Common on older large CNC lathes is a timing belt pulley that has a bore sufficient to slide over the hollow spindle.. then a 1:1 ratio to another large pulley that is mounted to an encoder.
Dave On 7/15/2014 9:44 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > On 2014-07-15 14:00, andy pugh wrote: >> On 15 July 2014 10:44, Marius Liebenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >>> What would the highest safe RPM be for a 2048 quadrature spindle encoder >>> on the 7i76. >>> I have to use some pulleys to mount the encoder on my spindle and I >>> would like to use what I have on the shelf if possible. >> 1:1 is the right ratio, if you want to use the index from the encoder. >> The encoder on the 7i76 can do 10Mhz according to the manual, so that >> should be OK to 292,000 rpm. > OK so speed is not the problem. I will have to concoct another method to > mount the encoder if it is better to have it 1:1 > How do others do that on a lathe seeing that you cannot mount the > encoder on the back of the shaft. The shaft is hollow for material to > pass through. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
