Gentlemen, I am a happy camper. Jeremy came in my office with a quiet voice to give me a report on how the Cinci cut the big plate with all the holes with a +-.002 location tolerance. I thought OH NO we have problems. He then smiled and said it nailed all the holes. There was one dimension out of tolerance. A hole to hole location of +-.001 on a distance of between 25 and 26 inches. It was -.0015 or .0005 out of tolerance. This is in the realm of temperature causing the tolerance fluctuation. I think maybe the design is a little tight toleranced as quite a number of the holes are bolt holes. Bolt holes with a +-.002 location tolerance are a little overdone. Jeremy said he thought this is the only machine in the shop that could do these parts. What an endorsement of EMC2. I heard someone say you cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear but I am not so sure anymore. The Enshu is basically done. It is ready to make parts. This afternoon I was looking at how to get an encoder on the spindle. After removing the spindle cover and finding it would be a major undertaking to mount and connect an encoder we started looking at the spindle drive. The spindle drive is a full servo with feedback from the spindle motor. Instead of encoder feedback it has resolver feedback. This feeds directly into the spindle drive. Reading the manual lead us to check a few pins with a scope. We found encoder A and B pulses on two pins and an index pulse on another pin. This will allow feedback into EMC and give me control of the spindle as an axis. I will be able to drive the spindle as an axis with the MPG. I am not sure exactly how I want to control this. I will be able to read the index pulse after every gear change to orient the encoder to the spindle. Do I want to have a linear scale or a rotary scale? This has 4000 rpm and I am not sure how many pulses/rev this will have. Ideas, comments welcome. I have the video camera ready to record some motion/cutting and tool changes.
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