> This was a Anilam LatheMate with a dead Crusader M L controller. The X > and Y had 625 ppr encoders and 5mm pitch ball screws, giving me 12700 > counts per inch. I'm not sure how many counts the spindle encoder has > until I get it connected and read a few revolutions. I would like to > use the 3rd or 4th Mesa encoder inputs for the spindle but I'm not sure > if that's compatible with what EMC needs for lathe threading. > Sure it is. That's why we have the HAL. You can basicly use any encoder counter and connect that to the lathe threading input. You need an encoder with an index slot though, to sync passes. If you don't have one, you can probably trick it by generating a fake index pulse once every n-counts (where n is a full revolution). But this isn't the most clean way to do it.
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