Greetings all; Hooking up the encoder so I could use it to calibrate speeds obtained, I am puzzled as can be. But let me put that pix up on my web page first. Got it, could be sharper but will do.
Append "/lathe-stf/Encoder-installed.JPG" to the link in the sig. The curved alu piece as you can see has 3 trenches carved across the inside face, on a curve radius that matches the bull gear. And as you can see, looking at the top 2, one is dead centered over a tooth, and the next one ccw from the top, is dead centered over a valley between the teeth. The index I had to fool with as it was seeing not only its special "tooth" but all the other teeth too, so I had to break its glue, slide it to the left a couple mm's at which point it quit seeing anything but my screwdriver going by. Had to make a new special tooth, bigger & set a little proud of the bull gear teeth. Getting all that fixed, I put a hal meter on the velocity pin and got pure noise turning the chuck with a crescent wrench on a jaw. Hooked up the halscope, finding the a/b outputs are almost perfectly complementing each other. No quadrature at all. Those are ATS-667's you can see, body end in the top two slots, lead end as the index one is reversed in the mount, and sitting about 3/8" out into the other block of alu holding up the pcb so I can attach the cable to it. Given the mechanical quadrature spacing you can see, what the heck is going on? I am thinking maybe I need to remake the alu holder out of iron/steel to make the iron in the mount shield them from each other better? What can the rest of you see that I did wrong? Thanks everybody. 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
