On 04/01/2014 08:01 AM, John Kasunich wrote: > > 127 is an odd encoder count, but I understand why: > 0.000393" is 0.01mm. > > I wonder if this mill was used to make metric parts > and they wanted the control and readout to use > metric units natively? > Yup, any time I see encoders with 127 or 2540 or similar counts, I immediately think they had metric/imperial conversion in mind.
On lathes, they even put 127 tooth gears in the train to make metric threading work. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
