looks good! are you running smooth-stepper or some other controller, or just right off the parallel port from mach3? also, Hoptodes' question also- encoder resolution? how are you controlling the VFD? is it just pmw 0-10v, how is it so well synchronized? thanks for posting this!
OK; but if the rotations of the spindle are being picked up by a sensor, and that is being used to control the rate of horizontal passage, then (a) I wasn't sure mach3 could do that, and (b) how many index pulses are sent per revolution: is one sufficient?
looks good! are you running smooth-stepper or some other controller, or just right off the parallel port from mach3? also, Hoptodes' question also- encoder resolution? how are you controlling the VFD? is it just pmw 0-10v, how is it so well synchronized? thanks for posting this!
arbaiwu 1 year ago
What lathe is being used?
Is the thread form being generated by software gearing or by actual gears?
Nice example. Thanks.
Heptode 4 years ago
@Heptode Well, the tag says Mach3 that says
cnc to me.
atvheads 1 year ago
@atvheads
OK; but if the rotations of the spindle are being picked up by a sensor, and that is being used to control the rate of horizontal passage, then (a) I wasn't sure mach3 could do that, and (b) how many index pulses are sent per revolution: is one sufficient?
Thanks.
Heptode 1 year ago