On Friday 20 March 2020 00:24:07 John Dammeyer wrote:

> > > But it's here where I become a bit confused.  A 60 tooth gear at
> > > 1200 RPM produces 7200 edges per second or 1 about every 139
> > > microseconds. Say we're rigid tapping 8 threads which means a
> > > total of 57600 pulses.  If the hardware counter is 16 bit signed
> > > that's larger than the 32767 before the counter rolls over.  If
> > > it's a 32 bit counter it's not an issue.
> >
> > I doubt if that would be a problem at 1200 because it would
> > following error out from Z not being able to move that fast.
> > Probably before the tap ever touched metal going in. Another problem
> > would also rear its ugly heard is that the overshoot at the bottom
> > of the hole would likely exceed the length of the tap at 1200. I got
> > concerned about blind holes, and despite the belts yelping like
> > michelin tires on hot blacktop, the overshoot at the bottom of the
> > hole was over 3 turns at 300 rpms when swinging an 8" 40 lb chuck
> > with a workpiece in it. Trade my 1hp motor for a 10 and a bigger vfd
> > might speed up the turnaround but my place isn't wired for that kind
> > of power.
> >
> > So I have modified most of my rigid tap routines to tell me how many
> > turns and how far the overshoot is at that taps pitch and show me in
> > the gui. So I can cut clear to the bottom of the blind hole w/o
> > breaking the tap.
>
> Hi Gene
> I can understand that one has to factor accel and decel into the
> picture.  The spindle won't stop suddenly and won't start instantly
> either.  So the Z axis tracks the decelerating spindle and that needs
> to be factored into the depth of the hole of course.
>
> The same is true for threading up to a shoulder.
>
> I have a spring loaded tap holder so even if there's a little bit of
> error my system will ultimately not break the tap.  Plus in the near
> future my spindle will be step/dir run with an AC servo so
> theoretically the tracking of Z verses rotation will be as good as the
> system can provide.
>
> But it doesn't answer my question on how it works with a spindle using
> 0-10V plus DIR for the spindle while using STEP/DIR for the Z axis. 
> How is the Z coupled to the spindle when the control over
> deceleration, as you explained about yours, is somewhat loose.
>
> John
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