There would be no need for a DRO and EMC to display from the same source. I have a CNC mill and use the CNC display as a DRO when manually milling. I also will use the MDI to move to a spot then use the handwheel to drill a hole if there is but one to drill.
John On 1 Feb 2008 at 16:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a different idea. > > Why not tap in to the signal from the encoders themselves? If this is > glass scales with proper quadrature output it should be simple to read > this signals by a cheap card? There is nothing that says the > quadrature signals can't be read by both EMC and the DRO main unit. > > I plan to do this myself. I also bought a far eastern DRO with glass > scales and hope to be able to tap in to the signals being transmitted > by the scales. I have a Universal Stepper Card with quadrature inputs. > At the same time it is quite nice to have the DRO for manual milling. > > Does anyone have a good reason for not doing this? I should possibly > use optoisolators though, right? > > Anders ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
