On 24 April 2010 23:33, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote: > Many lathes have better access to > the bull gear, so it might be easier to do. > > See http://pico-systems.com/bridge_spindle.html > for some pictures and additional info. > > The sensors are about $6 each at Digi-Key, and are intended for use > inside automotive transmissions.
Which brings to mind another way to do it, which is to simply buy a scrap gear (any gear will do, basically) and use that as an encoder ring with that type of sensor (My lathe has no gears in the head, though I think I could have used sensors like yours inside the milling head.) -- atp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
