TROUBLE POSITIONING A POLL ON A WEBPAGE

I have created a poll with a MySql flash survey/poll script. How can I control where I position this script on my webpage? Do I need to place it within a table? I tried doing that, but had some weird results. So far, I can only place the poll on the upper left or right hand corners of the page, but would like to place it in the lower right hand section of the page or some other place on the page for that matter. Any help is greatly appreciated. I have been trying to look for advice online about positioning poll code, but have not found any advice on this. Thanks!

Can you provide a link to the page? It is hard to help you without seeing what you are dealing with!
J

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Trouble positioning a stepper motor accurately

I'm using a PXI - 7344 with an MID7064 motor driver for XYMR Microscope Stage(Danaher Motion) which has encoder of resolution 2000 (counts/rev).
The motor is in 200 steps/rev configuration and microstepping by 10 (closed loop).
So the motor and encoder are effectively in same resolution. So i expect it to be accurate to +/- 1 step(with three pull in moves ) because the motor and the encoder may not be in phase.
But i get accuracy of +/- 3-4 steps. I didn't have this problem previously (till a week ago), I had accuracy of +/- 1 step.
Any ideas on what could be wrong?
Thank you
Prathyush

Hy Prathyush,
Here is another thing to consider. You may be trying to stop the move in between physical poles on the stepper motor. Since the motor has 200 steps per revolution, that means that there are 200 physical poles on the motor to step with. You are microstepping at 10 microsteps/step. So, if you try to stop a move after a number of steps that is not divisible by 10, then you are essentially trying to hold the rotor between two poles which are competing to magnetically attract it. Essentially, the rotor is in an unstable "tug-of-war" so to speak. Now your encoder has a resolution of 2000 counts/rev, each count being evenly spaced out. If the motor is being held between two poles, there might be slight vibrations which cause the encoder feedback to vary slightly, thus giving you a 3-4 count error. If you set up your moves where you never land in between poles, I expect you should have better accuracy.
Wes P
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
Wes P
Certified LabVIEW Developer

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