Re: [micro-manager-general] DA XY stage positions range

[Miroslaw M. <Mir...@st...>]

Quoting Mark Tsuchida <mar...@gm...>:

> Hi Ed and Mirosław,
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 07:59:57PM +0100, Ed Simmons wrote:
>> On 15/07/2014 18:46, Mirosław Marszałek wrote:
>> > I'm planning to use the DA XY stage device adapter to control a piezo
>> > stage via NI USB DAQ analog outputs. So far everything works great, but
>> > I can't see anywhere an option to set stage limits in um. It seems to be
>> > fixed to values from 0 to ~4000 um and my stage has a range of only 100
>> > um. In principle one could refer directly to NI device's output but I
>> > would rather stay away from workarounds when not necessary. What is the
>> > proper way to do that?
>> >
>> You should be able to edit the settings of the DA XY stage when adding
>> it to your configuration - the voltage range and the travel of the stage
>> axes should be parameters you can enter at the time you add the DA XY
>> stage in the hardware config wizard.
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:11:28AM +0200, Mirosław Marszałek wrote:
>> I can't see anywhere an option to set DA XY stage travel range, neither
>> when adding the stage (only low and high voltages, no low and high
>> positions), nor in the Device/Property Browser. Moreover, calling
>> mmc.getDevicePropertyNames in Beanshell on the stage does not output any
>> property which could be related to this. The travel range seems to be
>> fixed to 200 um for both axes.
>
> It looks like the code for this has been commented out ever since  
> the DAXYStage
> was added (DeviceAdapters/Utilities/Utilities.cpp:1747-1759, added in r8209,
> Nov 2011).
>
> Ed, is it possible that some mismatch crept in between our  
> repository and your
> original version?
>
> Best,
> Mark
>
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> Mark Tsuchida
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Dear Mark and Ed,

the issue is still present in the newest release (1.14.8 from July 31,  
2014). Is there a chance to have it fixed in the next one?

Bests,
Miroslaw