On 27 July 2013 00:54, John Kasunich <jmkasun...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Can your spindle drive orient the spindle? Probably required if the > spindle taper is one of those with driving keys, otherwise not needed.
Not yet, but as it is on a Resolver I have 16 bits of precision (and 24 bits of resolution) of spindle angle, and a flux-vector drive, so it ought to be trivial. > Or a shaft near the tool change location, connected to the carousel > with a chain or toothed belt. Choose the sprockets/pulleys such that > one turn of the shaft advances the carousel by one tool slot. I like your thinking. :-) -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users