I have one of those. I bought it for a similar price a few years back. I did look into making an inductive pickup for it but never got very far as I also picked up a Renishaw LP2 probe at about the same time. I made a QC30 holder for the LP2 with an infra red emitter that fires up the hollow spindle on my BP Series 1 CNC (the tools are held by the flange rather than using a drawbar). A simple receiver on the top of the spindle completes the setup. The transmitter has a 1/2AA sized lithium battery that lasts about a year.
Hopefully in the next couple of months I'll be getting a Hurco Hawk which doesn't have a hollow spindle so I may look into using the MP3 probe instead. Les On 10/04/2013 15:00, andy pugh wrote: > On 10 April 2013 14:42, Kent A. Reed <kentallanr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 4/10/2013 8:56 AM, andy pugh wrote: >>> I have bought a Renishaw touch-probe. >> I infer you bought only the probe and not the "receiver". > The consensus on IRC was that "bought" might be a misnomer, and > "stole" was closer. > http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Renshaw-Mp3-Probe-/271177751112 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
