Re: [Emc-users] Pico Sytems UPC and a Hardinge CHNC

2012-01-24 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: but I used the paradigm of a switch closure at the time I did the installation, after giving it more thought and referring to: http://pico-systems.com/images/univstep.png it looks as if the inputs already go to an opto-isolator on the UPC anyway. It may be that a

Re: [Emc-users] Pico Sytems UPC and a Hardinge CHNC

2012-01-24 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 12:26 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: Kirk Wallace wrote: but I used the paradigm of a switch closure at the time I did the installation, after giving it more thought and referring to: http://pico-systems.com/images/univstep.png it looks as if the inputs already go to

[Emc-users] Pico Sytems UPC and a Hardinge CHNC

2012-01-23 Thread Ed
Someone out there probably has worked this out. Hardinge uses home and limit switches and the turret encoder that use a pullup to 12 Volts. The UPC uses isolated 5 Volts for the input ports. The big question is how did you interface these? Current limited opto-isolators come to mind, small

Re: [Emc-users] Pico Sytems UPC and a Hardinge CHNC

2012-01-23 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 20:55 -0500, Ed wrote: Someone out there probably has worked this out. Hardinge uses home and limit switches and the turret encoder that use a pullup to 12 Volts. The UPC uses isolated 5 Volts for the input ports. The big question is how did you interface these?