> > No Index??? Seems like it would be handy.
It appears to have an index slot in the glass plate , but not enough wires 🤔🤔🤔 OTOH, for XYZ, not a hard and > fast requirement as long as the home switches are good. I have 5 of those inductive pickups we were talking about a few months back, I think Greg or Chris brought them to our attention , so we will find out. But you'll need > it on the spindle. In fact, the index is the only thing that must be > tied to the spindle if you ever want to do rigid tapping. > I'm gonna put one of thousands cui encoders on it, I left this renco on > the ametek as I'm just plain lazy and figured with the home switches it > wasn't absolutely essential to have index. > Also without this new motor in hand I have no idea how it is equipped , hopefully it already has a nice encoder on it 😁😁😁 > > The rest of the encoder (a/b signals) can be on the motor, and you can > calibrate the scale for the spindle with some hal stuff you can comment > back out of the hal file once the scale has been determined. Thats how I > did mine anyway. Works a treat. > I'm sure I will have questions for this. > > > Finally, something that didn't fight me tooth and nail. > > > Now I have to put an encoder on the z motor and wait for brown to drop > > this 6hp spindle motor off and see what I need for that, I have 2 > > drives coming for that and a bid on a power supply for the drives so > > life is well at this time. > > Sounds good. How much weight do have to man handle on the Z? > This motor ships at 50 lbs it's a knee mill , however it only has freedom of movement along the x axis , I hope to turn this later with a harmonic drive > > > Ttyl take care fellas > > We try. I've got the tap hat g-code working well, but ran out of M6 grub > screws, so I just ordered another 100 M6's and 100 M8's for the biggest > taps, which should run me out of brass before I run out of taps to > mount. So sometime after the screws get here, I should order another 6 > feet of 7/8" brass rod. And a decent set of letter drills, these are > only slightly better than cold butter. Even running each one thru one of > the original drill doctors isn't enough to drill clean in one pass. In > brass. > > Good to hear you're making progress as well. > -- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
