On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 16:13 -0400, Doug Pollard wrote: > With running slow feed rates and likely low loads on motors it is very > unlikely I would have any problem dropping steps on a motor so I am > thinking just to use stepper motors. I would like to put cnc on my > little lathe as well and there I would need and encoder on the spindle > and as of now I have no idea what that entails.
This was a 90 cycle, 360ppr with index encoder I added to my lathe. http://members.shaw.ca/swstuff/spindle-encoder.html cheers -- ===================================================================== Lawrence Glaister VE7IT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1462 Madrona Drive Nanoose Bay, B.C. http://members.shaw.ca/swstuff Canada V9P 9C9 http://gspy.sourceforge.net ===================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
