On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 14:48 -0700, John Harris wrote: > All, > Be cautious about fitting magnetic encoders to the back of NEMA34 or > larger step motors. The magnetic field in the area where the encoder is to > be installed is strong enough to screw up the encoder readings. > > The effect shows up as noise on the position reading. > > John (The hard way)
I was thinking of using them for feed and spindle overrides. I don't need a lot of resolution and the low wire count to hook them up is attractive. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
