On 24 November 2016 at 08:58, Bernt Hustad Hembre <[email protected]> wrote: > As a intermediate solution I'd like to do as you suggest. Put some > switches on the gear levers, and give an alarm/warning/change gear message > if the requested speed is impossible with the current gear position. (in > your case gear and belt position)
It is possible for LinuxCNC to detect which gear is engaged (if you have a spindle encoder) by comparing the motor speed to the spindle speed. https://forum.linuxcnc.org/forum/47-hal-examples/27071-automatic-spindle-gear-detection -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
