On 03/01/2017 12:44 PM, Ken Strauss wrote: > I recently got a Renishaw MP7 IR probe from eBay. Has there been any further > success with reverse engineering the interface? According to the manual that > came with my probe it is turned on/off by briefly spinning it at 500 rpm to > actuate an internal centrifugal switch. It uses a standard 9v battery. The > recommended interface box is an MI7 + OMM. There are reasonably priced MI7 > on eBay but the OMM listing are about $1000! > > My Blum probe is toggled on/off by a burst of IR pulses, and then sends essentially an 8-bit async character with the state bits. So, pretty different, it seems. Blum offered no info on how it all works, so I had to reverse engineer it all. It really wasn't all that hard to do, once I zapped it with some IR and got it to turn on.
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