That is why I disconnected the limits from the drives. Six one way - a half dozen the other. On Feb 12, 2013 10:52 AM, "andy pugh" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12 February 2013 16:40, dave <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 10:16 -0600, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > > >> When an A or B hard limit is tripped and the drive is shut > >> off the head is tilted so far the weight causes the head to keep moving > and > >> the pinion gear will drop off the end of the rack with an accompanying > loud > >> clunk when the head drops to the frame. > > > Stuart I must say you have an interesting take on 'fun'. ;-) > > No stop on the rack to prevent it spooling off? > > Dropping off the rack might be seen as a good feature, it means that > in the case of a servo runaway all that happens is that the pinion > runs off the rack and spins free, rather than sitting there on the end > stop until the expensive smoke leaks out. > > -- > atp > If you can't fix it, you don't own it. > http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer > Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 > and get the hardware for free! Learn more. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
