On Wednesday 02 September 2015 04:54:13 andy pugh wrote: > On 2 September 2015 at 02:25, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > > You could always change the encoders, if it came to that. > > Indeed, I might even swap them for resolvers, as I have quite a few > resolvers for things like the spindle and the candidate motor for the > X axis has a broken encoder and a resolver which can be fitted. > > However, if I could figure out a way to read the serial data stream, > possibly into a UART or BSPI component then that would be nice as it > would make commutation easy and mean there was no need to home. > Homing can sometimes be a nuisance on a lathe if you stopped mid-job > with steadies etc set up.
I have my homing setup on the lathe so that removing the tool from the QC post gives me room to home even with a 2" OD workpiece in the chuck. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
