On Wednesday 13 March 2019 20:28:43 andy pugh wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 23:45, Gene Heskett
wrote:
> > > When I have considered doing it I have thought in terms of a
> > > semi-circular track and an opto-sensor. (so it never takes more
> > > than 180 degrees to home)
> >
> > In other
On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 23:45, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > When I have considered doing it I have thought in terms of a
> > semi-circular track and an opto-sensor. (so it never takes more than
> > 180 degrees to home)
>
> In other words, a grey scale with enough opto's it knows where it is w/o
>
I'm just finishing up a rotary built with a 750w servo and Spinea TS 200
and I plan to run a trunion style setup, so when that is level wrt to the
Y axis, that's "home" imo.
I've be pondering this a bit as well. I'm thinking a Fadal style homing
system might be best (I have no real fadal
On Wednesday 13 March 2019 18:55:15 andy pugh wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 22:29, Gene Heskett
wrote:
> > Since I've never put a home switch on a rotary,
>
> Neither have I. It isn't often necessary. If I had something without
> rotational symmetry I would probably use a spirit level on the
On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 22:29, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Since I've never put a home switch on a rotary,
Neither have I. It isn't often necessary. If I had something without
rotational symmetry I would probably use a spirit level on the part...
When I have considered doing it I have thought in
Greetings all;
Since I've never put a home switch on a rotary, and this new gantry comes
with a motorized (belt drive, quite but puny holding powrrotary, how
have some of you done that? I have an image of a roller lever riding a
small projection, running it at high speed to find the closed
On 03/12/2019 10:25 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Here, I don't think I communicated that my problems were in the math to
properly space the slots the ATS-667's were nestled in. Purely a
mechanical mistake in carving the slots they hide in. I didn't grok that
half a tooth spacing was actually 180
