I hit a key on the keyboard?
A1: In order for the “Easy Stop” feature to work properly, the QMotor main window must have the focus of Photon (i.e., the QMotor Main Window must be the active window). If the QMotor Main Window does not have the focus, then QMotor does not recognize any key strokes made by the user; hence, QMotor will not stop executing the control program. Q2: A popup message window displays the following, “Error Starting Control Program ….: Can’t create timer client (Server qrts/ts0, Frequency 1050 Hz). Timer Server ‘qrts/ts0’ does not support frequency 1050”? A2: The control frequency has to be an integer divisor of the frequency of which the timer server was started. QMotor does not provide automatic configuration of the base frequency of timer servers. In the above example, the timer server was configured to run at a speed of 3000 Hz. In the main window of the QMotor GUI, the user tried to execute at control frequency of 1050 Hz (note: this is not an integer division of 3000 Hz). The control p
